Blogger question! (if you don't use blogger.com, don't bother)

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Thought some of you good people might be familiar with the Blogger weblog service. I've just opened a blog for me, my friends and other interested (not likely). But how do I post links? I've written them a couple of days ago, but they haven't answered ... Sorry if I am bothering you, but I'm getting desperate ...

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey, we've all gotta start somewhere.

http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Guide/

You'll find your answer about halfway down the page.

― Harold Media (kenan), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 20:14 (twenty-one years ago)

K, you do realize that HTML guide was written by Dave RAGGETT??

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 20:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Is he related to Ned?

― Harold Media (kenan), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean that as a serious question. He could be. Ned? Where are you when we need you?

― Harold Media (kenan), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I have a suspicion that J doesn't mean how to do the < a href= > thing, but to provide links to a certain post? In which case you'll see a time at the end of an entry (e.g. 2:42pm) which is actually the permalink.

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 21:15 (twenty-one years ago)

sorry if my question wasn't too precise. i was thinking: how do i place a sorta permanent list of links to sites i like? a list that can bee seen eg. in the left hand side of the screen?

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 21:30 (twenty-one years ago)

that's more complicated, but I'd be happy to help. You basically have to find the correct place in the html of your template and post the list there:

< a href = "LINK" > LINK < /a > < br />
< a href = "LINK" > LINK < /a > < br />

And so forth, all spaces should be taken out, of course.
If you're using one of the new Blogger templates, you'll probably see a < div > that's called "links" or "menu" or "sidebar" or something, and you can put the list in there. Try playing around with putting it in different places until you have it where you want it. But yeah, unless Blogger has some special link management feature, that's all you need to do.

― Harold Media (kenan), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 21:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Yep some of the readymade templates have a sidebar just for this, and the code makes it pretty clear where you put your links in. Having said that it doesnt hurt to familiarise yourself with both html and css, so you can tweak the code and know why it works. I found bloggers templates a great way to learn css.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 21:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Just checked my template, and it's a little complicated but not difficult at all.

Near the start of the template's html, it'll have something like this:

body{margin:0px 0px 0px 0px;font-family:arial, helvetica;background-color:#C3CFE5}
#main{margin:20px;border:1px solid #000;background-color:#fff;padding:0px 0px 15px 15px}
#Title{font-size:43px;padding-left:0px;padding-top:10px;text-transform:none}
#Description{padding:0px;padding-top:10px;font-size:12px;font-weight:normal}
#menu{border-left:1px solid #000;border-bottom:1px solid #000;float:right;padding:10px;width:160px;margin:0px 0px 10px 10px;background-color:#eee}
p{margin:0px 10px 10px 10px}
#links{padding:0px;padding-top:10px;font-size:12px;font-weight:normal}

A lot of #'s signs followed by some code, that create a section that's named "links" or "menu" or whatever. Once you've created the #xxxx thing, go to where you see a lot of < div id="xxxx" > and put your links thing there. In my case, it would be < div id="links" >

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 21:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Once you've created the #xxxx thing, go to where you see a lot of < div id="xxxx" > and put your links thing there. In my case, it would be < div id="links" >

That's a little confusing, though, Leee. You don't need to create anything. The styles at the top that you just posted *already* define and position the links bar that he wants. DON'T SDO ANYTHING TO THE CODE UP TOP! Just find the DIV with the ID of "links" and stick it there.

― Harold Media (kenan), Wednesday, 25 August 2004 23:57 (twenty-one years ago)

At least for my template, I had to add the #links and all the junk following manually (I don't know that blogger's other templates have a links style), and I was just c/p'ing what I currently had.

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Thursday, 26 August 2004 00:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, ok. Well, then "menu" is the DIV you want, and, like I said, play around with putting the list of links in different places within the menu.

― Harold Media (kenan), Thursday, 26 August 2004 00:02 (twenty-one years ago)

thanks, guys, i'll see if i can figure it out. i'm no html prodigy, although i think i know what it's about. it's funny though, that they don't just made a function that enables you to put in your links in a dummies kind of way.

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Thursday, 26 August 2004 09:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I found out! Thanks, thanks and thanks again, Harold, Trayce and Lee!

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Thursday, 26 August 2004 09:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I have a question: how can I get that new Blogger toolbar to stop covering up my title and just rest on top of everything like it's supposed to? I fear this will involve template fiddling, won't it?

