I believe I am quite experienced now with FW, happily designing and maintaining my site in www.celticcenter.eu. It works well, very nice product! Although I am a bit nervous every time I have to implement an action in FW. Actions are great when they work right away. If they don’t they leave you with a page of non working code you cannot do anything with. But this is not relevant to my problem. Here are my questions:
I’d like to add a page displaying my blog (claudebuzz.blogspot.com) from gmail blogger and I got stuck in puzzling documentation from FW and from gmail.
I failed to find any Layout/Edit Html menu in the blogger interface. I believe I looked in both new and old GUI. So even if I could copy the code I have no idea what I could do with it.
Any help concerning this Blogger action implementation problem?
I just soved the first part of my problem: The “copy code to the clipboard” action button appears after I published my site. I did not upload yet.
I still don’t know what to do with the HTML code, i.e. where to paste it in blogger… Any idea?
Claude Bouillin
On 22 Jan 2012, at 14:39, claude wrote:
Hello everyone!
I believe I am quite experienced now with FW, happily designing and maintaining my site in www.celticcenter.eu. It works well, very nice product! Although I am a bit nervous every time I have to implement an action in FW. Actions are great when they work right away. If they don’t they leave you with a page of non working code you cannot do anything with. But this is not relevant to my problem. Here are my questions:
I’d like to add a page displaying my blog (claudebuzz.blogspot.com) from gmail blogger and I got stuck in puzzling documentation from FW and from gmail.
I failed to find any Layout/Edit Html menu in the blogger interface. I believe I looked in both new and old GUI. So even if I could copy the code I have no idea what I could do with it.
Any help concerning this Blogger action implementation problem?
I am definitely progressing but am still not there and I don’t understand what I am doing wrong.
I now published AND uploaded the newly created page which holds 3 blogger actions: blogger header, blogger posts and blogger archive.
I copy/pasted the html code as you adviced (tx, David, I was blind as I didn’t see the dashboard “Design”/ “edit html” tab) to my own blogger template.
That looks ok… apart the fact that my 3 postings are visible as it should in the blog but NOT visible in the FW uploaded web page.
Here are the links:
The web page you uploaded is not there to reflect the content of your Blog - it is only there as the placeholder (if you like) for the images/graphics that appear in your Blog.
The Blogspot page gets the images from your uploaded bloggersuomi.html page
Once uploaded that page shouldn’t have any links to it as it is not there as a ‘live’ page.
So the answer is - you are not doing anything wrong. The blogspot page is working as it should and now presumably looks like the rest of your site so any links on your site should be to the external blogspot page. Alternatively I think you could display it within an iFrame on your site.
Tx a lot, Dave. You are absolutely right. I missed the whole idea of the FW blogger action which is to configure my blog and not my web site. Using iFrame to point at my blog seems an excellent option since it has now the look an feel of my site, with the exception of the blogger menu bar of the top of the page.
One last question: Is there a way to integrate my own external blog (not necessarily from blogger) into my web page?
Claude Bouillin
On 23 Jan 2012, at 02:17, DeltaDave wrote:
The web page you uploaded is not there to reflect the content of your Blog - it is only there as the placeholder (if you like) for the images/graphics that appear in your Blog.
The Blogspot page gets the images from your uploaded bloggersuomi.html page
Once uploaded that page shouldn’t have any links to it as it is not there as a ‘live’ page.
So the answer is - you are not doing anything wrong. The blogspot page is working as it should and now presumably looks like the rest of your site so any links on your site should be to the external blogspot page. Alternatively I think you could display it within an iFrame on your site.
I meant display within my site. I’d like to have say an iFrame pointing to my blog within up to three pages of my site. Here is what I got after a few tries. I am pretty satisfied with it, so far.