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Newbie Tips: The BlogrollA lot of people have asked how to create a blogroll or where to insert the blogroll once created into the home page templates and/or how to use navigator links with a blogroll..so here are my newbie tips for blogrolls, with a little help from Jake's instructions on How to create a Blogroll with Radio's outliner and with a little help from several people on the discussion boards and at Userland. Jake's instructions has some good information about blogrolls but if you've never looked at HTML code or used Radio before it can be quite confusing for a newbie but its a good reference point. NOTE: I use Windows XP and my instructions are based on Windows XP however whenever I can I try to give Mac instructions but not being a Mac person and not owning a Mac, its sometimes difficult.. Also I plan on adding screenshots soon ... Description of Blogrolls: Blogrolls are a collection of links on the home page of a weblog that point to sites that are somehow related to yours. They serve several purposes, they direct readers to the sites that are important to you, and serve as a set of bookmarks for you. They also help build page rank in search engines for sites you wish to bestow page rank on.
Basically what you are going to be doing is replacing your navigator links macro with your blogroll inside your home page template(s) and/or desktop template. Or you can insert your blogroll macro before/after your navigator link if you want to keep the navigator links 1. Creating the blogroll and saving it in your www/gems folder Open Radio App by right clicking on the tray icon in Windows and choosing Open Radio borrowing from Jake's instructions for Mac OS X, click the app's icon in the dock Click on File > then New, this will open an untitled blogroll Add some links and descriptions for the links Add headers if you want Change the font colors of your links Insert lines, code is <hr> for multiple sections Save As > blogroll.opml in your gems folder located in your www folder or once you get the hang of blogrolls and you're creating multiple blogrolls for different things, save as blogroll_xxxx.opml whereas xxxx represents whatever its for 2. Adding CSS Style Items to the Home Page Template (for Blogrolls): You will want to add .blogrollText and .blogrollLinkedText items to the CSS Style Sheet section at the top of the home page template especially if you want the blogrolls to align the way you want them too. Open the home page template
In between these two items you want to add the following: so it will look like this when you are done
Submit your changes Inside the .blogrollLinkedText - I have text-align: left; - this means that my blogrolls will be aligned to the left (thanks to Roger Cadenhead who answered my question on the discussion board - I got this to work this morning). I suppose if you want everything to align to the center you would just substitute center for left or right if you want right aligned text. 3. Copy your blogroll.opml file from your events folder Wait for Radio to upstream your blogroll.opml file Go to your Events Folder You'll see something like this:
Right-click the link to your blogroll.opml file, and choose: What I like to do so I don't lose my blogroll.opml URL that I copied and also so I have the whole macro code ready to go is to open up Notepad and paste the blogroll url that I just copy from my events folder into the macro When you copy the shortcut, what you are essentially doing is copying the URL of your blogroll from Radio's server..my blogroll URL is http://radio.weblogs.com/0119318/gems/blogroll.opml for example the macro is: <%radio.macros.blogroll("http://xxxxxxx")%> whereas xxxxx represents the your blogroll url that you just copied out of your events folder therefore in Notepad, my blogroll macro will look like this: <%radio.macros.blogroll("http://radio.weblogs.com/0119318/gems/blogroll.opml")%> and yours will look similar except it will have your blogroll url inside the (" ") and this is what I'm going to be using for Step Four 4. Inserting your blogroll macro into your home page template(s) and/or desktop template Open your home page template by going to Preferences then Home Page Template. Scroll through your template until you find the following section which will currently have your navigator links macro. You might be looking at this template and wondering where the hell that navigator link is..just keep scrolling, each template has it located in a different place however it is there, I know the first time I looked for it, I couldn't see it and had to go line by line until I spotted it and sometimes still do especially if I had a new template. Before: <td> This is where you will paste the blogroll macro and URL that you copied from your events folder or if you used the notepad concept just the blogroll macro that you have created. After: <td> More newbie tips related to blogrolls: Blogrolls and Different Categories Templates Using different Blogrolls for different Categories or Two or more blogrolls on one page Editing Navigator Link inside Radio App comment []
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