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Instructions
The Toolbar now works with Radio Userland and the metaWeblog
API! The installation instructions are shown below; make sure to
read the Blogger page because all
the notes and such also apply to Radio. And check out
the screenshot. It's free
for personal use with Radio, you need to license it
for commercial use. The following is a very simple
implementation — if you're a Radio
guru you can probably come up with a bunch of interesting uses!
Note that this functionality is still in beta
— so there may be unanticipated
problems. Please let us know of any by emailing support@aspmodules.com!
Setup Instructions:
- Install the Toolbar.
You should make sure you've upgraded to IE6 before you do
this. You'll have to close your browser after installation (some
folks with older Windows OS's may have to reboot) so make sure you
can get back here. After you install it and press the
button to turn
it on, move the Adminimizer Toolbar to its own row so you can use
all the options.
- Edit your home page template (Prefs --> Templates):
Add these just below body tag:
<script
id="AdminimizerScripts"></script>
<xml id="AdminimizerToolbar"
src="RadioSettings.xml"></xml>
Add this tag somewhere in the template (this is where you'll add a
new entry — a good place to put it is
just above the <%bodyText%> macro):
<div id="editSpace_new"
style="width:95%"></div>
Or if you use titles for your
posts add these two lines instead:
<span id="editTitle_new"
style="width:95%"></span><br />
<div id="editSpace_new" style="width:95%"></div>
This is NOT required, but we'd appreciate it if you would place
this button somewhere on your page:
<a
href="http://www.aspmodules.com/at/blogInfo.asp"> <img src=
http://www.aspmodules.com/images/adm_under_the_hood.gif
border="0"></a>
- Edit your item template. (Prefs --> Templates):
Replace "<%itemText%>" with this line:
<div
id="editSpace_<%paddedItemNum%>"><%itemText%></div>
If you use titles for your posts replace
"<%itemTitle%> with this line:
<span
id="editTitle_<%paddedItemNum%>"><%itemTitle%></span>
- Download and
copy RadioSettings.xml into your
local Radio www directory (right click on the link and
choose "Save Target as"). You don't have to modify this file, but
take a look at it! There are many options and ways to personalize
the toolbar for your own site.
- If you don't use categories or if you want to
assign them manually you can skip this step. If you use categories
open up RadioSettings.xml in a text editor and add your category
names to the <Categories> node as a comma delimited list.
Example:
<Categories>Horses,Sharks,Baseball</Categories>
The Toolbar will then present you with this list every time you
post.
- Finally, in Radio go to Prefs --> Internet and Server
Settings and make sure that "The BloggerAPI in
Radio" is checked.
That's it! After your changes are upstreamed you should be ready
to edit right on your Radio Homepage! Make sure to read the notes and other stuff on the
blogger page before you use it!
NOTE FOR NON-ENGLISH USERS: The current
version of the toolbar now treats special characters correctly when
used in English. If you're use a different language go into the
radioSettings.xml file and change the <CharEncoding> node to
"raw" (no quotes) and make sure you are defining the encoding of
the page by placing this meta tag inbetween your <head>
tags:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type"
content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
We've had feedback that this works in some languages, but
we haven't fully tested this in all languages yet. So, if
you're blog is not in English be careful, and
please let us know
what you find!.
Is this Freeware, Open Source, or
what?
It's free for personal blog use, but it's not
open source and it's not freeware. Here's our evil plan for world
domination: Get bloggers using it, once they realize how great
it is they'll want to use it at work in other projects. Their
employers will pay us. We'll be happy, the bloggers will be happy
and their employers will be happy. Bwahahahaha.
Just FYI, the Toolbar is not scumware, adware,
spyware or any other type of ickyware. It doesn't call home or
anything like that, ever.
What other tricks can I do with the
Toolbar?
As you may have noticed in the XML file, the Toolbar is
pretty powerful. It's really meant to be used as a tool to
maintain website content, but it turns out it works great for
Blogs, too. Most of its functionality is explained
in detail on the settings
documentation page, but there are a few things that you might
be interested in:
Image Tool: By default the ImageEditor is
turned off because it requires a custom web page on the
server. If you use a Microsoft server you can use this asp file. To use it you'll
need to change the ImageWebFolder variable in ImageEditor.asp and
you'll need to change the
<PageVariables><ImageEditor><Enabled> node of
blogSettings.xml to "True". If you're on a different type of server
you'll have to build your own ImageEditor file. Basically, all you
need to do is list out IMG tags for all the images
in your image directory. You can then drag them from
the ImageEditor into any editable area on
your Blog.
Other advanced tips can be found here.
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