http://blog.lib.umn.edu/messn006/classblogsworkshopparttwo/ a University Libraries workshop en-us 2005-03-28T19:09:47-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/messn006/classblogsworkshopparttwo/018572.html Templates help you control the design and layout of your blog. If you want to customize the look of your blog, a good place to start is to try out one of the default templates that come with the MT... Template kilam002 2005-03-28T19:09:47-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/messn006/classblogsworkshopparttwo/018662.html Finding the necessary files: 1. Login to your Movable Type system (UThink, at the U of M) 2. Select the blog you want to edit (if you have more than one) 3. In the menu on the left hand side... Template kilam002 2005-03-27T22:50:45-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/messn006/classblogsworkshopparttwo/018667.html Types of files 1. Index Templates Index templates are the files which control the appearance and content of the index files in the blog, including the home page. We will deal with these files as they are the most commonly... Template kilam002 2005-03-26T22:58:32-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/messn006/classblogsworkshopparttwo/020749.html One simple thing many people want to do on their blog home page is to add some new links on the sidebar. We'll use this task as an example of how to modify the main index. From the main Templates... Template messn006 2005-03-25T11:28:20-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/messn006/classblogsworkshopparttwo/018580.html The stylesheet template is the CSS (cascading style sheet) file that governs the colors, font types and sizes, and all other style elements of your weblog. The default name of the file is styles-site.css, but you can choose any file... Template kilam002 2005-03-24T23:51:26-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/messn006/classblogsworkshopparttwo/018761.html Movable Type uses CSS elements defined in your weblog's stylesheet template to control font sizes as well as other style factors. The following graphic indicates which default stylesheet classes correspond to which heading and text elements in the default Gettysburg... Template kilam002 2005-03-23T23:15:40-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/messn006/classblogsworkshopparttwo/018763.html To give a sense of how you can use the stylesheet to change the appearance of your site, we'll go through a simple example. Suppose you want to change the color of the banner and the font of the title... Template kilam002 2005-03-22T23:58:18-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/messn006/classblogsworkshopparttwo/019160.html Email notifications is a way of "subscribing" to the blog, to have new content of the blog delivered to you. Notifications are sent to subscribees every time a new post is made to the blog. This is convenient as you... Notifications kilam002 2005-03-15T23:02:02-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/messn006/classblogsworkshopparttwo/018768.html 1) By the author a) Login to the blog. b) From the menu on the left hand bar choose "Notifications." c) Add the email addresses of all the people to whom you want to notify updates through email. Once this... Notifications kilam002 2005-03-14T00:29:27-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/messn006/classblogsworkshopparttwo/018769.html 2) By the user a) The author of the blog needs to include a small text input field on the blog home page. b) Here readers can subscribe themselves to the blog by adding their email address in the text... Notifications kilam002 2005-03-13T00:33:18-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/messn006/classblogsworkshopparttwo/020668.html The actual notification is sent out only if you turn on the option while posting a message. This is done manually on the "Edit Entry" page which displays after creating a new entry. Near the bottom of this page there... Notifications messn006 2005-03-12T13:59:53-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/messn006/classblogsworkshopparttwo/018770.html RSS feeds, popularly known to stand for “Really Simple Syndication,” is an XML format specification designed to share news headlines and other web content between websites. Almost all popular news websites (like Yahoo) and blogs (like Slashdot) have RSS feeds... RSS kilam002 2005-03-05T00:49:06-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/messn006/classblogsworkshopparttwo/018771.html As an example, consider the web site Yahoo News. They publish an RSS feed. This is essentially an XML format text file which contains static and dynamic information about your website. The feed is either in RSS 1.0 , 2.0... RSS kilam002 2005-03-04T00:52:11-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/messn006/classblogsworkshopparttwo/018772.html 1. Download the RSS parser 2. Parse the RSS feed and store in a local object 3. Display the feed on your website In UThink, look for the small link saying “Syndicate this Site (XML)” at the bottom of the... RSS kilam002 2005-03-03T01:01:46-06:00 http://blog.lib.umn.edu/messn006/classblogsworkshopparttwo/019695.html Site statistics are a common tool used for blogs all over the web. They give you information like page hits, page views etc. But if you need more comprehensive statistics, like the IP address of the people who have visited... Site statistics kilam002 2005-03-02T19:32:04-06:00