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category link macro

December 17, 2003 Comments Off on category link macro

category link macro…its working..little tweaks needed for location and spacing..test 1 2 3. A big THANKS to Tweezerman…I figured you had created one of these at one point 🙂 Thanks Jake for answering on the discussion board and trying to figure it out for everyone…too. Newbie Tip – Category Link Macro – How to Install …

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adding text colors inside the comment box..

November 15, 2003 Comments Off on adding text colors inside the comment box..

interesting find..I was trying to figure out how to add colors to my comments or when I insert a comment into my comments..its all code – let me explain, the comments box is basically a WYSIWYG comment box without the text formatting options, in order to change the color of the comment text you have …

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Radio Calendar Bug Fix…

November 2, 2003 Comments Off on Radio Calendar Bug Fix…

There seems to be a bug in Radio that if you don’t post to the main page on the last day of the month and only to a category on the last day of the month, you’ll get a 404 page error. I had the same thing happen to me at the end of August. …

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XML and RSS files…

October 31, 2003 Comments Off on XML and RSS files…

Someone asked me a question about the point of XML or RSS files…I answered to the best of my knowledge but if anyone can explain a little better…please comment… Question: What is the point of the XML (or RSS) files? Can they be edited? Actually the blog seems to operate with HTML, so I haven’t …

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Changing Navigator Link Preference using CSS Styles

October 18, 2003 Comments Off on Changing Navigator Link Preference using CSS Styles

In response to a question on the discussion board on formatting navigator links for category pages..(changing font size and doublespacing), here are some basic instructions: Lets see if I can explain this where it makes sense. Each category is like its own little blog, therefore if you edit the navigator links preferences (size, color, etc..) …

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Newbie Tip: Changing Blogroll Format to Horizontal View

September 19, 2003 Comments Off on Newbie Tip: Changing Blogroll Format to Horizontal View

Yesterday I posted help (want blogroll to go horizontal) and thanks again to David Phillips/Tweezerman…we got this working..check out the sexymagick category to see my new blogroll horizontally on the page. The reason I wanted to have my blogroll go horizontal is because I’m using bryan bell theme, discreet radio blog in black which has the navigator …

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Tweaking Radio's HTML Editors

September 19, 2003 Comments Off on Tweaking Radio's HTML Editors

Today I decided to try David Phillips javascript Tweaking Radio’s HTML editors (both of them!) to change the fonts used by the built-in HTML editor, works great. I’m using Courier New font for this post. If I could figured out the font family for Comic Sans Ms then I’d be good. I’d also like to …

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Comment Notification via Email

September 16, 2003 Comments Off on Comment Notification via Email

New feature: Comment Notification via Email. We’ve got a new feature for Radio and Manila: Comment notification via email. When someone posts a comment on your Radio or Manila site, an email is sent with information about the person who posted the comment, a link to the post they’re commenting on, and the text of …

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Tricking Radio into using a graphic inside the navigator links

August 30, 2003 Comments Off on Tricking Radio into using a graphic inside the navigator links

David (TweezerMan) expanded on my newbie tip for adding a link to a graphic by showing how you can trick Radio into using a graphic inside the navigator link which I’m assuming also works to just add graphics inside the navigator links without links and possibly to add graphics inside blogrolls.. Thanks for the additional information.. 🙂

experimentation in blinkies

July 26, 2003 Comments Off on experimentation in blinkies

it worked!!! blinkie newbie tips here adding a message or blinkie under blog name