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Blogs (web logs)
You can create your own personal Web logs (blogs) using the IBM® Notes® blog template (dominoblog.ntf). After you create a blog application, you can then open it as you would any other Notes® application (NSF) file. From your blog application, you can create and manage content and blog discussions.
Advanced Blog topics
In addition to the initial setup and configuration, there are advanced views, forms, and tasks that you can use to manage your blog.
Configuring blogs
If you have the admin, webadmin, or webcompose role for a blog application, you can configure your blog by using Advanced views.
How can I set up link categories in a blog?
You can create categories for a links, so that they are organized by category in the same way content is categorized. Then, when blog readers browse the website for content on a particular topic, they can browse the links too.

Blogs (web logs)
You can create your own personal Web logs (blogs) using the IBM® Notes® blog template (dominoblog.ntf). After you create a blog application, you can then open it as you would any other Notes® application (NSF) file. From your blog application, you can create and manage content and blog discussions.
- Getting started with Blogs
  View, post, and comment on blogs created with the Notes blog template.
- Blog quick reference
  Quickly find some of the most common and more advanced tasks for Web logs (blogs) and how to get started doing them.
- Advanced Blog topics
  In addition to the initial setup and configuration, there are advanced views, forms, and tasks that you can use to manage your blog.
  - How can I create a blog?
    When you create a blog application, a Site Setup document is created. The information you provide in the Site Setup document is used to populate a Configuration document and a User Profile document, which are created when you save the Site Setup document.
  - How can I secure a blog application?
    You control access to the blog using an Access Control List (ACL) for the blog application, just as you would any for IBM® Notes® database or application.
  - Managing blog resources
    If you have the admin, webadmin, or webcompose role for a blog application, you can manage blog resources using Advanced views.
  - How can I create stylesheets for a blog?
    You can create a stylesheet for your blog.
  - How can I create JavaScript for a blog?
    In addition to the JavaScript™ provided in the blog template, you can create new JavaScript for your blog.
  - How to use HTML templates to control how a blog looks and feels
    HTML templates control how your blog looks and feels. Each template combines HTML with special system tags to display the resulting Web pages in a browser.
  - How can I create an HTML template for blogs?
    You can create HTML templates to supplement the HTML templates that are included in the blog application.
  - Configuring blogs
    If you have the admin, webadmin, or webcompose role for a blog application, you can configure your blog by using Advanced views.
    - How can I set up links in a blog?
      Use Link documents to provide the URL and text for links you want to include in your blog.
    - How can I set up link categories in a blog?
      You can create categories for a links, so that they are organized by category in the same way content is categorized. Then, when blog readers browse the website for content on a particular topic, they can browse the links too.
    - How can I create content categories in a blog?
      In addition to creating a tag when you create a post, you can use Content categories for tagging content (posts) unless your site structure does not match the way you want to tag your content. You can specify an unlimited number of tags for each content document.
    - How can I refresh document security in a blog?
      Content documents get their security settings from the category to which they are assigned. If you make any changes to how security is set up for a category, you must refresh the document security for any documents assigned to that category to apply the new settings.
    - How can I create blog user profiles?
      You can create a user profile for anyone who will post content in the blog application.
    - How can I create security groups for blog documents?
      Security groups apply specific security settings to a category. You use security groups to secure categories of documents. When you create a security group for a category, any document in that category inherits the security settings for that category security group.
    - How can I create a web client that can be used to administer my blog?
      The blog template includes a default Web browser client that you can use to administer your blog from Microsoft® Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox, or you can create your own Web client.
    - How can I update the information in my blog configuration document?
      A Configuration document was created for you when you created your blog, populated with the information you provided in the Site Setup document.
    - How can I delete blog configuration documents?
      When you delete a Configuration document, you can delete the associated User Profile and Location documents as well.
    - How can I set up blog site services, templates and statistics?
      The blog template (dominoblog.ntf) includes wizards to help you set up and manage your blog.
    - How can I provide meaningful names for blog posts and comments?
      By default, a system generated name that contains a combination of numbers and letters is created for your content document, but you can give your posts and comments a more meaningful name.
    - How can I view information for the agents used to manage my blog information?
      You can verify the agents used to manage information in your blog.
    - How can I manage records for banned IP addresses?
      When you ban input from an IP address, you also create an IP Record. You can then use the IP Record if you wish to remove the ban from an IP address later.
  - Does the blog support RSS Feeds?
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  - What is the difference between using categories and tags?
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How can I set up link categories in a blog?

You can create categories for a links, so that they are organized by category in the same way content is categorized. Then, when blog readers browse the website for content on a particular topic, they can browse the links too.

About this task

Procedure

Open your blog application (myblog.nsf, for example).
Click Advanced.
In the new blog tab that opens, expand the Configuration section, and then click Link Categories.
Click Add Link > Category.

Complete the following fields, and then click Save & Close:

Table 1. Link category fields
Field	Action
Link Category Name	Enter a name for the category
Category Order	Enter the numerical order of the category to sort categories in the categories list
Include in Category Links Output?	Select Yes to include this category in the list of categories that displays in the blog.

Results

Tip: You assign a category to a link when you create a Link document, by selecting from a list in the Category field. If you do not create any link categories, there will be no categories from which to choose.