Tweaking your blog

Here are some settings you may want to tweak in your blog.

FTP Settings - Instead of using http://yourblog.blogspot.com as the URL, you can post the blog to your library's web site. If you can get the FTP settings for your web site, add them to the Publishing Settings sections. The blog will then be automatically published to your own web site every time you add a post.

Sidebar Content - The sidebar is a great place to add permanent content to your blog. This is where your profile displays and where you can post links to other web sites. You can also post the URL for your RSS feed in the sidebar area. However, to edit sidebar content, you need to go into the HTML code for the template. It's not as hard as it sounds.

Click on the Template tab and then look at your HTML code. Most of the code at the top is just style information. If you go about halfway through the code, you'll start to see the content. Look for code that says

<!-- Begin #sidebar

The sidebar content follows this comment tag. If you don't want your profile to display, you can remove all of the code that starts with "Begin profile container" and ends with "end profile."If your template comes with quick links, you can find the code to edit these links. If your template does not come with quick links, follow these instructions to add these links to the sidebar.

Links at bottom of posts on main page - There are two links at the bottom of each post on the main page. For both links, the text that is linked is not very helpful. The timestamp is actually linked to the permalink for the posting. The number of comments link is also the link that needs to be used if someone wants to post a comment. You can edit the text in these areas by going into the HTML code and finding the

<!-- Begin #main comment tag.