[COREblog-en] Newbie questions

[Clair Ching]

Frank Scholz wrote:

> welcome to the club ;-)
Thanks!:)
> 
> 
>>I have several questions:
>>1. Is there a total newbie's guide to using CoreBlog?  I have seen some
>>sites but they are in Japanese :(
> 
> there are several How-Tos at coreblog.org --> http://coreblog.org/howtos/
Ok. I will check that out.

> I think I recall something about this on the old
> mailing list.
> Have a look at
> http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.zope.coreblog.english
> and search for Full-entry Feed. Is this still valid?
I couldn't search for it there:(
> 
> 
>>3. How can you add links on the sidebar?
> 
> Via the contents tab, there is the modules folder.
> Take a look at the DTML method categories as an example.
> To active your extension add it to the index_hmtl there.
> But I'm sure somebody made this already and perhaps we
> could share some sidebar extension?
> 
> 
>>4. Is there an easy way to change the skin of the blog?
> 
> depends on the meaning of easy. :-)
> Again via the contents tab, there is the skins folder.
> Copy the defaults folder, change what you want and
> select the skin in the settings, section Skin.
> If you want more than cosmetic changes you need to
> rewrite the DTML code in the new skin folder.
Still kinda clueless on this part:(

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