tutorial quickies


crash course in getting the template and applying it to your blog
1. Copy the code of the template: right-click on the code with your mouse -> choose select all (this will highlight the code) -> right-click on the highlighted text -> choose copy.
2. Log in to blogger and go to your blog-editing area -> click on template -> delete the old template (everything that appears in the text area) and paste in the code of the new template (by right-clicking and choosing paste) -> click save changes -> go back to posts and hit publish.


crash course in getting the template and applying it to your diary
1. Copy the code of the template: right-click on the code with your mouse -> choose select all (this will highlight the code) -> right-click on the highlighted text -> choose copy.
2. Go here (and log in if you haven't already) -> delete the old template (everything that appears in the text area) and paste in the code of the new template (by right-clicking and choosing paste) -> click change. Then repeat the process with the older.html template code here.


crash course in saving images
1. Right-click on the image -> choose save picture as... -> select the folder you want to store it in (and make sure you remember afterwards where you put it) -> click save.
2. Upload the saved image(s) to your account at whatever host you're using (usually they have tutorials on how to do this). If your blog/diary resides at a free blogspot or diaryland account and you don't have anywhere else to host your images, get an account at one of the free hosts that allow hot-linking of images (there are links to some of them further down).
3. Change the image paths in the template to link to the image at the host where you've uploaded it to. I.e find where it says in the code something like http://www.hot.ee/madwoman/folder/image.jpg, and change it to http://www.your-host.com/your-username/your-folder/image.jpg. Not -exactly- that, of course. ;)


free image hosts
As far as I know, the ones linked to here do allow hotlinking of images (i.e the linking of images to sites residing elsewhere on the web), but this is of course always subject to change. This is by no means a definitive list, there are many more out there.
ourworld.cs.com
lycos.co.uk
freewebs.com
boomspeed.com
homestead.com
villagephotos.com
pixhost.com
strike9.com


crash course in customising the blog template code to apply to the archive index file
(note: this applies only if you have your archive index listing on a separate page, e.g yourname.blogspot.com/yourname_archive.html.)
1. Log in to blogger and go to your blog-editing area -> click on template -> go to archive index file -> delete the old template and paste in the code of the template of your choice -> scroll down in the text area till you reach the <Blogger> tags.
2. Delete the following tags: <Blogger>, <BlogDateHeader>, <$BlogDateHeaderDate$>, </BlogDateHeader>, <a name="<$BlogItemNumber$>"></a>, everything between the <div class="byline"> and its closing </div> tags, including those tags themselves; </Blogger>. (Make sure you don't delete any other <div> tags, as that -will- mess up the template.)
3. Now delete the <$BlogItemBody$> tag, and in its place paste the following: <Blogger> <a href="<$BlogArchiveLink$>"> <$BlogArchiveName$> </a> </Blogger>.
4. Click save changes -> go back to the posts section and hit publish.