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Bloggin For Linux

User’s Guide

Advanced Internet Technologies, Inc.

November 11th, 2005

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Preface:

This document is the user’s manual for the AIT Blogging Software, offered by AIT to all of its Linux fully managed web hosting customers.

Target Audience:

AIT Customers

Table of Contents

1Introduction

2Notes

3File Manager

3.1Upload File

3.2New Directory

4Add Blog Post

5AddStaticPost

5.1Add Divider

5.2Add Link

6Configuration

7Change Login

Introduction

This guide will start with the installation of the Bloggin Software. This software can be used by website owners to add their own ideas or comments on a range of categories. The Blog or Web Log as it’s called, can be installed through the SMT for Linux. To install the Bloggin software, review the installation information in the SMT 4.1 for Linux User’s Guide, located here:

Once you arrive in the SMT / cpanel, go to Web Services, then Add shown below in Figure 1-1.

Figure 1-1

After you click the Install Bloggin for Virtual Hostlink, you will be shown the following screen:

Figure 1-2

  • Domain Name: This is where you will select the domain name that you wish to install the software for. Your top level domain, and any of your virtual hosts will show up in this drop down menu.
  • Directory: This section is two fold. Here you will select the physical directory that the software is being installed to i.e. the virtual host directory, or into htdocs. What you select here, will also determine how you access it in a browser i.e. if you select blogger as the directory for domain.com, then you will access the software by going to domain.com/blogger

Once you select to install, you will see the following confirmation screen:

Figure 1-3

Once you installed the software, assuming that you installed it to the blogger directory, the initial page will look like the following screen:

Figure 1-4

To begin, you will need to click the login button, placed on the right hand side of the screen. Once you do this, you will see a screen like the following:

Figure 1-5

Here, you will login with the same information provided in Figure 1-3. Once you login, you will have a greeting page that you will come to upon successfully logging in, shown below:

Figure 1-6

Notes

Figure 2-1

The notes that you can add here are notes that will only be available to the user. External users will not have access to these notes. You can use these to ensure that you do not forget important dates, events, or any other important notes that you may want to keep.

File Manager

The software also has a File Manager built in as well, so you can share pictures and documents with your viewers. The first page of the File Manager is shown below:

Figure 2-2

  • Upload File: This is where you will specify the location of the file on your local machine that you would like to upload. Simply click the browse button, navigate your local computer to find the final, and click ok. When you have found it, click submit.
  • New Directory: This interface can be used to create a directory inside the /files directory, which is inside the blogger directory on the server. If you create a directory called pictures, a directory inside the /files directory, a ‘pictures’ directory will be in the files directory. After you create a directory, you will have the option to delete, or rename the directory that you just created, shown below:

Figure 2-3

Add Blog Post

The next interface will be the Add Blog Post section. Here you can create, modify, delete your current blog posts, shown below:

Figure 3-1

Here you can add the Title of your post, and then the content. There are also specific ways to format the content, in the control bar just above the form.

  • b: bold
  • i: italics
  • u: underline
  • code: This is where you can enter in code that will not be recognized by the system. For instance, if you put in HTML code here, it will show as the code, not as the effect the code produces.
  • URL: You can place a linked URL into your blog here.
  • Link: Here you will be able to create a hyperlink to another site i.e. you could have a text button that said “Games” and then when it was clicked, it would proceed to a gaming site.
  • Email: Here you can enter in a mailto address. A mailto address will allow the clicker to open an email client ready to send mail to the address entered.
  • IMG: Here you can insert an image into your post. You are required to insert the web address i.e. yourdomain.com/images/image.jpg

The software also has the option to create a static post. You have the option to create them in the Add Static Post button, and is shown below:

Figure 3-2

You can create posts here exactly like any other post. The only difference is that once these are created, the link is made under the Navigation Menu, with the name of the title that you selected as shown below:

Figure 3-3

Note that the test button that is now showing under the Navigation menu, under home. You can create as many of these as you would like, and they would show as an additional link under navigation.

Add Static Post

Next, you will be able to manage the static posts that you have created, under the Manage Static Posts link. The interface is shown below:

Figure 4-1

Add Divider: You can use this to create dividers between the static posts. So if you have a post called Test, then create a Divider called Test Divider, then a second static post called Testing, it would look like the following:

Figure 4-2

Please notice the first static post of Test, the divider called Test Divider, then the second post of Testing. This is how you can use the Divider to do just that, divide your static posts.

Add Link

Figure 4-3

Here you will have the option to add a link. You will be able to place a link under the navigation menu. For example, I have created a test link called Test Link, and then the URL is Note the example below:

Figure 4-4

You will notice that the test link shows just under Home in the Navigation menu. Users will be able to click that link, and go to as specified.

Configuration

Figure 5-1

  • Configuration: Here you will be able to modify the settings of your Blog in a number of different areas.
  • Site Title: Here you will be able to modify the title of your site, and this will reflect in the top bar of the browser
  • Blog Title:Here you can specify the title of your blog, you will notice that it is currently titled Blog, and this is what shows up above the configuration heading
  • Description: Here you will be able to specify a basic description of your blog
  • Keywords: you can give keywords that will be inserted to your site as meta tags, and your blog will also be search able by these terms
  • Footer: here you can specify the text that shows at the bottom of the blog. Currently its set to © 2005, and this shows up on the bottom as the copyright symbol
  • Number of Recent Posts: This will show the limit on how many recent posts will show on the front page
  • Date Display Format: this allows you to modify how the date will be shown on your blog. There is a key just above, labeled Time format
  • Menu Display Format: This allows you to modify how the menu will be displayed, and it will follow the Time format key as well.
  • Server Offset: This allows your blog to run on different time than the server, which runs on EST. Basically, if you wanted it to be behind by 3 hours for pacific time, you would have a -3 here.
  • Display Menu When not logged in: Here you can specify if you want the menu to be shown if you are not logged in.

Figure5-2

Here you can modify the color of your blog, and all of its links and menus. You will need to insert HTML color codes for these. You can use basic colors as well, but to have a wider variety, you will need to enter in the color codes.

Change Login

On the final link, you will be able to change the login information that you use to administer your blog. Input the old username and password along with a new username (if necessary) and the new password.

Figure 6-1