Temporary closing of GandiBlogs

By Ryan on Wednesday 17 January 2007, 12:18 - GandiBlog - Permalink

GandiBlog will officially open its doors this afternoon. The update will cause an interruption in service for this one time only. The blog will go offline at 15:00 Paris time, and will go back online at 16:00.

You will see some changes in your blogs, that may ask you to make some modifications to it

Please read this entire entry if you have a GandiBlog. We will be discussing the additions that will appear after the update.

New widget system

We have taken into account many of your remarks concerning the widgets, and we have greatly improved them. This improvement has an unfortunate side, however - if you have customized your widgets, you must give them a title, they will be erased after the update. You may also reset your widgets if you want to return to the default configuration.

Change in the CSS stylesheet

If you use the theme, "Custom CSS", you may need to update some style attributes:

#categories becomes .categories
#selected becomes .selected
#langs becomes .langs
#syndicate becomes .syndicate
#links becomes .links
#tags becomes #sidebar .tags

Note that this latter must be #sidebar .tags so as to not put it in conflict against a class of the same name.

If you do not use the "Custom CSS" theme, then nothing needs to be changed.

Administration interface

Nearly all the javascript files in the administration interface have been changed. Due to the sometimes odd behavior of certain browsers, they may take on a strange appearance or display errors. The simplest solution to this will be to empty your web browser's cache after the update occurs.

Comments

1. On Thursday 18 January 2007, 18:46 by Name

Can we get a list of the attributes specific to Dotclear's setup? I am been trying to find some documentation on creating my own stylesheet, but have been unable to find a good one in english.

Everthing I find is about installing full thems which I don't think we can install custome thems in Gandi's setup. Maybe in some future version we could store one to be used in our media folder.

2. On Friday 19 January 2007, 07:18 by Ryan

Hi Name,

We are working on just such a sheet! In the meantime, you can use the custom stylesheet (it is a blank stylesheet) to create your own theme - you will find this in the list of thems. What you can do to get started, rather than begin from scratch, is to import the CSS stylesheet of a pre-existing theme into your blank custom stylesheet.

By literally cutting and pasting the CSS stylesheet into your blank sheet, you will be able to toy with the attributes, and see what they are.

One way to see the stylesheet for a theme is to load up a theme that you like, then view the page source. Then, in the code, you will see a line like:

@import url(/themes/gandibar/style.css);

just copy and past the theme's URL to the URL of your blog in the following way:

http://www.gandibar.net/themes/gandibar/style.css

and you will then see the stylesheet for the theme you are looking at in your web browser. By copying and pasting this into your blog's custom theme blank stylesheet, you can import the theme - but you can now edit all of its attributes as you like! Additionally, you can see all of the classes and attributes that you will need to be creative with your blog's look.

Have fun!

3. On Sunday 21 January 2007, 04:19 by carmen

is it just me or is the blog and the entire gandi site impossible to login for the past couple of days? seems the upgrade screwed something up - hopefully the DOTClear upgrade fixes the 'old cache' issue with the blog..

4. On Sunday 21 January 2007, 07:58 by Ryan

Welcome to the bar, Carmen!

Can you tell me the name of your blog/domain please, so I can have a look and see what may be going on with it? I would like to rule out anything else that may be causing login problems for you. Thanks!

5. On Monday 22 January 2007, 04:32 by c

oh, it was my browser. somehow FireFox compiled with SSL, even though theres no SSL USE flag in Gentoo. upgrading to 3.;0 from source and bypassing portage fixed thep roblem..

still have to disable CSS colors though, since the dotclear editor/admin sets a background color but no foreground - so everything is white on white!

6. On Wednesday 12 December 2007, 14:49 by jab

I would like to have my blog at my domain, instead of a subdomain so I get credit for the traffic. How is that possible?

Also can I add code to my blog page? If so, I should be able to add Google AdSense to these pages. Please confirm.

Thank you very much for your help.

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