[unspecified] Thursday, May 08 2008
Okay, here is the whole source for my website. Well, not the terminal emulator, but all the blogger templates, xml samples, databases, xslt, everything. Here is a quick rundown of how it works: Everything should reside in the "/weblog" directory on your webserver. If it doesn't, then you will have to manually change 80 some links to whatever your root directory is. There is a default.asp in the root directory. What it does is read the preferences of the user. If the user has set up preferences then it directs them to that layout (/weblog/9/default.asp for instance). If no preferences (cookies) have been saved, then it directs them to the default (/weblog/1/default.asp). There is a tracker.inc in the root directory. It tracks page hits and saves them to an Access2000 database. Don't worry, unless your site gets thousands of hits per day then you won't have problems with the Access database. It can be changed, but you'd have to do the work. There is a content folder in the root folder. It holds all your non-weblog xml content. There is an include folder in the root folder. It holds all the common files throughout your different layouts. There is a reports folder in the root folder. Go to /weblog/reports and it gives you a simple little suite of reporting tools. It was made to work with IE5. It won't work with netscape. If you want to use Netscape you can go to each one of the files by typing them in by hand (/weblog/reports/statistics.asp). There is a blog folder in the root folder. This is where blogger should FTP your weblog. Your weblog file should be named "blogger.xml". Set this in your weblog settings at Blogger. In the blog folder is a file called "bloggerTEMPLATE.txt". Use the template in that file as your weblog's template. There is an archive folder in the root folder. This is where blogger should FTP your archive. Your archive file should be named "archive.xml". Set this in your weblog settings at Blogger. In the archive folder is a file called "archiveTEMPLATE.txt". Use the template in that file as your weblog's template. Finally there is a folder called "1". This is your default layout for your webpage. If you plan on only having a single layout, then ignore this whole paragraph. If you do plan on having multiple layouts, then open up the weblog/content/prefs.xml file and take a look at it. There is an HTML form in the XML. To add more authors just copy the line that is there at the bottom and change the values. Please note that you should put your name in the first one. To add more layouts, copy the line with the radio button and paste another one, but give this radio button a value of "2". When you make a third layout, give it a value of "3" and so on... To make a new layout just copy your "1" folder and paste it, but name it "2". Then voila, you have a new layout and you can modify as you please. Now the hard part. XSLT. Unfortunately I am not going to teach you XSLT. Basically what XSLT does is take content, transform it to something else (in our case HTML), and that lets us see it. Here are a couple links on XSLT: XML - What for? More XSLT Fun Stuff There. Read those and you'll become a master and you can modify the XSLT files and change your site. Now, system requirements: WindowsNT/2000 Must have MSXML parser installed Must have access to FileSystemObject Must have Access2000 ODBC drivers Well, that was pretty easy. Now all you need is the link to download. It's below: Download surrealization site code
