Basil’s Blog

Last week, we talked about taking HaloScan comments off your blog and replacing them with Blogger’s standard commenting system. A reason for doing that would be if the Blogger features such as moderation, word verification, “members-only” option, and integrated exporting work better for you than HaloScan’s moderation and IP address banning (exporting is possible, but [...]

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Many, many Blogger (or blogspot) sites use HaloScan for comments. Personally, I don’t care for HaloScan comments … but that’s me.
I used to be a proponent of HaloScan commenting for Blogger. But no longer.
Not because of anything wrong with HaloScan. But because Blogger commenting got better.
Used to be, you had to have a Blogger account [...]

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Lots of blogs have a feature in their sidebar relating to “Recent Comments.” It’s where you can see the most recent 5 or 10 comments that were left. Not all blogs have them, but many do.
TypePad blogs
For TypePad blogs (such as The Alliance), it’s done by:

Click on the Weblogs tab
Click Edit Design for your blog
Under [...]

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Back in February, we offered a copy/paste edition of JavaScript code for Chris Muir’s Day By Day cartoon. The reason is that many blogs cannot display the full cartoon in its native horizontal format. Back in April 2004, Tempus Fugit offered a PHP script that could be added to PHP sites that allowed them to [...]

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Back in February of this year (2006, for those of you from the future), we covered a topic over at my little blog and at the Alliance about speeding up your blog. Lots of people found it useful … which means perhaps I’m not totally useless. Despite what the ex- says.It seems that, as useful [...]

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This topic has been covered before, but I think it needs repeating.
Two Browsers Are Better Than One
Some time ago, we talked about the need to check out your site in multiple browsers. Some of you do check your blog in more than one browser, but so many of you don’t. And it shows.
How does it [...]

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I’ve received questions regarding how to display HaloScan comments inline on a Blogger site. If you recall, we’ve covered how to display HaloScan TrackBacks inline on Blogger, but now there’s a desire to show comments inline. And we’ve been asked to help. So, here goes.
Why?
Someone’s going to bring this up, I’m certain, but Blogger has [...]

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Over at the Alliance HQ, we’ve been covering a series of blogging platforms as alternatives to Blogger. While Blogger is a popular program for beginners and experienced bloggers alike, some people don’t like the platform and either avoid it altogether, or move from it to another service or platform.
Today, we’re looking at another free alternative: [...]

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When you link to another site in one of your posts, you need to ensure you have a proper link.
By that, I mean you need to make sure you have the protocol specified, the domain name, and the specific page (if not the default “home” page of the site) that you’re linking.
For example, let’s say [...]

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Okay, truth be told, I got a PDA. No, I’m not sure why.
Okay, I do know why. To use for work at the Evil Corporation. And I use it at work. I keep my appointments and keep meeting notes and such. And it synchronizes with my PC. At least, it synchronizes with my personal PC [...]

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