Stupid blog questions

(i've had problems with "cookies not enabled" from some sites also, when yes they bloody are you robo-moron!)

and how do you change alignment of text etc?

so many questions..

< P Align="Center / Right" > for your text alignment needs (assuming you're hardcoding; that is, typing in all the HTML tags yourself). Everything's left-justified by default. If you want text in a paragraph to be centered or right-justified ... well, duh.

(Just make sure to get rid of the spaces after & before the pointy brackets.) (P stands for Paragraph, by the way. Not to say you didn't know that, but it's better to be super-obvious than assume, which, of course, would make me look like an ass.)

Here's an HTML Cheatsheet. Webmonkey (the site I'm linking to) should also offer additional help w/ your webbing needs.

Free Meta Tag Generator

Google - Submit your URL

For other Search Engine submissions try either Add Me - Search Engine Submission or Submit Express

Also Alta Vista - Basic Submit

Dunno how to do this in Netscape et al, but I can't imagine it's much different.

You need to find a comments host - I used to use netcomments, but I think they're gone down. enetation looks like the best bet.

Enetation gives you two javascript codes when you follow the 'generate codes' link. The first goes in the head of the basic html file (do this on the 'make custom changes' page). The second needs to be in the entry template ('change the format of each individual entry'). Replace 'MANUAL' with '%%url%%'.

For this to work, each entry needs a unique URL (goes in the 'url' box on the make-new-entry and edit/delete-entries pages, unsurprisingly). I used to use the date reverse-ordered - today would be 030626 - and then add alphabet letters as necessary if there's more than one entry in a day.

What the comment link actually says is determined on enetation's 'settings' page.

(I hope this works - please tell me if it doesn't, and I'll try to work out what I got wrong.)

Anyone know how to do expandable posts on Tumblr? Or is that antithetical to the spirit of Tumblr? Mind you, I don't really know how to do it on other blogging platforms, either, but it looks like there are tutorials out there for doing it on Blogger, at least.

Speaking of expandable whosits, is there an easy-to-implement, non-JS expandable whosits where the "READ MORE AFTER TEH JUMP" link doesn't show up in the permalinked post?

Hey, does anyone know of any blog templates w/ comments that feel more Flash-y than html-y. To be a little less confusing, I'm wanting comments to work like Tweets (you know, minus the character limit).

Have you looked into third party commenting plugins like Disqus or IntenseDebate?

not until now, thx! IntenseDebate looks promising.

ok, so i think i'm probably going to need to ask a web designer friend to do this because there are two things i want and i don't know if wordpress can do this:
1. what I said above, I want comments to post v easily, like tweets
2. i want readers to be able to pull down and minimize comments without leaving the main page

it's 2023

if I want to host my own blog, what's decent software-wise? maybe even just static content I generate and dump to a hosted bucket

Like on yoru own sever?

Think Wordpress has been the MS Office of the blogging world for a good decade now, do the alternatives even exist now? No idea.

yeah? Ghost has a fair number of users iirc

I was looking for maybe a smaller hacky one