Tutorial: Using FrontPage with Radio Weblogs
Using FrontPage to create a Daily Weblog entry
Now that we've gotten through the hard part, I'm going to go through a few
quick tutorials that will help you "spruce up" your Weblog before we
jump off the deep end again and talk about templates and themes.
Because Radio handles to much of the web design process for you, adding an
entry to your Daily Weblog is fairly simple using the Radio interface. So
if it's so simple then why would you want to use FrontPage to make an
entry? Control.
When I work on a site I like everything laid out a particular way.
Adding items to my Daily Weblog is no exception. As you've noticed in these
tutorials, I have shadow boxes, screen captures and other formatting elements on
my pages. Could I have done it from the Radio Interface?
Probably. But that would have meant switching to Source view and hand
coding the HTML myself, something I haven't done in years.
So how can I add an entry to my Weblog and still be creative about the
layout? Hmm. Hey, I could use FrontPage! Here's what you do.
- Open FrontPage and choose File, New Page (in most cases
FrontPage will automatically open to a blank page).
- Type your content and apply any special formatting you'd
like. For example, you could add a Table to hold an image an align it
so the text wraps around it.
- Switch to HTML View by clicking the HTML tab at the bottom of the
Window.
- Select everything BETWEEN (but not including) the
<BODY> and </BODY> tags.
- Choose Edit, Copy (Ctrl+C).
- Open your Radio Home Page
- Switch to Source View where you type in your log entry.
- Paste in your FrontPage code, Ctrl+V
- Switch back to WYSISWG mode and make sure everything looks ok.
- Post to Weblog.
That's it. As I said, there's not much to this section but it's useful
to know if you want better control over the layout of your entry. Learning
how to do this will also be useful when I discuss templates and themes.
| Tip |
If you want your entry to have the same style as the theme on
your Weblog then leave all your text set to "default font"
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