Comments on: Writing a blog – customising

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:22:44 +0000

Baino: Sorry, but I’m confining myself to WordPress. I have never run a Blogger blog, so I am not familiar enough to comment on it.

My sites seem to have a mind of their own. Some run like the clappers, and some are snails. It’s driving me mad!

By: Baino

Baino — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 09:53:37 +0000

Fantastic. I have a WordPress ‘private’ site so I’m not that fussed about what it looks like because it’s only for my kids to read and my own journal but I blog on Blogger . . .any similar advice for that? Oh, fixed my Mac problem. Safari doesn’ work nicely with Blogger so Firefox has been downloaded and works like a charm . .even ‘his’ website is downloading faster so may not have been a problem on your end at all! Cheers

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:51:44 +0000

TheChrisD: You are right about index.php, but for general customising that can normally be left alone. The only time that comes into play is if you wish to hard code some feature into the main page. I deliberately didn’t mention hard coding as that is a little advanced for this single blog post?! That would virtually require a blog site of its own…..

By: TheChrisD

TheChrisD — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:19:43 +0000

I’m ever so slightly surprised that there wasn’t any mention of index.php either, for those who want to make rudimentary changes to the way their posts are laid out providing there aren’t other templates that override them.

But then again, that’s just my “I custom code all my styles” head talking…

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:43:00 +0000

Sixty: It just occurred to me that this is the only blog I run that I haven’t tweaked in any way. I like it as it is. I think you should change yours though……