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Thanks geoff67.

Let me clarify. What I meant by a private blog, is one where only logged in users have access to the posts / pages. Like a membership site.

It would not be for pay, but a very controlled membership base of “users”.

?? vkaryl

Yes, thanks moshu for a great theme to start with.

Not LH. It’s Big~Daddy. She did most of the verbage and screenies, I acted as editor/web-publisher.

Drop on over at the SCS site (link at the top of the guide). I’m sure LH will be glad to hear from you and raise a ^v^ to you.

Thanks for the comment.
BD

Can you not use multiple loops?

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/The_Loop

Viper007Bond: Thanks, I looked at your webstats and the top five you’re looking at are all standard screensizes available from a variety of graphics card providers. As far as I’m aware (and I’m no expert) the only way to determine the user’s actual window size (not screen size) is using JavaScript, which is client side only. If anyone has a way of determining and relaying the window size of my site visitors, please provide.

As for the dual monitor set-up, I wish I could but it’s not practical for me. My desktop workspace is rather limited, and 50% of the time, I operate from my road PC. When I last updated, I went to a 17″ widescreen laptop, which was a great improvement over smaller screens. Obviously not a good PC for a dual screen. My business is built on taking me (and my computer) to the clients work, not thier work to my office. I know that puts me in the minority.

Please remember that your webstats will tell you the viewers screen resolution, but not the window-size of the browser.

Maybe we need to do a quick poll here of how many of us run thier browsers at full screen.

I typically do not. Except when I’m doing design work – which IS mainly a side income. But, my mainstream business requires multiple open windows.

I do like the suggestion made above of utilizing multiple themes/CSS for the benefit of all potential viewers.

Don’t forget the bell-curve effect. There are probably as many of the “tech-savvy” 1024+ crowd that appreciate a fluid or 800px design as there are people on 800×600 monitors. Just for differing reasons.

For example I just looked up to check as I was writing this, and I have 5 windows open. Two email programs, an accounting program, a spreadsheet and Firefox. I will often also have a word processor and IE open at the same time.

I appreciate fluid & 800px site designs, because they take up _less space_ on my 1600px 19″ LCD. Additionally, even a fluid design with the wrong (fixed pixel) font sizes is more difficult to read at higher screen widths. Go with the %/em size recommendations, above.

I agree that UTF-8 is the way to go on websites. But, the rest of the world is either not convinced, or does not care.

My problem is that I have one category feed designed specifically to be integrated into other people’s websites. I have found that most others are using the ISO-8859-1 charset, and my display in UTF-8 shows up with unintelligible characters.

I provide a php code line for inclusion of my feed into thier websites. So, I could incorporte a translation script, if necessary.

Any suggestions/recommendations on available scripts?

I’m assuming that you have had a look at the RSS Import doc at:

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Importing_Content#Importing_from_an_RSS_feed

also, check out this post:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/49788?replies=12

in it allyn shows a little about the structure of an RSS file. But, there is no discussion of post STATUS

At the bottom of that post, Kafkaesqui placed a link to

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/37854?replies=8

where he discussed the MT import process which does include a STATUS field and is fairly straightforward text input. I used this method to load up some off-line content and it worked like a charm.

It should be fairly easy to convert the RSS feed to this MT format with the text editor of your choice.

Warning – this suggested method will affect your entire permalink structure. Give carefull thought before implementing.

In your Dashboard click Options > Permalinks

click the radio button “Custom, specify below”
and in the input box type:

/%post_id%

In the OPTIONAL “Category base” input box type

/..

Delete or rename your existing html coded /nm page.

You may have to experiment with your category title / slug to get just the right URI, but this should put you on the right track.

Warning (again) – This will change your permalink structure and will break any existing links on other sites to yours for anything but the home page. This would include existing search engine links.

Kafkaesqui’s solution above works wonderful! The only thing left out is that you need to start and end with a
——–
as well.

Also, if your using NotePad (like I did) to clean up your text, be sure to save the file in UTF-8 encoding. Just use the file save as drop-down box in NotePad.

Oops found the answer right after posting this question.

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/46274

Thanks for a great blogging software!

I found the answer in post:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic.php?id=16291

If you follow this, be aware that the method for 1.5 changes from previous versions. But, 1.5 is also given, in the lower third of the thread.

Sorry for the nubie question, but where is this URL query string located?