A blog, also known as a Web Log, is a component of your website. The blog contains posts that you've made which are marked with the date, indexed in reverse chronological order. Blogs are very popular
on the internet because they provide a way to share your thoughts and suggested links, among other material, with the Internet community on an ongoing and potentially interactive basis. Your blog could be considered your public journal.
We have made blog service available for all of your domains.
Creating a Blog Start by clicking on the Block Manager in myCP® (under Free Software at the right). In the Blog Manager, you can enable the blog feature for any of your domains by clicking
on 'create blog'. By default, the
admin password for your blog sites are set the same as your myCP® password. If you wish, you can set a different admin password for
each blog site.
Please note that it takes anywhere from 15 to 30 minutes for
the activation of a new blog to take effect mainly due to DNS propagation.
If your domain DNS records are maintained by a third party,
please ensure that blog.your_domain is pointing to site.superbblog.com
Login
to Administrative Interface
By clicking on 'Admin Login', you are taken out of myCP® Blog Manager into the SuperbBlog system itself. The ' Admin Login' login becomes available after the DNS propagation time has passed.
Delete
Blog Site
In the Blog Manager, you can see the domain names
that have blogs activated. You can delete the blogging feature for
a domain by clicking on the 'Delete Blog' link corresponding
to that domain name. Please be careful when doing this. Deleting
the blogging feature for a domain necessarily means that all
the blog entries that have been posted will be discarded and
are non-recoverable.
Change
Admin Password
Please note that changing the blog admin password affects the
logging in to your blog admin only and does not affect any other
part of your accounts or myCP.
You may add up to 10 virtual users to each blog in the Blog Manager under 'Add Virtual Users'. These users will be able to make posts to your blog which will appear under their name. They may login to the make posts at http://blog.your_domain/admin.php.
You can log in to SuperbBlog either by clicking on 'Admin Login' in the Blog Manager, or by entering the URL of http://blog.your_domain/admin.php and entering your username and password.
When you log into SuperBlog, you are taken to the Dashboard. Here you can see the summary statistics for your blog. Click on your blog name to enter it. Once within the blog, there are five main items at the top menu bar: NEW POST, MANAGE, MANAGE ALBUMS, CONTROL CENTRE, AND LOGOUT.
Create
Blog Categories
The very first time you enter your blog by clicking on its name in the Dashboard, you will be automatically taken to the MANAGE > New Category section, to create a blog category. This is because you need to create a blog category before you can create a blog entry, as all blog entries need to have a category. Choose a name for your category and a description then click 'Add'.
Create New Post
Once you have created a blog category, you can create a new post by clicking on NEW POST .
This is described in MANAGE> New Post below.
Create a Full Name For technical reasons, the username we use to log you in to SuperbBlog is your domain name. Thus any posts you make will appear to be posted by this domain name. We recommend that before you create any blog entries, create a Full Name for yourself so that this name can appear as the person creating the blog entries.
To do this, click on CONTROL CENTRE, and under Settings, click on User Settings. Type in your Full Name as you wish for it to appears on the blogs you post, and then click 'Update'.
New
Post
This is a subsection of the MANAGE section. Once you have
created a blog category, you can create a new post by clicking
on 'New Post'. Note this is the screen you
are automatically taken to when you first login to your blog
from the Dashboard, assuming you have already created a category.
There are two large text areas for you to enter your post.
The content in the top text box will be displayed at the main
page. The content in the bottom text box will only be displayed
in the [more] page.
At the right of the edit page, select the Category you wish
to place this blog entry in (required).
You may choose to set the status for the post to something
other than 'Published'. 'Deleted' will delete the post, and
'Draft' will make it viewable only to yourself, not the public,
until you change its status to 'Published'.
You may choose to enable or disable comments for this post.
You can set the default value for enabling comments in the
CONTROL CENTRE > Blog Settings.
You may choose to be emailed notification of any new comments
made to your post by checking the box here.
You may choose to send trackbacks for your post by checking
the box here. Read about trackbacks here.
You may choose to enter a different date for the post, either
back-dating or future-dating it, but normally you will leave
it set to today's date.
Posts
This is a subsection of the MANAGE section. This screen lists
the posts that you have made.
