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Tuesday, February 15
Add Additional Content to the HEAD area of your HTML
February 15, 2005 02:45PM (EST)
The Additional <HEAD> Content setting in your blog control panel allows you to specify additional HTML codes to go into the <HEAD> section of the HTML for all the pages in your weblog. This page will explain more about what kinds of content should and shouldn't be entered into this setting. more »
Saturday, February 5
Add Items to Your Favorites Lists
February 5, 2005 10:36PM (EST)
A quick guide to adding Items to Your Favorites Lists. more »
Create and Delete Categories
February 5, 2005 10:04PM (EST)
Using Categories helps you organize your blog and helps your readers find the content they are interested in. This guide will show you how to create and delete Categories. more »
Create and Delete Photo Albums
February 5, 2005 09:49PM (EST)
This article will show you how to create a new Photo Album and delete an existing Photo Album. more »
Edit Photo Album Settings
February 5, 2005 09:42PM (EST)
Each Photo Album has a corresponding Category Settings page that can
be used to edit or delete the Photo Album. Editing a Photo Album's properties
is covered in this section; deleting a Category is covered in detail in the
Creating and Deleting Photo Albums section. more »
Change the "Restricted" Status of Categories and Photo Albums
February 5, 2005 08:11PM (EST)
In this article, you will learn how to create a new restricted Photo Album or category, and modify the restrictions of existing Photo Albums or categories. more »
Give Readers Access to Restricted Categories and Photo Albums
February 5, 2005 07:27PM (EST)
Learn how to give your Readers access to secure (restricted) Photo Albums or categories. more »
Block Comments By IP Address
February 5, 2005 05:34PM (EST)
This guide will show you how to block readers who post inappropriate or offensive comments to your weblog. more »
Invite Users to be Readers, Posters or Administrators
February 5, 2005 01:45AM (EST)
How to invite Users to be Readers, Posters or Administrators of your weblog. more »
Add and Delete Users With Custom Permissions
February 5, 2005 01:25AM (EST)
This article explains how to add a user with custom Read and Post permissions on a per category basis. more »
Add and Delete Administrators
February 5, 2005 01:03AM (EST)
An Administrator is a user to whom complete control over a blog's operation has been granted by the Blog Owner. An Administrator can create and delete any posts, any files, and manage users. An Administrator has essentially the same privileges as the Blog Owner account. A blog owner might grant another user Administrator privileges in order to share maintenance and and administrative tasks. Or a blog owner might wish to create a new user account as an alternate identity or persona with which to post to the blog, and grant that user account Administrator privileges for convenience. more »
Friday, February 4
Add and Delete Trusted Posters
February 4, 2005 06:42PM (EST)
A Trusted Poster is a user who has permission to post articles to all categories of your blog. By adding a user as a Trusted Poster, you do not have to explicitly add permissions for them to post to categories that you might create in the future. It's a convenient way of allowing an author permission to post to all categories of your blog, even ones you have yet to create. more »
Add and Delete Trusted Readers
February 4, 2005 06:09PM (EST)
A Trusted Reader is a reader who has permission to view all of the categories of your blog, including any restricted categories. By adding a reader as a Trusted Reader, you do not have to explicitly add permissions for them for categories that you might create in the future. It's a convenient way of allowing access to all restricted areas of your blog, even ones you have yet to create. more »
Manage Permissions and Security for Groups
February 4, 2005 05:35PM (EST)
If you have a number of users to whom you wish to assign the same set of custom
permissions, Groups are very handy. Rather than having to assign a set of custom
permissions to a number of users, one at a time, you can create a Group with a
specific set of permissions and then assign people to that group. Users who belong
to a Group have that Group's permissions assigned to them. more »
Tuesday, November 2
Syndicate your Podcast
November 2, 2004 02:29AM (EST)
Podcasting is a growing phenomenon where blog publishers create audio programs and upload them to their weblogs as MP3 files. Readers can access the weblog and download the audio file for listening at their computer, or use software such as iPodder to download content each day and automatically synch their iPod with new podcasts. The concept of creating and syndicating audio content with the expectation that it will be consumed away from the computer is something that gives podcasts a unique flavor. BlogHarbor supports our users who are creating their own podcasts through our support of enclosures in RSS feeds. Attachments and EnclosuresThe BlogHarbor service allows you to add an attachment to your blog article, much in the same way that you would add an attachment to an email message. Attachments are a great way to permanently link a file to an article, and are especially useful when you are posting articles to restricted categories as the category restrictions apply to the attached files as well as the article. Additionally, when you attach a file to an article, your RSS feed is updated to include a link to the attached file; the element in the RSS feed is called an enclosure. The use of enclosures in your RSS feed allows iPodder programs to scan your RSS feeds on a regular basis and check for new files. When the iPodder finds a new enclosure in the RSS feed, it will automatically download the podcast. Creating a syndicated podcastCreating your podcast might be difficult, but syndicating it via your blog is easy. Just create a new article on your blog, and attach your podcast file in MP3 format to the article. That's it. Your RSS feed will automatically include the enclosure information for the attached file, which will be used by iPodder programs to download your podcasts.Using Categories for your PodcastWe recommend posting your podcasts into their own category, so you can use category-based RSS feeds to make it easy for your listeners to download your podcasts. By posting your podcasts to their own category, you make it easier for your listeners to download only your podcasts and not those pictures of you at the office party last week. So, for example, if you create a category called Podcasts in your blog at example.blogharbor.com, the RSS feed for that category is at http://example.blogharbor.com/blog/Podcasts/index.xml . Tell your listeners to subscribe to your Podcast RSS feed and get busy creating your podcasts! Links and ResourcesSunday, October 3
