News!! How The Information Inwards Blogger Blogs Is Organised

This article explains the building-blocks that Blogger uses to brand your blog's spider web pages. It explains which ones y'all tin terminate together with cannot control, together with links to other articles amongst to a greater extent than details close this.

Overview

Blogs, Blogger, bloggers, Posts, Pages together with Screens), I've explained that Blogger is a software programme that lets y'all brand blog-style websites.

Each type of blogging software (Blogger, WordPress, TypePad, etc) plant inwards a dissimilar way. And each i uses dissimilar "pieces" of information to pose a weblog together. This diagram describes the components ("pieces") that Blogger uses:

Components inwards Blogger:

Posts together with Pages:
These are where y'all larn inwards most of the "content" of your blog. They are edited from Post Editor or Page Editor, which is on the Posting tab. Pages are supposed to move for static content that doesn't alter often, but these days many bloggers put Posts into their Pages anyway.

Comments:
Comments are where other people convey responded to the content of your blog. They are created inwards the Comments window which is underneath Posts when person is viewing your blog, provided y'all convey opted to display Posts. Your administrators tin terminate move out comments equally good - inwards precisely the same way.

The Posting / Comments moderation tab lets administrators (and authors? I'm non sure) either Publish or Reject comments. Apart from that, in that place is no means to edit them.

Content which is "linked to" from your Blog:
There are roughly items which experience similar they are part of your blog, but which aren't genuinely stored inwards the blog.   For example, a moving-picture demonstrate that's inwards the middle of a post is stored inwards Picasa Web Albums: your post merely has roughly code which says where to detect the moving-picture demonstrate together with how to display it.

This content tin terminate move edited inwards where-ever it is, together with the side yesteryear side fourth dimension person looks at your weblog they volition run across the updated content. For example, i of my blogs shows a lot of Google Custom Maps: if I edit a map inwards the Maps application, the changed version is inwards my blog.

However this does depend on whether the house that your information is stored lets y'all edit it without changing the URL (ie address) of the file: if it changes (as it sometimes does if y'all endeavour to edit from Picasa-web-albums), together with thus your blog-posts that indicate to it volition convey a broken-link.

Blog Template
Your weblog template says how screens inwards your weblog should move drawn.

Many of the options inwards the Template designer tab (especially Fonts & Colors) allow y'all utilisation point-and-click screens to edit values that are stored inwards your template. And inwards many cases y'all tin terminate directly edit the template yourself, if y'all are brave enough.

Post Template
The Post Template is a split upward slice of code that controls how your Posts together with Pages are displayed.   You cannot run across it, together with the alone means that y'all tin terminate command it is from the options inwards the Layout > Blog Posts tab together with the Settings > Posts together with Comments tab.

Sometimes Post Templates larn corrupt: the master copy symptom of this is that no affair what settings y'all choose, the items that are shown for each post (lables, author, date/time) don't change.   Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 solution is described in this article.

Widget Settings
Widgets (also called gadgets together with page-elements) are the "things" that are pose onto your blog.   Adding a novel widget is rattling easy - depending on what gadget y'all use, y'all tin terminate larn inwards a attain of information close it, things similar the championship to laissez passer on it, how to construction what it displays (eg should the archive move apartment or hierarchical).

Some of the widget settings are is stored inwards the Blog template, but non all of them. The alone means to edit widget settings that are non inwards the Layout template is through the Layout > Page Elements options (Design > Page Elements inwards the onetime blogger interface).

Other Settings
Blogger stores a reveal of other settings close your blog. For example, if the readership is express (and who to), who should move notified when novel comments are left, the re-direct address for the feed of Posts, etc, etc, etc.

The alone means to edit these settings is through the relevant tab: in that place is no other means (inside Blogger) to thought or alter them.

Components exterior Blogger:

As good equally the data-items that Blogger straight uses, blogs convey roughly information that is stored correct exterior Blogger.   Examples include

The RSS feed details that convey been fix inwards Feedburner (or similar)
Facebook concern human relationship links
Lists of electronic mail subscribers,
etc.

I convey non considered them because they are thus wide-ranging - together with because they're correct exterior Blogger's master copy functions.