You can filter the list by Category, Status, Author, Date
and by Search term.
You can mass delete posts by checking their square boxes and
then clicking on 'Delete'.
You can delete single posts by clicking on the X icon for
that post.
You can see the viewing statistics for a post by clicking
on the graph icon (at the far right) for that post.
You can edit a post by clicking on the pencil-on-paper icon
for that post, or by clicking on the name of the post. This
brings you into the post-editing screen, which is almost identical
to the New Post screen.
New Category
This is a subsection of the MANAGE section. This is the same screen you are taken to when you enter your blog for the very first time, as described in Create Blog Categories in Getting Started.
Categories
This is a subsection of the MANAGE section. This screen lists
the categories that you have created, the number of posts in
each category, and whether the category is set to show in the
front page.
You can mass delete categories by checking their square boxes
and then clicking on 'Delete'.
You can delete single categories by clicking on the X icon for
that category.
You can edit a category by clicking on the pencil-on-paper icon for that category, or by clicking on the name of the category. This brings you into the category-editing screen, which is almost identical to the New Category screen.
Manage Links
Links are considered a major part of blogs. They are a list of links which appear on your front page to your blog visitors. You can link to anything you want on the WWW.
New Link Category
This is a subsection of the MANAGE section. Each link you create needs to belong to a specific category.
So you need to first have at least one category before creating
a link.
Link Categories
This is a subsection of the MANAGE section. This screen lists the link categories that you have created and the number of links in each category.
You can mass delete link categories by checking their square boxes and then clicking on 'Delete'.
You can delete single link categories by clicking on the X icon for that link category.
You can edit the name of a link category by clicking on the pencil-on-paper icon for that link category, or by clicking on the name of the link category.
New
Link
This is a subsection of the MANAGE section. Here you can create/choose
a name for the link (required), a URL address where the link
points (required), a description for the link, the link category
for the link, and a link to an RSS or Atom feed.
Regarding the RSS and Atom feeds: syndication means that when
you publish your blog, SuperbBlog automatically generates
a machine-readable representation of your blog that can be
picked up and displayed on other web sites and information
aggregation tools. Atom
is one of the standards for news syndication feeds for your
blog. This standard is used by many newsreaders such as NewsMonster,
NewzCrawler, NewsGator, etc. When a regularly-updated site
such as a blog has a feed, people can subscribe to it using
software for reading syndicated content called a 'newsreader.'
People like using readers for blogs because it allows them
to catch up on all their favorites at once. RSS
Really Simple Syndication is another standard for news syndication
format. SuperbBlog supports RSS versions 0.90, 1.0, and 2.0.
Various newsreader (Aggregators) support one or more of these
standards.
Links
This is a subsection of the MANAGE section. This screen lists
the links that you have created, the link category of each
link, and the feed for each link.
You can filter the list by Link Category.
You can mass delete links by checking their square boxes and
then clicking on 'Delete'.
You can delete single links by clicking on the X icon for
that link.
You can edit a link by clicking on the pencil-on-paper icon
for that category, or by clicking on the name of the category.
This brings you into the link-editing screen, which is almost
identical to the
screen.
Manage Custom Fields Custom fields are simply an extra field you can create for your posts. After creating a custom field, all new posts will have the option of adding this something to this field. Viewers of your blog will see the name of the custom field, plus whatever you filled into this field when creating the post
New Custom Field
This is a subsection of the MANAGE section. Here you set the name of the field (required), a description of the field, and the type of field it should be. You will generally ignore the hidden field option.
Custom Fields
This is a subsection of the MANAGE section. This screen lists the custom fields that you have created, along with the field description, the type of field it is, and whether it is hidden or not.
You can mass delete custom fields by checking their square boxes and then clicking on 'Delete'.
You can delete single custom fields by clicking on the X icon for that custom field.
You can edit the a custom field by clicking on the pencil-on-paper icon for that custom field, or by clicking on the name of the custom field. This brings you into the custom field editing screen, which is almost identical to the New Custom field screen.
A third major component of your blog (after posts and links) is the photo album. Clicking on 'MANAGE ALBUMS' from the top menu bar will get you into this section.
