How to deliver a native Xara Blog
Assumptions
The Blogger:
1.
has access to a Xara Desktop Application
2.
publishes from a given Blog Template as nnnnn.htm
sequentially from 00001
3.
follows a similar design filenaming such as yyyymmdd-
Blog00001 - Title of Blog.xar for easy revisions
4.
has access to a ../blogs/ folder on the server
5.
need never touch the main website
The website publisher, separately:
1.
can set up an IFRAME named BlogPoint on any pages
2.
can link to ../blogs/nnnnn.htm
Concept
Any blog is isolated and need never require the main website
to be updated. That said the matter of adding Links requires
some cunning:
•
The means to flag up an ever-changed “Latest” Post.
•
A way to add Links for any new Blogs since the site was
published.
Approach
Put the majority of housekeeping into a 00000.htm webpage
and reference that as the main website default IFRAME
address.
Navigation
Linkages across Blogs themselves simply need to use the
nnnnn.htm filename.
Presentation
The use of a Vertical Scrolling website with a Text Area that
will create new pages automatically is recommended.
A Scrolling site only ever needs an index page.
Publishing the Scrolling site with a filename of nnnnn.htm
keeps the index name within the Xara design and prevents
overwriting any prior Blogs, provided the incrementing is
always followed.
Layout
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IFRAME: 490w x 800h (px) to accommodate a special
vertical scrollbar (CSS coded)
•
Blog Page: 480w x 800h (px)
•
Blog Text Area: 460w x 800h (px)
•
Blog Title and its backdrop:
o
Sticky
o
Repeat on all Pages
o
Repel Text Under
•
Blog Footer Controls and their backdrop:
o
Sticky
o
Repeat on all Pages
o
Repel Text Under
•
Blog Controls:
o
Previous Blog
o
Previous Blog Page (Link to <Previous page>)
o
Top of Blog (Link to <Top of page>)
o
Next Blog Page (Link to <Next page>)
o
Next Blog