Backup Your Blog

The HTTRACK program seems to work, though I'm not sure if it's a full backup. I was told that's what it does and I'll believe it until I have reason to doubt their veracity!

How to Backup Your Blog

The advent of Beta has raised some question about the efficacy (or at least the speed and size) of the HTTRACK backups. See The Real Blogger Status--Beta for details.

I tried it once (on the Beta) and it did seem to glitch and at first I thought it did not complete all the posts, but later I saw I was wrong. So it is problematic at present, but it seemed to work. (01/06/07).

[Warning! It did take about 3 hrs. to backup my 1000 posts!]

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Backup Your Blog

The HTTRACK program seems to work, though I'm not sure if it's a full backup. I was told that's what it does and I'll believe it until I have reason to doubt their veracity!

How to Backup Your Blog

The advent of Beta has raised some question about the efficacy (or at least the speed and size) of the HTTRACK backups. See The Real Blogger Status--Beta for details.

I tried it once (on the Beta) and it did seem to glitch and at first I thought it did not complete all the posts, but later I saw I was wrong. So it is problematic at present, but it seemed to work. (01/06/07).

[Warning! It did take about 3 hrs. to backup my 1000 posts!]

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Table In Blogger Post

The trick is to type the whole table out on one continuous line; then you won't end up with a lot of extra line breaks imposed on it by Blogger. That's what produced the ONE TWO THREE FOUR below.

ONE	TWO
THREE	FOUR

Go to Blogger Article

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This is something Ive tried only a few times, but it seems to be very effective, especially if you're going to use tables often. This changes it another way, using css:

Table Formatting In CSS

My explanation of it is as follows, changing the table in the CSS:

Place the following line of code in your CSS:

.nobr br { display: none }

And place the DIV tags around your table as below:

<div class=nobr>
<table border=2>
<tr>
<td>PICTURE</td>
<td>OR TEXT</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>

See also Table Used For Horizontal Photos.

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Table In Blogger Post

The trick is to type the whole table out on one continuous line; then you won't end up with a lot of extra line breaks imposed on it by Blogger. That's what produced the ONE TWO THREE FOUR below.

ONE	TWO
THREE	FOUR

Go to Blogger Article

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This is something Ive tried only a few times, but it seems to be very effective, especially if you're going to use tables often. This changes it another way, using css:

Table Formatting In CSS

My explanation of it is as follows, changing the table in the CSS:

Place the following line of code in your CSS:

.nobr br { display: none }

And place the DIV tags around your table as below:

<div class=nobr>
<table border=2>
<tr>
<td>PICTURE</td>
<td>OR TEXT</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>

See also Table Used For Horizontal Photos.

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How To Indent

1. IN YOUR CLASSIC TEMPLATE, FIND THE FOLLOWING LINE:

<style type="text/css">

(In New Blogger's template, you may have to search for Body or some word typically found in the style sheet.)

2. BELOW THE STYLE LINE (AND PROBABLY BELOW THE "BODY" LINE, INSERT THE FOLLOWING:

#inden
{
text-indent: 25px
}

or just

#inden {text-indent: 25px }

3. SAVE THE CHANGE.
4. AFTER YOU GET IT TO WORK, YOU CAN INCREASE OR DECREASE THE 25PX ABOVE.
5. GO TO EDIT POST.
6. IN EACH POST PARAGRAPH INSERT THE FOLLOWING:

<p id=inden> TEXT </p>

Below is an example of the indent:

This is just quick and dirty, and not quick enough for some people, since it requires that you write the code for each of your paragraphs! It would be easier to write the code only once!

So far I've been too bone-headed to figure that out.

How To Indent

1. IN YOUR CLASSIC TEMPLATE, FIND THE FOLLOWING LINE:

<style type="text/css">

(In New Blogger's template, you may have to search for Body or some word typically found in the style sheet.)

2. BELOW THE STYLE LINE (AND PROBABLY BELOW THE "BODY" LINE, INSERT THE FOLLOWING:

#inden
{
text-indent: 25px
}

or just

#inden {text-indent: 25px }

3. SAVE THE CHANGE.
4. AFTER YOU GET IT TO WORK, YOU CAN INCREASE OR DECREASE THE 25PX ABOVE.
5. GO TO EDIT POST.
6. IN EACH POST PARAGRAPH INSERT THE FOLLOWING:

<p id=inden> TEXT </p>

Below is an example of the indent:

This is just quick and dirty, and not quick enough for some people, since it requires that you write the code for each of your paragraphs! It would be easier to write the code only once!

So far I've been too bone-headed to figure that out.

Anchor Used to "Jump" Within Post

--Anchor used to "jump" forward or back in the post. (Also known as Bookmark)

The first line of code indicates (invisibly) exactly where you want the next code to allow you to jump to, in this case called a mid-point.

<a name="Mid"></a> (destination)

and this next line of code will be visible, saying "Go to Mid-point" and will do just that (when clicked on) from wherever you place it in the blog.

<a href="#Mid">Go To Mid-point</a> (starting point)

The A's are not alphabetical, they are anchors like others you encounter in coding. So a 2nd one would be very similar, except reading (for example) "Bot" in the first line and "Go to Bottom" in the second line. <a name="#Bot"></a> (destination)

<a href="Bot">Go to Bottom</a> (starting point)

OR

<a name="#Top"></a> (destination)

<a href="Top">Go to Top</a> (starting point)

Other "names" could be given; the Bookmark is not limited to the mentioned top, mid, and bottom. Name them as you desire, as long as the lines at the starting point and at the destination refer to the same Name.

The cursor will not arrive at any highlighted or marked position; you'll have to select "logical" places for the jump.

IN BETA: Select an html/javascript Page Element in which to place the "Go To" line (start) and move it with drag and drop. Select another such Page Element for the second line (destination); then drag and drop it where needed--at or preceding the destination.

Then you can JUMP from your starting point to the destination, forward or backward!