New Album
This is a subsection of the MANAGE ALBUMS section. You must create at least one album before you can add any photos. Here you can set the name of the album (required), write a description of the album, and assign the album to a parent album, which would make it appear as sub-album.
New Photo
This is a subsection of the MANAGE ALBUMS section. After you
have created an album, you are ready to upload photos into
it. Here you upload the from your computer photo by clicking
on the 'Browse' button. You must provide a description for
the photo, and you must specify what album it belongs in.
You can click on 'Add Field'
to upload multiple photos at once. When you are done, be sure
to click on 'Add' at the bottom right.
Photos
This is a subsection of the MANAGE ALBUMS section. This screen
lists your albums.
You can mass delete albums by checking their square boxes
and then clicking on 'Delete'.
You can delete single albums by clicking on the X icon for
that album.
You can edit an album by clicking on the pencil-on-paper icon
for that album. This brings you into the album-editing screen,
which is almost identical to the New Album screen.
When you first enter this screen you will be at the root album
level. Think of this as a simple folder hierarchy. You can
then navigate into particular albums by doing one of the following:
clicking on the image of the album, clicking on the name of
the album, or selecting the album from the drop-down menu
then clicking on 'Show'. Once inside the album, you can see
the photos that are in that album. You may edit or delete
the photos from here.
Click on 'CONTROL CENTRE' in the top menu bar to set the options for your blog. Here you will can click on Blog Settings, User Settings, Statistics, and BlogUsers.
Blog Settings
This is a subsection of the CONTROL CENTRE. Here you can change some of the settings that control the behaviour and appearance of your blog. After making the changes, be sure to click on 'Update' at the bottom right of the screen. These are the settings:
Permanent URL: This is the URL where this blog is running and that can be used to link to it. It can not be changed.
Name of the blog: This is a text string with a descriptive name of your blog site. It is the text displayed on top of every page.
Long descriptive text about this blog: This is more detailed description of your blog site that can optionally be displayed in some pages. It can be left blank if not needed.
Language used to display the texts: You can select one of the available languages. This language will be used to display the blog system text (not your own blog entries!). It also determines the format used for dates and numbers. More languages can be installed at any time.
Items in the main page: Set this to the number of posts you would like to have in the main page. More posts being displayed means longer download time for your visitors. The minimum number of posts is one.
Items shown as recent: Set this to the number of posts you would like to be shown as Recent. Minimum amount is one.
Template used to render the contents: SuperbBlog allows you to choose a template for your blogs. Click on 'Choose' to see which look suits you and then choose that template from the drop-down menu. You can choose the one most appropiate for your content.
Use 'more...' link in posts: If enabled, only the text typed in the 'Text' textbox will be shown in the main page. In order to display the 'Extended text', a 'more...' link will be added to each post.
Enable the visual editor of posts: Enables a more powerful, visual editor of HTML mark up. The editor only works in Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher or Mozilla 1.3 or higher
Enable comments default : Set this to yes if you would like to allow your visitors to make comments to your posts. This is just the default -- comments can still be enabled/disabled for certain posts when creating new posts or editing old ones.
Show future posts in the calendar: Choose whether posts which have a date in the future should appear in the calendar and be visible to users
Comments order, Categories order , and Link Categories order: Choose the order in which comments, categories, and link categories should be displayed in the front page.
Time offset: Time difference in hours that will be dynamically added to the date and time for each post. The blog server is in the Eastern Standard Timezone (GMT -5), so take whatever timezone you are in and add 5 to choose the number to enter here. For example, if are in the Pacific Timezone, (GMT -8) + (5) = (-3) , so you would set this to -3 hours.
User Settings
This is a subsection of the CONTROL CENTRE. Here you can build your profile, which is viewable by the public. The 'username' is unchangeable. The administrator should set the 'Full name' to the name they want to appear on their posts. Otherwise their posting name will be the domain name.
Statistics
This is a subsection of the CONTROL CENTRE. Here you can view the referral URLs for your website. These are the locations from which users came to visit your site. Clicking on the referral URL will bring you to that location.
Blog Users
This is a subsection of the CONTROL CENTRE. This lists the
virtual users of your blog. You may revoke posting privileges
of a virtual user by checking its square box then clicking
'Revoke permissions'.
