Customizing blog entries page

Instead of having my blog entries page just appear as a headline and summary of my blog entries, I'd like to have this page serve as my main page, so that all entries can be seen in their entirety, along with photos and design from the entries page.
In other words, less clicking around to "read more". I want the blog page to have everything so it's scrollable. Is there a way to do this?

Exactely!!!
But How?!!!

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I want to insert a picture into a body of text in a blog entry page.

This has me stumped. I did it once but cannot do it again.
How can I place a picture into a body of text? I have a print-out from the HELP menu but it is not clear. It talks of inline and fixed objects. I think I want a fixed object -- one that does not move along with the text as the text grows/moves along the page incrementally.
Because I am working with the photo on a blog entry page I cannot do the Choose Insert > Choose > Select the file, and click insert. I cannot because (1) The picture has to stay on the page in that Magic Frame, and (2) the choosing capability of the iWeb program does not enable someone to go inside the iWeb program and land on a certain page.
I am working on the blog page. Instead of a tiny little picture of a doll at the top of the page, I want to raise all of the text and put the little doll's head inside the text body.
I am so stumped. The instructions are not clear at all.
Lorna in Southern California
Fri, Sep 15, 2006 11:52 PM PST

Well i did exactly what your trying to do...go to
http://www.mac-switch.com
and view the blog "power button shortcut"
Go to the section you want to add the photo
to...Click "insert" then "choose" and choose the file
you want to put in there.
Good luck
Rob.
Hi Rob......
You know, I went to that Power Button Shortcut blog and for the life of me, your point went flying over my brains -- I just did not get what point you were making to me. The Power Button thing was not what I was trying to do. I was trying to put a PICTURE of a doll's head inside a body of text. That means I had to get text wrap to kick in, and..........
But the bottomest line is, I finally did it. I don't know how I did it because I was in a state of just clicking around, trying to move text. It's a long story to duplicate, but I went through several steps and since it was just desperation moves I was doing, I don't have a set of notes to go by for the next time.
The hard part, or one of them, was to get the Text Inspector to make he Text Wrap workable. For a long time , no matter what I did, the Text Wrap option remained greyed out. It was maddening. Then for reasons that I cannot recreate in an orderly fashion, I got the Text Wrap option to get bolded out, and thus an option.
Thank you for trying. BTW, I think your pages look wonderful and very slick (which I think is the right look for what you want to do with your website).
Lorna in Southern California

Blog entry page won't publish from iWeb and MobilMe....

For some reason my blog entry page wont publish on my website. The rest of the site does, including my blog and archive, but not the new page. I do see the new page on the blog page, but when you click on it the new page has no text or pictures. When I published (uploaded) everything went as usual, I just can't see that page published. Any ideas?
wordpicnerd

Have you tried the File->Publish All to Mobileme menu option? That often will jump start a belligerent page.
OT

Image from blog entry page not showing up on 'home' page of blog

My first blog entry went well. I created a blog first page, then created an entry, and dragged a picture to that entry. I saved, published, and all looked great. Even the comment area worked. But when I created a second entry page, and dragge a picture to it, and saved, the photo is not showing up on that first page of the blog, the one that reads like a list only with a picture and teaser part of the entry...See http://web.me.com/brendatharp1/brendatharpblog/OnTheRoad/OnTheRoad.html
The entry listing is there on the first page, and when you click on the title link, it takes you to the entry page and the photos are there. I noticed that on the first page, the Sept 13th entry with photo is inside a text box of sorts - this was the layered paper template I used and then modified. Dbl-clicking to make that box interactive shows the black floating box for dealing with the placement of the photo in that list; but that box only relates to that one photo from the 13th. If I drag and drop the 15th's photo there, it just sits over the text and doesn't interact. AND I didn't have to do that with the first entry. Any ideas out there? Thanks much, Brenda.

Does this thread help http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1711038&tstart=15
I have experienced this and it was because I removed the placeholder and just added the image on the entry page. I duplicate blog entries and delete content to add new stuff so don't have to reformat every time, if you do that don't remove the image just add on the top - it should replace the previous image. Hope this helps, it is frustrating at times but the more you learn the easier it becomes.

File extension missing for new blog entry pages

I have a blog and have created new entries, but I can't publish "because the file does not have a file extension." (I clicked on the publish button and also tried in the menu "Publish to Mac.com." Neither works.
I thought whatever was necessary to connect a new entry to my blog was created automatically. I'm not even sure what a file extension is. What is it?
In the Site Inspector I can do nothing. All possible commands are grayed out. Maybe I'm not supposed to make a hyperlink for a file.
Thanks for any help you can give. Edify

Will I have to clear the cache every time I want to upload new material?
you don't have to clear the cache to upload the material, you sometimes have to clear the browser's cache to see your new page, for the old page in the cache may prevent your browser from displaying the new page properly.
BTW, the same is true for any visitor to your site - if you change your page frequently and find that you have to empty the cache, then any visitor to your site also will experience the same problem and should know that he/she should empty the cache if the page looks funny.

