Tag—you're it! The game of "Tag" has always been popular, and now people who played it as children are reliving their misspent youth on the web by tagging everything in sight. Flickr lets members tag their photos with keywords. Technorati lets bloggers use their entry categories as tags. The "social bookmarking" service del.icio.us uses tags to classify and group shared bookmarks. In each case such "related" tags serve to offer the reader the option to find "more like this", whether it be a photo or an article. iBlog users can get in on the act too...
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It's highly likely your blog contains links to external sites, as well as to other pages within your own site. iBlog gives you the option to open any hyperlink in a new window. It can be useful for users to know in advance whether the link they are about to follow will open a new window and/or take them "offsite". Here is one way to provide this information by applying a CSS rule to your iBlog stylesheet...
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On the one hand there's iBlog, a "rough edges" application that reads RSS feeds and generates a blog composed of static web pages with no add-on tools (commenting, counters, search, etc.). It has a small user base and limited on-the-ground support but it is supremely easy to use. On the other hand, there are a number of "specialist" applications that have cared out a niche, integrating with well-established and comprehensive server-side solutions like WordPress and Movable Type. Frustrated by iBlog's inconsistencies and poor support for web standards, the time has come to consider making the transition to an alternative solution that meets my expectations. Here, I look at WordPress...
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If your blog has a fixed-width stylesheet, what do you do when you have an image that is too wide for its container? If you are using iBlog 1.4.1 to drag-and-drop images into the RTF editor, you don't have the option to scale or size-restrict the occasional wide image by styling it directly e.g. <img src="" style="width:450px" />. You do, however, have the option to style a div container using the HTMLCode tag. So how does this help?
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Are you prepared to throw away the default iBlog templates and stylesheets to build from scratch? Here's how you might do it using version 1.4.1.
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The "new look" bioneural.blog for December 2004 is here—and soon other content under the bioneural.net umbrella will get the same treatment. But first there is some debugging to do. Built on a Mac using BBEdit and the (apparently standards-compliant) default OS X browser, when viewed using Safari most of the issues are relatively minor. Internet Explorer and Firefox don't play nice, however.
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