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FAQ How do I post an entry to my blog? Can I change the way my blog looks? What is RSS? What is the difference between the Auto-format, HTML and Plain text Format options? How do I let others post to my blog? How can I modify a blog entry? What's the URL to my blog? Are there alternative ways to post entries? Can I upload content via FTP? For more Q&A see the How do I documentation. How do I post an entry to my blog? Log in to IlohaBlog (if you aren't allready). Click on the New Entry link for blog you want to post to from the list under the Existing Blogs heading (if you haven't allready). This should bring you to the New Blog Entry screen. If you somehow are not on this screen click on the New Entry link at the top of the screen. Give your post a title by filling out the Title field. Enter the body of your post in the Text field. Click on the Enter button at the bottom of the screen You have posted to your blog! For more details see the New Entry documentation. Can I change the way my blog looks? Of course! Check out the Appearance documentation. What is RSS? From: http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=767506 "RSS is an acronym for Rich Site Summary, an XML format for distributing news headlines on the Web, also known as syndication." From: http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/18/dive-into-xml.html "RSS is a format for syndicating news and the content of news-like sites, including major news sites like Wired, news-oriented community sites like Slashdot, and personal weblogs. But it's not just for news. Pretty much anything that can be broken down into discrete items can be syndicated via RSS: the "recent changes" page of a wiki, a changelog of CVS checkins, even the revision history of a book. Once information about each item is in RSS format, an RSS-aware program can check the feed for changes and react to the changes in an appropriate way. RSS-aware programs called news aggregators are popular in the weblogging community. Many weblogs make content available in RSS. A news aggregator can help you keep up with all your favorite weblogs by checking their RSS feeds and displaying new items from each of them." What is the difference between the Auto-format, HTML and Plain text Format options? Auto-Format: Posts retain formatting as they are entered, however, entries can contain HTML. Additional HTML is inserted to maintain formatting. Text entered: line one line two line <b>three</b> Actual output: line one line two line three HTML: Posts are interpreted strictly as HTML. No additional processing is done. Text entered: line one line two <p>line <b>three</b> Actual output: line one line two line three Plain Text: Posts are interpreted strictly as text. HTML is inserted to maintain formatting, however, any HTML present in the content will be displayed as code. Text entered: line one line two line <b>three</b> Actual output: line one line two line <b>three</b> How do I let others post to my blog? See the Authors documentation. How can I modify a blog entry? See the Recent Entries documentation. What's the URL to my blog? It is "http://blogs.iloha.net/Short Name" where Short Name is the first thing you entered when you created the blog. For example, if I created a blog with a Short Name of "bar" and a Blog Name of "Where the Foos Hang Out" the url of my blog will be "http://blog.iloha.net/bar" Are there alternative ways to post entries? Theoretically any client that supports the Moveable Type API should work with IlohaBlog. Effort has also been made towards compatibility with the Blogger API but it less likely to work. We have tested Kung-Log for the macintosh and w.bloggar for windows and found that they work well IlohaBlog. The best thing to do is configure the client to use Moveable Type API. Then set the host to blog.iloha.net and the page/endpoint to /rpc.php