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A reader I've been discussing blog page-design with asks me:

Got one more query for you if you don't mind. For some reason, my page is no longer showing up on the "Updated Weblogs" page, although it does show up on referrals and rankings. I've been tuning a bit and it's possible I deleted something but I don't think so. I also compared my html for the homepage against a backup I have and I didn't see anything obviously out of whack.

I'm guessing maybe it's this bit:

<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"><!-- var imageUrl = "http://rcs.salon.com/weblogStats/count.gif"; var imageTag = "<img src=\"" + imageUrl + "?group=default&usernum=1111&referer=" + escape (document.referrer) + "" height="1" width="1">"; document.write (imageTag); //--></script>

but that's just a guess. Does any Radio expert want to confirm or correct?

categories: radioactive

2:27:38 PM    say what []

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I was having a hell of a time getting design changes to propagate out to my categories. It turned out that in the early days of this blog when I Was experimenting with many of the canned themes and giving each category its own design, these choices decoupled the categories from the home page in terms of templates. Literally this meant that each category had its own #template, #homeTemplate, etc.

What I finally figured out was that removing those files from the category folders forced the categories to resume using the master templates stored in the root /www/ folder.

If I do customize the categories in the future (such as giving the KM category a more business-like design or featuring different blogrolls specific to each category's topic), then I'll be back at trying to maintain multiple template files, but for now simplicity rules the realm.

categories: salonika knowhow metablog radioactive

12:21:17 PM    say what []

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