I got dragged out of bed this morning by the doorbell. It was a Jehovah’s Witness, he didn’t want to talk or get me to subscribe to his magazine, he just gave me a pamphlet. It seems to be about the end of false religion. I haven’t read it thoroughly yet, I may have something to say about it when I have. ;|
Mags’ cooking business site is nearly finished. 😀 It’s green which is not normally a colour I go for, it goes way back to childhood when I never wore green. That’s about the extent of my story but I think it’s looking good… Woah, actually it just crazy and with multiple posts the sidebar goes multiple as well. Turns out that only the posts go in between the Blogger tags. Helping Mags with her site has been a good Blogger learning experience for me. I love my WordPress but I’m glad to know a bit more about Blogger (apparently I didn’t know as much as I thought even though I used to use it… maybe I just forgot).
I also figured out a bit of a way to make categories for blogspot blogs. It’s a little bit lame because it doesn’t list the posts in your own site, it goes to Google Blogsearch. There is a way to do ones within your own blog’s template using javascript but I didn’t want to spend the time on that. My way (I’m sure other people thought of it before I did but I’ll just call it mine) is a hack from the Blogsearch forms that some people have in their sidebar. You just put your categories as links in the sidebar to http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?
bl_url=<$BlogURL$>&as_q=category&submit=Search You just need to change the search term Category. Then if you want your search to be really specific you can just write (in small letters if you want) and the bottom of your post “Filed under: Category”.
An example for this blog might be weevils.
In this whole process I changed my Blogger account over to Beta, mainly so I could check out the labels which serve as categories now for Blogger. Turns out I couldn’t check them out because you need to reformat your template to use their “customisable templates” feature. I’m sure it’s quite good once you do that but I didn’t have the time to play. I also discovered that Blogger is sneaky and realised that people had figured out how to hide the navbar at the top of their page. That bar is inserted by Blogger’s own CSS that is added on during publishing. They used to add it before your own CSS but now they add it afterwards so that it’s very difficult to override. I managed to hide it by hiding #navbar and iframe but I could get rid of the gap at the top of the page.
If you’ve survived my Blogger rantings you should go and say hi to Kelly at Full Metal Photographer. Thanks for renting here this last week!