― Archel (Archel), Thursday, 26 August 2004 09:51 (twenty-one years ago)

And now I'm at it: Does anyone know how I can determine the size of the writing in the toolbar? and how to make an email link? (sorry for my HTML stupidity!).

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Thursday, 26 August 2004 12:13 (twenty-one years ago)

for an email link you use < mailto:[email addy here] > i think...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Thursday, 26 August 2004 12:19 (twenty-one years ago)

You mean < a href="mailto:[address]" > ... < /a >

― caitlin (caitlin), Thursday, 26 August 2004 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Jay, do you just want to make your font bigger? (I'm not quite clear what you mean by toolbar, since I know that blogger's implemented some new interfaces and I haven't blogged recently.) If you just want to make bigger words, you do <font size="+X"> where X is any number (you can also make smaller font by subbing - for +) -- also, don't forget to close it with </font>

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Thursday, 26 August 2004 20:52 (twenty-one years ago)

you are my guys! now, how do i make an empty line below something i've written? (i know i am an illiterate who should attend html summer school)

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Friday, 27 August 2004 08:14 (twenty-one years ago)

thank you caitlin, my (basic in the first place) html is a bit rusty...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Friday, 27 August 2004 08:35 (twenty-one years ago)

< P > but without the spaces.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 27 August 2004 08:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I love y'all.

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Friday, 27 August 2004 08:40 (twenty-one years ago)

You can also just make a blank line with < br />< br /> (ie, two line breaks). Just typing < p > on its own is supposed to be a Bad Thing nowadays - you're only supposed to use it at the start of a paragraph, and put a matching < /p > at the end of the paragraph.

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 27 August 2004 09:33 (twenty-one years ago)

This is true, of course. *slaps own wrist*

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 27 August 2004 09:35 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

So I want to have links to different categories of posts on my blogger. How can I do this without manually picking out my posts and then monkeying around with the template?

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 05:04 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm not sure blogger.com caters for this. You would need to mess about with the blogs web server manually, so unless you are using your own ftp you're pretty screwed to begin with.

maybe other blog services can do this for you?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 11:28 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...

my html skillz are virtually none - how do i replace my blog name with an image? is possible?

― jermaine (jnoble), Monday, 21 March 2005 21:27 (twenty-one years ago)

'Course. I forget how Blogger template tags look nowadays, but you usually can just find where the title would normally be, maybe marked as a Blogger tag instead of the title itself (like, "$BloggerBlogName" or something), and put the image there instead, probably with a link back to the home page (like, "< a href = "/" >/path/to/image.jpg< /a >").

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Monday, 21 March 2005 21:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Find the bit in the template that says:

<h1 id="blog-title">

Hectic

</h1>

and replace it with:

Try using imageshack.us for image hosting.

Hope this works.

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Monday, 21 March 2005 21:57 (twenty-one years ago)

great, thanks! about to try it out! but one more q while i have your attention: can i include alpha channels/masks? or do i have to fake it?

― jermaine (jnoble), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Not AFAIK, web browsers only support gif, jpg and png image formats, none of which support channels or layers. Ie if yr pic is in native photoshop format or some such, it'll have to be flattened and saved as jpg/gif to work online.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:13 (twenty-one years ago)

okay, problems:

can't find this, or any equivalent:

refers to the browser headline.

where i changed the font size of my current, textual title:

----------------------------------------------- */
#blog-title {
margin:0 0 .5em;
font:340%/1.4em Georgia,Serif;
color:#353;
}
#blog-title a {
color:#353;
text-decoration:none;
}
#description {
margin:0 0 1.75em;
font:250%;
color:#996;
}

― jermaine (jnoble), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:45 (twenty-one years ago)

oh yeah, missing html absorbtion. i can't find THIS:

[h1 id="blog-title"]

and THIS:

[title][$BlogPageTitle$][/title]

refers to the browser headline.

― jermaine (jnoble), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:51 (twenty-one years ago)

wait, i think i figure it out.

― jermaine (jnoble), Monday, 21 March 2005 23:56 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...

Has anyone else noticed the new icon on the Post screen, it seems you can now upload images to their blogspot servers. Or am I mistaken?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 24 June 2005 08:40 (twenty years ago)

Yep, seems to work.

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Friday, 24 June 2005 17:01 (twenty years ago)

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