These sites might help, but I haven't used them all, so I'm just pointing them out:
For New Blogger, see HACKOSPHERE
I have personally installed and used the hack from Hackosphere on 3 of my own blogs, including this one, and it works very well. It was demanding enough that it took me 4 times to get it right, but it was worth it.
Fair Warning, though, about the above: In some cases, even short posts that you have not coded to say "Read more" at the bottom will do so, anyway. I would like to see a fix for this myself, but until it occurs, I don't mind the slight confusion. In some cases, I marked my short posts with END. at the end of the post, so even if it's marked "Read more", you can see that it's finished.
For classic Blogger, check expandable post summaries in Blogger help or this one
END.
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Expandable Post Summaries
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Page Elements--Html/Javascript & Text
The Html/Javascript Page Element Is Better!
At first I chose some Text Page Elements for my information at the top of the blog, but I have since changed it to an HTML/JAVASCRIPT Page Element. For some reason, both require line breaks in order to separate the text into paragraphs. Fair enough, I can do that. But the Text element loses those line breaks every time you return to do some editing, and that's crappy.
So if you had paragraphs or any kind of one-line-at-a-time "grocery list", you'd have to revamp the post to restore it to what you started with! Not hard, just time-consuming!
Text page elements are only good for a straightforward paragraph of information or for some other kind of information that you don't have to edit often.
In the HTML page element, nothing changes or is lost, and you can just edit what you meant to without a lot of special revamping. This is important to a ceaseless reviser like me--I often re-edit!
It is misleading to all users that we are able to put HTML into a Text page element when it's so problematic to do so! And there should have been a warning about this difficulty with making paragraphs. Anyway, fair warning from me!
Monday, February 18, 2008
Del.icio.us Categories For Blogger
I just went through this and I did it wrong at first, but my brain cleared and I thought it was an ok process. I made it worse than it had to be, I think, so hopefully you'll find it more straightforward.
Be sure to use the Permalink before you "post to del.icio.us" so that there's only one page (one post) for it to consider, certainly do not use the whole front page as I stupidly did. And don't submit the Edit version of the post!
-- If you want Categories, there is also Technorati.
-- If you have moved to New (Beta) Blogger, they have Labels that are for the same purpose, and they work well.
