Blogging Blog

Search Box

I've added a Google search box to this site, for practice; and to Watermark, for all those folks who get there via internet searches. This should shorten the time it takes them to discover that I don't have what they are looking for.

I followed the TypePad instructions, here. At first it didn't work; then I realized that I needed to add the "www" for this blog.

There are several other search engines available: FreeFind, Picosearch, and Bravenet are just a few. Let me know if there are others out there that you like, and I will add them to this list.

Comments Are Enabled

But I did it the easy way -- by correcting what I did at first.

It is, of course, more pleasant to do what I already know how to do; more difficult to learn something new. Besides, the sun came out.

First Challenge

Yukino says in a comment at Watermark:

SB, the reason comments aren't working is because you're linking to a permalink to an archive type that doesn't have a commenting form on it. If you want those links to work you have to set your primary archive type to be "Individual," or change the code on your index template to use the comment popup form instead of a # link.

Posted by: yukino | May 24, 2004 01:10 AM

Now, I did convert the template for this blog to "advanced", but I haven't used the advanced template; I just used the TypePad user interface to set the preferences, as I do at Watermark. I submitted a help ticket on this problem, but on reading Yukino's note, realize that this is an opportunity to begin my learning.

So, later today, I'll see what I can figure out. Wish me luck!

Learning Curve

This is my learning blog. Here I will try out new skills, so the look of this space will be constantly changing.

I've learned a lot doing , and now I want to expand my skills without messing it up.

My goals are to learn CSS; learn how to make drop-down boxes for archives; and maybe even learn to "skin" a weblog. I want to play with design and function.

Links and posts here will be focussed on weblogging and related technology.

So let's begin.

First Post

First post.