In addition to posting our next blog entry, our lesson for this exercise was to visit every blog in Web Publishing II at COS, and post at least one comment. Next, we moved or transferred our blogs from BlogSpot.com, also know as Blogger.com to the student server for our class. In this case, we then had to switch to the former classic template under the Settings and Publisher tabs in order to transfer our blog to the new server. By selecting FTP Server and hosting the blog on the student FTP Server at COS, we were able to link our blogs to our class homepages which really enhances the web sites.
The actual configuration of the settings for the ftp server on the publishing tab requires the exact addresses for the ftp server, blog URL, ftp path, including the blog file name and the feed filename. The blog file name is usually the main index file contained in the blog directory, but can virtually be named anything with an *.html extension. The feed filename is actually the atom.xml file located in the main root directory. If you have those addresses then it becomes very simple and straight forward - just copy and paste the appropriate information into the correct fields. We then published our new blog to the student server by tweaking a couple settings and it worked after several attempts.
Another cool feature is the ability to change and modify the template online via the Template tab which allows you to edit the main template document file online. It functions very much like a web hosting account when you log in to make changes and update the web pages for your web site. However, there is another way to approach this problem. I copied the blog template into a text editor and then imported it into Adobe Dreamweaver so that I could make changes to the document as at text file. Finally, when I finished modifying the template, I would just copy and paste it back into the main template editor found on the Templates tab, then save the changes made to the template.
The overall experience was really very educational and I discovered that I had actually learned more about Blogs and how they function on the web, not to mention all the latest technology regarding RSS, Atom, XML - and how these languages are used to design blogs. Considering the latest social networking trends in Web 2.0, and the ways that professional software developers and end-users utilize the internet to conduct business, socialize, communicate and share information - it is absolutely astounding to think about what the internet will be like in 10-20 years from now!
The actual configuration of the settings for the ftp server on the publishing tab requires the exact addresses for the ftp server, blog URL, ftp path, including the blog file name and the feed filename. The blog file name is usually the main index file contained in the blog directory, but can virtually be named anything with an *.html extension. The feed filename is actually the atom.xml file located in the main root directory. If you have those addresses then it becomes very simple and straight forward - just copy and paste the appropriate information into the correct fields. We then published our new blog to the student server by tweaking a couple settings and it worked after several attempts.
Another cool feature is the ability to change and modify the template online via the Template tab which allows you to edit the main template document file online. It functions very much like a web hosting account when you log in to make changes and update the web pages for your web site. However, there is another way to approach this problem. I copied the blog template into a text editor and then imported it into Adobe Dreamweaver so that I could make changes to the document as at text file. Finally, when I finished modifying the template, I would just copy and paste it back into the main template editor found on the Templates tab, then save the changes made to the template.
The overall experience was really very educational and I discovered that I had actually learned more about Blogs and how they function on the web, not to mention all the latest technology regarding RSS, Atom, XML - and how these languages are used to design blogs. Considering the latest social networking trends in Web 2.0, and the ways that professional software developers and end-users utilize the internet to conduct business, socialize, communicate and share information - it is absolutely astounding to think about what the internet will be like in 10-20 years from now!
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