My Radio Notes

My Radio Notes

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Starting up my Salon blog

Purchase Radio Userland Salon.
Install Radio Salon into a folder separate from my Radio 8 for dws.us.
Launch Radio Salon and complete basic info.
Copy "My Radio Notes" from dws.us to start these notes.
Set my blog name and descripton.
Define shortcuts:
dws. = <a href="mailto:don2002@istrick.com">dws</a>.
dws.salon = <a href="http://blogs.salon.com/0001007/">dws.Salon</a>
dws.us = <a href="http://www.dws.us/weblog/">dws.us</a>
pithy1 = Can one be extraordinary, without being different?
tellme = Tell <a href="mailto:don2002@istrick.com">me</a> what you think.
whoisdws = Who is <a href="http://blogs.salon.com/0001007/stories/2002/07/24/whoIsDws.html">dws</a>?.
Copy most of my Navigator links from dws.us.
Make my FIRST post to this blog (pointing to these notes).
Uncheck use File URLs to make images appear on the Desktop site.

Notes

Salon Blog Tips, by Rogers Cadenhead
Radio Userland Tips, by Rogers Cadenhead

Notes from my Radio blog on dws.us Install and setup

Chg RadioPoint template: nums over navs.
Uncheck use File URLs.
Define shortcuts:
dws. = <a href="mailto:don2002@istrick.com">dws</a>.
pithy1 = Can one be extraordinary, without being different?
tellme = Tell <a href="mailto:don2002@istrick.com">me</a> what you think.
Chg Home Page template: add categories at top,
FIRST: in the <HEAD> section, just below <title><%title%></title> add
<base href="<%radio.macros.weblogUrl ()%>">
Later this <base> tag was commented, kept for reference only.
SECOND: after the </font> tag at the end of the editorsOnlyMenu macro line add
<br>
<a style="color:white; text-decoration:none;" href="<%radio.macros.weblogUrl ()%>categories/economy/">Economy</a> .
<a style="color:white; text-decoration:none;" href="/">Home</a> .
<a style="color:white; text-decoration:none;" href="<%radio.macros.weblogUrl ()%>categories/jobsearch/">Job Search</a> .
<a style="color:white; text-decoration:none;" href="<%radio.macros.weblogUrl ()%>categories/play/">Play</a> .
<a style="color:white; text-decoration:none;" href="<%radio.macros.weblogUrl ()%>categories/politics/">Politics</a> .
<a style="color:white; text-decoration:none;" href="<%radio.macros.weblogUrl ()%>categories/inewsRrisd/">RRISD</a> .
<a style="color:white; text-decoration:none;" href="<%radio.macros.weblogUrl ()%>categories/software/">Software</a> .
<a style="color:white; text-decoration:none;" href="<%radio.macros.weblogUrl ()%>stories/"><i>Stories</i></a> .
<a style="color:white; text-decoration:none;" href="<%radio.macros.weblogUrl ()%>categories/switch/">Switch</a> .
<a style="color:white; text-decoration:none;" href="<%radio.macros.weblogUrl ()%>categories/think/">Think</a> .
<a style="color:white; text-decoration:none;" href="<%radio.macros.weblogUrl ()%>categories/trouble/">Trouble</a> .
<a style="color:white; text-decoration:none;" href="<%radio.macros.weblogUrl ()%>categories/work/">Work</a>
Chg Home Page template: add for Sale and pithy though lines just below userland.gif.
this
<td valign="top" width="98">
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td><a href="http://www.userland.com"><%radio.macros.imageref ("/system/images/weblogDefault/userLand.gif")%></a></td>
is replaced by this
<td valign="top">
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td width="100%" align="right"><a href="http://www.userland.com"><%radio.macros.imageref ("/system/images/weblogDefault/userLand.gif")%></a>
<br>My Isuzu Truck is <strong><A href="<%radio.macros.weblogUrl ()%>stories/2002/06/29/forSaleIsuzuTruck.html" target="tmp">for Sale</a>!</strong>
<br>"pithy1"</td>
Chg Home Page template: add My Resume section just above Calendar macro.
<div align="center"><strong>Job Search</strong></div>
<div align="center" class="small">
<a href="<%radio.macros.weblogUrl ()%>misc/dws-resume/dws-resume-200205.pdf"><i>My Resume</i></a> (pdf)
<br><a href="<%radio.macros.weblogUrl ()%>misc/Community Overview Jun 2002.pdf">Austin Economy</a> (pdf)
<br><a href="<%radio.macros.weblogUrl ()%>stories/2002/07/07/jobsearch5SimpleSecretsToL.html">5 Secrets</a>
