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created: 1248357077|%e %B %Y, %H:%M
tags: blog dev wikidot
I've just upgraded the blog a bit, so that it looks a lot better visually than it did before.

The main difference is the calendar image with the post date appearing on it, but there are several other subtle changes such as the positioning of tags, and the fact that it now mentions my name as author.

In the future I'm considering asking for some help with the website, once it gets too big for me to manage on my own. That's when the mention of who's posting will be the most helpful (at the moment it's kind of pointless).

The style was actually adapted from another Wikidot blog, and I've even managed to trace it back to what seems like the original designer. The credit for the design goes to those two blogs.

Over the next few days I plan to duplicate the style on the post-specific pages (the pages with the comments underneath the post), but for now they'll remain as they are.

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the calendar icon.

Phil Chett 30 Jul 2009 14:17

glad to see you have added it to your site. Its nice to know my ideas are of use to others. i thank you for the acknowledgement.

Im also glad that you have pointed it to your own site. If i make any changes to the original, or delete it, you wont be effected. Sites that have also used it, but have used my url will be up a creak without a paddle.

I would be interested in seeing the code that you used for employing this method. It might well be a darn sight better than my feeble attempts.

Regards
Phil

leiger 31 Jul 2009 01:19

The code is very similar to that used at http://lajrstf.com/blog:blog, and I don't think I modified it very much. I think the only changes were the date and tag sections…

The page blog:_start includes this ListPages module:

• date format changed slightly to remove timezone
• tagTarget added to ListPages module

[[module ListPages limit="no" category="blog" rss="Cyclo Revolution - Latest Posts" date="@URL" tags="@URL" perPage="3" separate="true"  tagTarget="blog:_start"]]

[[table]]
[[row]][[cell style=" vertical-align:top;border:0px solid;"]]
[[div style="padding-top:0px;  width: 60px; height: 60px; color:green; text-align:center; border: 0px solid ;  background-image:  url( http://cyclods.wikidot.com/local--files/blog:_start/calendar65.png); "]]
[[span style="color:white;font-size:150%;line-height: 0;"]] [[/span]]
[[span style="color:white;font-size:150%;line-height: 9px"]]%%date|%b|agohover%%[[/span]]
[[span style="color:black;font-size:140%;line-height: 34px;"]]%%date|%d|agohover%%[[/span]]
[[span style="color:black;font-size:120%"]]%%date|%Y|agohover%%[[/span]]
[[/div]]
[[/cell]][[cell style="padding-left:20px; border:0px solid silver;"]]
+ %%linked_title%%

%%content{1}%%
by %%author%% ##gray|on %%date|%e %B %Y, %H:%M|agohover%% (%%date|%O ago%%) ##

Tags: %%tags%%

**Comments:** %%comments%%, **Rating:** %%rating%%
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[[/cell]][[/row]]
[[/table]]
[[/module]]

And I try to give credit where it is due :) I could not have created something like this myself! :)

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