Tech Notes

Creating a Home Page

The home page has to be the last one created, so it will be shown first. Set number of post per page to 1.

Create a bunch of numbered pages, then create (or re-create) the home page. Use numbered pages for whatever you like. Change titles accordingly; URLs will still be based on the original titles (i.e. page numbers). Page numbers do not imply sequence. Next page / prev page become meaningless sequences. All navigation should be through links embedded in the parent page.

If you have to add more pages after creating the home page, you need to re-create the home page as the final step in the process. (Not necessary after updating existing pages.) Show home page in one window, create new post in new window, copy title and content across, save new post, delete old post.

Html in Title fields


Do not add html tags to title field. The tags work, e.g. <i></i> results in italics; however, the html tags are shown as straight text in the browser tab, at least in Firefox 2.0.0.14.

Text Flow

Enable float alignment: Allows image and text alignment options using the <div clear:both> tag.

Sidebar

Sidebar can contain text, html (i.e. just about anything), slideshow, still photo(s), video clips (YouTube) lists (of whatever), feeds, and links.

Don't want to show Profile, which contains my personal info, as blog owner.

Don't want to show list of blog entries. Provide links in each blog entry, and show one per page, so they act like individual web pages.

Page Elements and Support of CSS Style Tags

Text elements and link-list elements do not support font-size tags.

List elements support font-size tags, but not color tags.

style="text-align: center;" does not appear to work in any page elements.