Friday, March 5, 2010
Learning about Blogs has been really useful
http://radley.blogs.com/radley_parish_plan_2010/
Learning about blogs has been really very useful. I sit on our Parish Plan Steering Committee and we were looking at ways to increase participation and stimulate interest in the Plan. The Village Website run by volunteers leaves a bit to be desired. Yesterday afternoon with the help of Ian of Radley College, who allow us to use their server, we set up aRadleyParish Plan Blog! It will feed direct to the website so it will always be current update and interactive. As a consequence of 23 Things at least I knew about these things. I fear however as a "knowledgeable" person it's going to be me looking after it from now on!
The setting up the Radley Village Plan Blog was interesting as it uses TypePad rather than Blogger and I was able to to compare and contrast features of the blogging software. I found Blogger initially easier to get started and manipulate but TypePad has some attrative features; an option to set when a post appears on the blog, the facility to keep a particualar post at the head of a blog, and the ability to split an extended entry so that a long post doesn't push all the others into the background. The latter functionallity I think I have found on Blogger. I think it is propably Sit Feed tab > Allow Blog Feeds > Full/Short. I have not tried it out just in case it isn't and my entries are irretreviably shortened.
I am now interested in looking at other blogging sofware such as WordPress to see how that does things!
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Looks great, and always good to hear that 23 Things has been useful in reality!
You can set other times for posts to publish if you want to on Blogger - click on 'post options' at the bottom of the posting box and on the right hand side there will be a little box called 'post date and time'. You can change this to any point and then when you hit the publish button it won't appear on your blog until the time you have set.
Splitting entries to hide extended ones isn't quite the same as the option in the full/short feeds bit that you listed - that's for when a post turns up in someone's RSS reader. If you select short then only the first paragraph will display and they will have to click through to your blog to read the rest of the post. If you want to set it so that most of your post is hidden on your actual blog, with a 'read more' option, then you can do this in the posting screen. In the toolbar above the box there should be a button on the right hand side that looks like a piece of paper with a zigzaggy cut through it. Click on that at the point at which you want your 'read more', and a line will appear in your box. Type the rest of the post underneath that. However I have noticed that some custom templates don't let you do this and just end up either ignoring it or cutting off everything below, so you may find it won't work for you with your pretty blog!
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