Torsten Posted October 4, 2005 Blogs ..... you either hate them or you love them. I haven't made up my mind yet. However, for the purpose of this site please discard your preconceptions about blogs and think back to the root of the term: weblog. The reason I installed this feature is not so we can keep track of CS's sordid sex and drug life , but rather to enable members to create permanent records of certain events, processes and situations. Things to put in blogs would be: Trade List Grow logs Methods - pictorials Artwork (eg personal gallery) Research projects Field trips Obviously you can put in your blog what you want (non-incriminating!!), but the popularity of your blog will very much depend on how relevant your contributions is to others. Each blog appears to have a block function that should allow the creation of different topics within the blog. I haven't worked this out yet, so please start experimenting. eg, you could maintain a mushroom grow log as well as a research project in the same blog. I don't think any user can have more than one blog though. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mescalito Posted October 4, 2005 Good stuff I like it. Have only had a quick play but one thing that came up was if someone does a growlog can you get better resolution for the pics? 'cause they look a lot smaller in the blog. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Torsten Posted October 4, 2005 the pics are set to 100x100px for the thumbnails and I think I will leave it at that size (larger pics should be clickable from the thumb). I think the reason why the pic in your blog is so crap is because you uploaded a thumbnail rather than the full size pic. This is the link for the image you uploaded - which as 'th' in the filename http://photobucket.com/albums/v335/mescali..._Fly_Agaric.jpg Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
apothecary Posted October 7, 2005 Just testing my new sig out Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Benzito Posted October 7, 2005 Very nice Apo, good idea including the links in your sig. Thanks for sharing too! :D Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Torsten Posted October 7, 2005 Excellent idea. I am going to try and merge this topic with the pinned Blog topic so that it can inspire others. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
apothecary Posted October 7, 2005 Oh right sorry, didn't know of this thread ;) Yeah I think everyone who can should try and put a trade list in their sig, that'd be fuckin awesome, you could search the blogs looking for what you want! Hmmm just tested it and it appears the blog search doesn't work Error: Fatal error: Cannot instantiate non-existent class: blog_search in /home/shaman/public_html/forum/modules/mod_blog.php on line 251 Owned Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
apothecary Posted October 7, 2005 Uh I'm at uni right now, so using IE to check the forums, notice that IE slices off the right hand side of images that don't fit in the box. Fine I guess, as long as someone can tell me how to use tags to resize the buggers. So yeah, if you're using IE then you probably missed some of my garden Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Benzito Posted October 7, 2005 Owned Pwned, do you mean? And you call yourself |_33+ Isn't the img tags just (img src="blah" height="x" width="y")? I haven't done HTML in years, I'm a bit rusty... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
apothecary Posted October 7, 2005 Test image Yeah in the blog there is no "File Attachments" so you cant have thumbnails (i.e. there is no "Add into Post")and I don't think supports height and width attributes EDIT: Yah benz, but I prefer using the local markup, which is in this case the forums default BB code. If possible, I'd prefer thumbnails (for easier viewing by dialup users) but if nothing comes, I'll just switch from to >img> EDIT: Uh looks like the HTML img tags don't work at all. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Torsten Posted October 7, 2005 I am trying to work out a way to deal with this. For security reasons it is recommended to keep html turned off for the forums, blogs and gallery, so that's why html tags won't work. Member albums make maintenance extremely messy, so I prefer to keep them closed too. So the best option I can see is to upload a pic to the gallery. The gallery then produces a thumbnail and the larger pic. You can use the URL of the thumb to post into the blog and link it to the full size pic in the gallery. Sorry, not ideal, but the best I can come up with at this point. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Auxin Posted November 9, 2005 Error: Fatal error: Cannot instantiate non-existent class: blog_search in /home/shaman/public_html/forum/modules/mod_blog.php on line 251 Owned Just a reminder of something to look at if you get bored Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Torsten Posted November 9, 2005 thanks, I had actually forgotten. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Auxin Posted February 4, 2006 <.>>.> Forgot again huh? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Torsten Posted February 5, 2006 apparently this has been fixed in an upgrade. I have not dared to do the upgrade yet Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Torsten Posted October 9, 2006 hmmm, I did the upgrade..... but I think there is another one out now. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