Blog entry didn't show up on blog summary page. ¿Por qué?

RE: Blog
Last night I wrote a blog entry, but the first few sentences did NOT show up on the blog summary page. I previously had set the blog entry length to be short (toggled far to the left), but there is a difference between a short length and NO length at all.
Why do you suppose this happened?
INFORMATION: Prior to writing the blog entry I was having difficulty with the picture not showing up on the blog entry page, and in trying to edit it and move text around I might have messed up some registration lines, or LINES. Could that have had an effect? I must say that of all the things involved in iWeb, this Blog feature has given me the most problems and made me the angriest. Just thinking about it right now has created a tight knot in my chest.
Lorna in Southern California

Go back to your main blog summary page in iWeb. Open
the Inspector to the RSS tab and slide the text
excert slider to show ALL (all the way to the right).
Does ANY of your blog text show up in this
particular entry?
.......... Lorna says ................................................
Well, Inspector Tseng, I toggled to the *Show All* position, and heheheh, none of the blog entry showed on the blog summary page.
If not, then perhaps you entered
your text in a different text box....did you add a
text box to the page? If it does, then maybe you
have some preceding spaces in the text box? Or
maybe you inserted a photo into the text box
inadvertently?
.......... Lorna says ................................................
James, last night I was having so many dang blasted flippin cockamamie problems with the picture that I moved a bunch of things around and recall making a new text box and typing into it. Grrrr.
I am going to return there and copy and paste and delete that page. I feel very bad that I cannot master the blog after so much stupid time. I also think that the blog needs to be more idiot proofed so that normally OK actions in other iWeb scenarios don't end up as yet another disaster on the ash heap of broken iWeb dreams.
Lorna in Southern California

My main blog page can't find its entry pages

When I make iWeb blog entry pages, the main blog page can't find them. It says "Error. The file cannot be found." (even if I just use the placeholder "Blue bird day" page without changing it!) I'm dragging my image onto the placeholder image on the (Modern) Blog entry page but the main Blog pag can't find it or even the placeholder image on an unmodified new blog entry page. I am publishing to a file and ftp-ing it up to my ISP but I get the "file cannot be found" message even on my own hard drive before uploading. What's wrong?
The blog page of my site is:
http://www.christopherrauschenberg.com/Site/Blog/Blog.html
G5 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Well, not sure of a complete solution for you, but I have found a specific problem.
From the main blog page. . . the link it gives for New York is
http://www.christopherrauschenberg.com/Site/Blog/429B84A8-BD4B-4B30-8A66-017811D F742E.html
However, in checking the directory, looks like that is labeled instead as
http://www.christopherrauschenberg.com/Site/Blog/429B84A8-BD4B-4B30-_124C76.html
That would explain why it couldn't be found.
A little further checking or your root directory shows similar mismatches between various page index files and the folders containing data.
Have you published and uploaded portions at a time? Is ossible after changes we made that all changes were not published.
It might be best to clean out the FTP folder, republish your whole site from iWeb to a folder on your computer and re-FTP it to your site (making sure to enter correct url of your site on the publish screen as well).
(if you think I helped in any way, I'd appreciate it if you could mark my reply as either "solved" or "helpful" using the little buttons in the title bar of the reply. Manythanx! )
Good luck!

Iweb help - blog entries problem

Hello,
I am trying to create a highly customized blog in iweb '08 and so far am doing very well, all the pages look perfect over all browsers however i have tried to edit the blog entries page but am having grave difficulty, i have set the page attributes to 1300 high and 1300 wide copied over the design but now i cant move the generated blog content title and time/date above half way up the page. This is highly annoying does anyone have any idea why this might be happening?
I removed all the content from my 'sidebar' and it let me move the content up the page as soon as i put the sidebar back it wont work
Thanks
Richard Howell

it would help if we could see the messed up pages. otherwise we can only guess what's happening. my guess is that you have somehow dropped the content into the header making the header really big and thus why you can't move the blog all the way up. a way to check is to show the layout. and see if there's a grey line above where the blog is sitting.

Can't edit Blog Entries

Hi,
When I open iWeb, I can edit the other pages in my site, but the Blog Entries page either won't load, or will load partially. I can't see past entries or edit new entries.
If I can see the Add Entry button, and I click it, iWeb crashes.
Any help would be very much appreciated.
Thanks!

