I signed up for flickr so it will be easier to post pictures. This is one of John by the Liberty Bell during our trip to Philadelphia in December 2005.
Categories: Pictures, Family
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Showing posts with label blogging. Show all posts
Sunday, February 05, 2006
Wednesday, January 25, 2006
Layout For This Site
I have been working on the layout for this site and using it as a way to learn more about HTML and CSS. The CSS stylesheet for this site now resides on my Geocities website. The links to the Excel Tips and Sheet Music point you to the Geocities site.
I am happy with the site enough to put it out there, but will continue to tweak it. I am interested in comments on the design.
Categories: blogging, internet
I am happy with the site enough to put it out there, but will continue to tweak it. I am interested in comments on the design.
Categories: blogging, internet
Technorati
I registered with Technorati which is a blog search engine. Maybe this will point some people towards this blog. I need to go now and think of some interesting things to write about.
Categories: blogging, internet
Categories: blogging, internet
Friday, January 13, 2006
Using del.icio.us Tags as Categories
After messing around with categories I have decided to go with this method from Fresblog. I mentioned this method before. The method I tried first ended up being too much work, because all the links in the sidebar had to be hand-coded. This technique uses a del.icio.us account to categorize the entries. I also found a JavaScript snippet that keeps an updated list of the categories in the sidebar.
Categories: blogging, internet
Categories: blogging, internet
Thursday, January 05, 2006
Creating Categories in Blogger
Blogger does not offer any native way to categorize blog posts. After a little research I found a couple of work-arounds. One was to use deli.cio.us to save each post as a favorite and categorize them there. Another, simplier way is to use the google blogsearch feature.
The first step is to decide where to place the category. One option is to place it in the post title (Music: Playing MP3s or Playing MP3s (Music)). The problem with this is the category names need to short so they do not clutter up the post titles. Doing this creates more generic categories that will return some unrelated items.
I created a template for new posts that gives me the ability to categorize the post before I start writing. I used the following code in the template:
<p class="category">Category: </p>
I place the category after the colon in the above. In the template I assigned the category class of the p tag to be smaller than the rest of the text make it look like it is a built-in feature.
In the sidebar there is a link for each category that searches my blog for that name.
Categories: blogging, internet
The first step is to decide where to place the category. One option is to place it in the post title (Music: Playing MP3s or Playing MP3s (Music)). The problem with this is the category names need to short so they do not clutter up the post titles. Doing this creates more generic categories that will return some unrelated items.
I created a template for new posts that gives me the ability to categorize the post before I start writing. I used the following code in the template:
<p class="category">Category: </p>
I place the category after the colon in the above. In the template I assigned the category class of the p tag to be smaller than the rest of the text make it look like it is a built-in feature.
In the sidebar there is a link for each category that searches my blog for that name.
Categories: blogging, internet
BlogRoll
I spent most of the day today learning how to customize the Blogger template. Blogger does not have any automated support to manage/update/listing links in the sidebar.
Initailly I used a piece of code genreated by Bloglines that created a list of the blogs I am subscribed to. There were two problems. I was not able to format the resulting links to look like the others on the page and there are a lot of blogs I monitor that are not often updated. I did not like the long list cluttering up the sidebar. I removed the list of links and placed one called "Blogs I Read" so only the interested will see the list and I will be automatically updated as I add and delete blogs fromt he list.
If I want to add other "permenent" links I can code them by hand.
Categories: blogging, internet
Initailly I used a piece of code genreated by Bloglines that created a list of the blogs I am subscribed to. There were two problems. I was not able to format the resulting links to look like the others on the page and there are a lot of blogs I monitor that are not often updated. I did not like the long list cluttering up the sidebar. I removed the list of links and placed one called "Blogs I Read" so only the interested will see the list and I will be automatically updated as I add and delete blogs fromt he list.
If I want to add other "permenent" links I can code them by hand.
Categories: blogging, internet
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