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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 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.

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 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.

About this task

Use the steps below to provide additional information in your Configuration document.

Procedure

Open your blog application (myblog.nsf for example).
Click Advanced.
In the new tab that opens, expand the Configuration section, and then click Configuration Document.
Double-click the name of the blog you are creating to open the Configuration document, and then click Edit.
Complete any of the information requested on the following tabs, and then click Save & Close:
- Site Settings - Provide information about the site, define the home page, content creation and image galleries.
- Templates - Set the templates for standard page, comments and images.
- Search - Configure how search results appear in the blog site.
- Formatting - Define the appearance of lists, categories, and standard navigation.
- Syndication - Enable RSS feeds, email subscriptions, and automatic XML-RCP pings, and set up podcasting.
- Discussions - Determine how formatting and display of discussions, including validation required and enabling the use of a gravatar (globally recognized avatar).
- Logging - Specify whether to log website, RSS and referrer hits, and if logging, where to store the files.
- Web Client - Specify and set up the Web client you will use to manage the blog.

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