I have seen a similar problem today.
We have our blogs hosted at wordpress.com. In Contribute 6.5 (never before having touched the blogs in it) I went to add my blogs, entered my wordpress login details. Contribute spent a bit of time loading stuff. Then I had to go to lunch and shut Contribute down without editing anything.
When I got back I was informed by my colleagues that all of out blogs (which they had subscribed to be email) had sent them emails that were essentially empty. At the time I assumed that they got them because they are also blog admins.
On our test blog (which is hidden) I did a test post. It posted OK but when I tried to edit both an existing post and the post I had just done Contribute responded that I did not have a connection to that site. I noticed that the domain had changed from http:// to https:// - I've looked for a way to tell Contribute to see these as the same but can't find any.
Then we got feedback from a customer that he'd got the emails as well. So it appears that ANY activity by Contribute is triggering wordpress to send these updates. And from what I'm seeing now it does it whenever I connect with ANY of the blogs.

How to make the date disappear on the blog summary page?

Hi,
I have read thru the message on this forum and can't seem to figure out how to hide or make the date disappear on the blog summary page. I can do it on the blog entry pages by turning the color opacity to 0.
I have included my page here:http://www.quantumhealthcentre.com/www.quantumhealthcentre.com/Services/Services .html
Also, if anyone knows how to delete the archive page or inactivate it on my website, please let me know.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Peggy

http://www.wyodor.net/_Movies/HideDateBlogEntry.mov
http://www.wyodor.net/_Movies/HideDateBlogArchive.mov

How to change the color of blog titles on blog archive page?

So while I'm waiting for apple to fix iweb's publishing problem, I might as well do a revamp of my site in the meantime.
One thing I've been itching to change, but can't is the color of the blog titles on the main blog archive page? They show up in red, even when I change the color on the actually blog entry page to blue. Can anyone please help?
http://web.mac.com/stephenjames716/iWeb/home/blog/blog.html
Thanks,
Steve

All of this style information is contained in the .css files that iWeb publishes. Here is a very informative introduction to editing these files...
http://www.rowan-cottage.co.uk/Site/CSS%20in%20iWeb.html

Help! New Blog Summary Page titles are publishing in red!

Hi. All of a sudden, for no apparent reason, my new Blog titles, and the "Read more..." link on the cover/summary page, are publishing in red rather than black to the folder. The older ones still publish in black. It's doing it on two separate Blog pages. Does anyone know how to fix this? Please

Hi, thanks for your reply. I don't see anything signifying a default color in the hyperlink section of the inspector. The titles have always shown as black on the blog entry page in iweb, and in the blog summary page the titles and "Read more..." have always shown as red, with the rest of the text in the entry being black. And then all the text has always gone to black after publishing until now. As an experiment I changed the color of one of the titles to green, and it still published in red.

Photos on blogs entries

I've successfully created many blog entries. I always use the standard new blog entry and put a photo in it. Twice, I have gone back after publishing and changed the photo on the blog entry page. After I publish though, the main blog page never updates with the new photo. As a result, two of my entry pages out of about a total of 30 have a different photo then what appears on the main blog page. Is there a way to correct this?

The photo on a blog page is dropped into a placeholder. When you changed the photo you probably deleted it and dragged in a new one. By doing this you deleted the placeholder.
Go to another "correct" blog page, highlight the photo in the placeholder, copy it and paste it to the page you are trying to repair. Now you have a placeholder and can drag a new photo in to replace the one that's there.

Rearrange Blog Entries

Hey Folks,
I'm putting together a faux blog as a companion to a novel I just finished. Each blog entry references a chapter in the book. After creating the second blog entry, I realized that on the main blog page the last entry would show up as the FIRST entry on that page, thus giving away the ending of my book!
Is there to a way to rearrange the blog entry pages?
Thanks!

Bonjour
Try Cyclosaurus code :
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7602984&#7602984

Blog Summary Page Loses Formatting of Entries

Why does the main blog page dump any italic or bold formatting on the original entry page?? If I "Read More" and go to the original entry, all my italics show up fine... But the main page, from which I'd think most people will read my blog, is all without any formatting.
Any solutions, or simply a quirk of 1.0?
Quite annoying. Definitely one of the many "1.0" things I'm living with in iWeb right now.
multiple Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Yes, you can drag it right into the text area and then set the wrap for it in the text dialog box. You can even set how closely it wraps.
Another cool little thing I found while playing, it wraps around the object according to opacity! If you place an object so that part of it has below 50% opacity and part has above, only the part over 50% will have text wrap around it.

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