Change the Author name that appears on your Articles
October 3, 2004 09:58PM (EDT)
When you first created your BlogHarbor weblog, you chose a Username which you use to access your Blog Control Panel. If you did not also choose a Display Name when you created your blog, then your Username appears as the Author on all of your articles and comments. This article explains how to change the Author name as it appears on your articles. more »
Tuesday, September 21
Create a Sidebar Component Linking your RSS Newsfeeds
September 21, 2004 01:51PM (EDT)
BlogHarbor weblogs automatically create RSS newsfeeds for your blog, not only for the blog as a whole, but for each category as well. A standard component is installed on your blog called Category RSS Feed which is designed to be used as part of your header and link to the RSS feed for the category being viewed. Also available is a header component called RSS Link which links to your blog's main RSS feed. This article will show you how to create a component for the left or right sidebar of your weblog, which will show a link not only to the main RSS feed for the weblog, but also for the Category RSS feed based on the page being viewed. This component, as seen on the sidebar of the BlogHarbor demo blog, will dynamically change depending on the Category of the page being viewed. more »Saturday, July 31
Configure Ecto to post to your weblog
July 31, 2004 05:42PM (EDT)
Weblog editors add additional capabilites which are not possible when editing via the web control panel, allowing advanced bloggers increased flexibility when posting articles and images. BlogHarbor weblogs support the Movable Type/Blogger API, which allows you to post to your BlogHarbor weblog using popular weblog client tools such as NewzCrawler or w.bloggar or Blogjet for Windows, or ecto, a blogging client for Mac OS X. Ecto for Mac OS X is a new weblog client with such features as support for multiple weblogs, iTunes integration, an advanced file and image upload tool with iPhoto import, and HTML previews. The trial version of ecto is a free full-featured version that will expire after 14 days of use; ecto is priced at $$17.95. This article will walk you through the steps of setting up ecto to access your BlogHarbor weblog. BlogHarbor is not a partner of or affiliated in any way with ecto, however we have tested this software and found that it is compatible with BlogHarbor weblogs. ecto was easy to download and configure, and we were able to post to our BlogHarbor weblog in minutes.more » Wednesday, July 21
Posting with Mac Web Browsers
July 21, 2004 12:13AM (EDT)
Blog admins using the Mac OS platform to publish their weblog may be experiencing some issues when using certain browsers to publish articles. This article will outline the symptoms of those problems and make suggestions for working around them. Your users and readers will not experience any difficulties accessing your blog site using Mac OS browsers, these issues are limited to the authoring features of your weblog. Rich Text EditorThe BlogHarbor system features the Rich Text Editor which allows you to enter text for your article and see the text as it will appear on your blog. The Rich Text Editor creates HTML for you, allowing you to create styled posts with little knowledge of HTML. The Rich Text Editor is not supported by the Internet Explorer or Safari browsers for Mac OS.
Best browsers for Mac OS
Recent versions of any of these browsers are compatible with the Rich Text Editor used at BlogHarbor, and will provide an excellent experience with your weblog control panel. Mac OS 8.6 and 9.x users will find the Wamcom version of Mozilla 1.3.1 to be an excellent browser; in our opinion the Wamcom Mozilla is the best browser for Mac users who have not made the switch to OS X. Blogging clientsAs we noted in this article about NewzCrawler and w.bloggar for Windows and this article about BlogJet for Windows, it is also possible to use specialized blogging clients to post to your weblog. Ecto
Learn how to configure ecto with your BlogHarbor weblog. MarsEdit
Configure MarsEdit for use with BlogHarbor by choosing Movable Type as the API and specifying the RPC endpoint of http://api.blogharbor.com/xmlrpc.cgi . Thursday, July 1
Configure BlogJet to post to your weblog
July 1, 2004 01:39AM (EDT)
These weblog editors add additional capabilites which are not possible when editing via the web control panel, allowing advanced bloggers increased flexibility when posting articles and images. BlogHarbor weblogs support the Movable Type/Blogger API, which allows you to post to your BlogHarbor weblog using NewzCrawler or w.bloggar, two popular weblog client tools. Blogjet is a new addition to the class of weblog clients, and with such features as a built-in spell checker, voice attachments, automatic photo uploading, and an easy to use HTML editor, Blogjet is a very powerful piece of software which all Windows users at BlogHarbor should give a try. The trial version of BlogJet is a free full-featured version that will expire after 30 days of use; Blogjet is priced at $19.95. This article will walk you through the steps of setting up Blogjet to access your BlogHarbor weblog. BlogHarbor is not a partner of or affiliated in any way with BlogJet, but we have tested their software and found that it is compatible with BlogHarbor weblogs. BlogJet was easy to download and configure, and we were able to post to our BlogHarbor weblog in minutes.more » |
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BlogHarbor weblogs support the use of weblog client tools which allow you to post articles and images to your weblog using a familiar Windows or Macintosh based interface, rather than the web-based interface of the Blog Admin Control Panel.
The best web browsers for use with the BlogHarbor system—for Mac OS users as well as users of all platforms—are the browsers in the Mozilla family. These browsers include:
BlogHarbor weblogs support the use of weblog client tools which allow you to post articles and images to your weblog using a familiar Windows or Macintosh based sofware, rather than the web-based interface of the Blog Admin Control Panel.
