Forum Weblogs

Coder’s Guide

 

Ah, so you’ve made a weblog. Now it’s time to design the weblog to suit your needs. Well, this is the place to start. This is a guide to tell you how to edit your weblog “face”. This is what appears in the list of weblogs on the main page. It has your box of whatever you want on it (within reasonable limits of course).

 

If you look at the Weblog Face HTML box, you’ll see you weblog face in its HTML format. If you know HTML, you can go straight ahead and start messing with things. If you don’t know HTML, you should learn HTML so you can code your own weblog. The weblog face is a little snippet of code, rather than a full blown HTML page.

 

There are a few things to keep in mind while coding the weblog face:

 

Here is the list of all the dynamic parts that you may be interested in:

Dynamic Part:

What it Does:

{catrow.forumrow.U_PAST}

Contains the link to view your weblog.

{catrow.forumrow.USERNAME}

Displays your username.

{catrow.forumrow.AVATAR_IMG}

Displays your avatar.

{catrow.forumrow.FORUM_NAME}

Displays the name of your weblog.

{catrow.forumrow.LAST_ENTRY}

Displays the time of your last entry.

{catrow.forumrow.LAST_POST}

Displays the time of the last post (reply or entry) in your weblog.

{catrow.forumrow.ICON}

Displays the mood icon of your last entry, if there is one.

{catrow.forumrow.WEBLOG_DESC}

Displays your weblog’s description

{L_VIEW}

Displays “View”

{L_LASTENTRY}

Displays “Last Entry”

{L_LASTPOST}

Displays “Last Post”

{L_LATESTMOOD}

Displays “Latest Mood”

{L_WEBLOG}

Displays “Weblog”

 

Well, that’s it. The rest is up to you. I’m sorry if the above looks a little daunting, but you’ll get used to it.