Blogging at The Political Forums

[Chris]

@IMPress Polly, once you get yours up, post in this thread and ask to have it added to main tPF blog page.

[Chloe]

@Chloe Thank you for adding your blog!

I did ask for new blog links to be posted here so that members would be able to access them before I make the manual additions.

I will now add it to the tPF home page and our central list of blogs.

thank you so much

[Chris]

thank you so much

I see you now, @Chloe, on the tPF blog page.

[fyrenza]

To attract new membership, focusing the blogs on Politics, along with adding the all-important Tags, is a FAB idea!

IF y'all (Admin/Mods/VIPs) have someone that knows all about "tags," you may want to enlist their aid,
for it's the cheapest, fastest way to being "seen" on such as Google Search.

Great addition to the site. Kudos!

[IMPress Polly]

Here's the link: http://thepoliticalforums.com/blogs/monkeyqueen/

It may be a few days before I find the time to add an entry, but just wanted to get it on the roster.

[IMPress Polly]

Could you add it to the list?

Anyway, I do have one more small issue: I've made my first post now, but had major problems with the spacing, as you can see. The spacing appears correctly on the edit page, yet when I publish it, it comes out with half the paragraphs lacking separation regardless of what I do. How do I solve that?

(Anyway, if you don't like my header folks, don't worry: I'll probably change it from time to time.)

[Chris]

@IMPress Polly, you need to mention admin: @ADMIN.


Yea the spacing is strange on your blog post. I'd have to see text entered to say for sure what it is. One thing you can do to force spacing between paragraphs, is switch from the Visual editor to the Text editor -- there are two tabs above editor to the right. You use the text editor to enter HTML code. Then between paragraphs put the following HTML line break code:

<br/>

[IMPress Polly]

Omg, I figured it out, Chris! I am SO proud of myself right now. Everyone else could probably have figured this sort of thing out in a heartbeat, but I'm TERRIBLE with computer code and technical stuff like that, so for me this was a big accomplishment. The precise code you gave me didn't do anything, but I fiddled around with it and figured out that <div> has to come before each paragraph break. When I entered a simple <br> after that, it worked on all the paragraphs. So check it out now, peeps: it now looks like it should.

Anyway, @ADMIN, could you add my blog (located here: http://thepoliticalforums.com/blogs/monkeyqueen/ ) to the official roster please? I'd appreciate it!

[Chris]

Looks great!!

[Captain Obvious]

I used to have a blog page over on DCJ before I got banned. My first entry was on why I hate blogs, reposted here with permission from... me:

(nothing is meant toward you or your blog, @IMPress Polly )

I don't get blogs.

I really $#@!ing don't. Someone sets up a blog....

Blog - it sounds $#@!ing stupid already. Blog... blog. What a $#@!ing stupid name.

Anyway, here's that... blog. Someone decides to ramble on about something. Anything. 3 or 4 paragraphs of someone menstruating their $#@!ing opinion, on and on.

Who $#@!ing cares?

Who sits there and reads blogs? Like anybody can be glued to some random $#@!s opinion. At least with message boards, you can interact. Like this jerkoff's opinion is something special, and mine isn't. This asswipe has a blog. That validates his or her opinion.

$#@! off.

Yeah, I know - some blogs.... blog.... anyway, some blogs have spots where you can leave a message. Big $#@!ing deal, I'm one reaction of many. And you have to wait a $#@!ing week until that jackass gets back to you - if he ever does.

If I'm digging around and I see blogs, $#@! it. I move on.