<br><a href="<%radio.macros.weblogUrl ()%>stories/2002/06/29/jobsearchBehavioralIntervi.html">Behavioral Questions</a>
<br><a href="<%radio.macros.weblogUrl ()%>stories/2002/06/29/jobsearchBookmarks.html">Bookmarks</a>
<br><a href="<%radio.macros.weblogUrl ()%>stories/2002/06/28/jobsearchInterviewQuestion.html">Interview Questions</a>
<br><a href="<%radio.macros.weblogUrl ()%>2002/05/05.html">The Way of Transition</a> </div>
<hr size="1">
Chg Item template: add comments.
add <%commentLink%> after <%editButton%>
Chg Item template: add Google It!.
add <%radio.macros.googleIt (<%itemNum%>)%> after <%commentLink%>
My Salon Item template:
<table width="100%" cellpadding="6">
<tr>
<td valign="top" bgcolor="gainsboro" width = "100%"><br>
<div class="itemTitle"><b><%itemTitle%></b></div><%itemText%>
<div align="right"><font class="small" size="-1" color="gray"><%when%> <%permalink%> <%commentLink%></font></div>
</td>
<td valign="top" align="right" nowrap>
<%enclosure%>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
Chg Edit Box size (9 to 10).
Chg Desktop Website home page to display 9 categories per row rather than the 3 per row.
In the Radio application choose Tools->Developers->Jump.
Copy and paste radio.html.addCategoryCheckboxes and click OK:
Find local (cols = 4) and change it to local (cols = 11)
Then click the Compile button and refresh the desktop website home page.
Upstream to FTP and back to weblogs.com. Ref.
Turn off file URLs to make images appear for local site. Ref.
Chg Navigator Links.
<navigator>
<item name="A List Apart" pagename="http://www.alistapart.com/"/>
<item name="Archipelago" pagename="http://archipelago.phrasewise.com/"/>
<item name="DJango Music" pagename="http://www.djangomusic.com/"/>
<item name="HYCW" pagename="http://www.healyourchurchwebsite.com/"/>
<item name="I, Cringley" pagename="http://www.pbs.org/cringely/"/>
<item name="Instructional Technology" pagename="http://www.digitalmedievalist.com/it/"/>
<item name="MacInTouch" pagename="http://macintouch.com"/>
<item name="MacUpdate" pagename="http://www.macupdate.com"/>
<item name="Neighborhood" pagename="/misc/weblogNeighborhood.html"/>
<item name="Netcraft" pagename="http://www.netcraft.com/"/>
<item name="Nigel in Europe" pagename="http://www.nigelineurope.com/"/>
<item name="OSXFAQ" pagename="http://www.osxfaq.com/"/>
<item name="PythonCard" pagename="http://pythoncard.sourceforge.net/"/>
<item name="SchoolBlogs" pagename="http://www.schoolblogs.com/"/>
<item name="Scripting News" pagename="http://scripting.com"/>
<item name="Shifted Librarian" pagename="http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/"/>
<item name="Srichinmoy" pagename="http://deep.srichinmoy.tv/"/>
<item name="Slashdot" pagename="http://slashdot.org/"/>
<item name="Standard" pagename="http://www.thestandard.net/"/>
<item name="Stocks" pagename="http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=aapl+dell+gtw+hpq+msft+rhat+slb+wcome&d=v1"/>
<item name="TidBits" pagename="http://www.tidbits.com/"/>
<item name="VersionTracker" pagename="http://versiontracker.com"/>
<item name="Yahoo Groups" pagename="http://groups.yahoo.com/"/>
<item name="-" pagename=""/>
<item name="Andy" pagename="http://www.347.com/"/>
<item name="Jeff" pagename="http://radio.weblogs.com/0001018/"/>
<item name="Jon" pagename="http://radio.weblogs.com/0100887/"/>
<item name="-" pagename=""/>
<item name="Abbi" pagename="http://istrick.net/abbi/"/>
<item name="Conner" pagename="http://istrick.net/conner/"/>
<item name="Ben" pagename="http://istrick.net/ben/"/>
</navigator>

Radio Progress Marcheth On. Putting a Radio post's categories on the web page

"Jake Savin [jake@userland.com] posted in his comments pointers to:

a macro: Drop listCategoriesForPost.txt into your Macros folder.
the code for your Item template that calls it:

<%local (adrpost = @weblogData.posts.["<%paddedItemNum%>"]); listCategoriesForPost (adrpost)%>

Thanks, Jake! A better way than mine: logic pushed from the template to the macro." [a klog apart]

I may try this one, too, although I'm more intrigued by liveTopics since it also builds an index of posts by category. (Speaking of which, Marc and Matt - I'll get back to trying the installations as soon as I can.)

[The Shifted Librarian]