Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Integrating Blogger Into Your Website

I've been doing some research
into how to integrate Blogger
into your website.

Here's an article:

Integrating Blogger Into Your Website

I'm researching this because I'm
trying to figure out how the URL
part is done.

How is it that Blogger is able to
work with a sub-directory as mentioned
in the article?

The author of the above article mentions
making this URL the URL for your blog:

http://www.example.com/trends/

From a techical point of view, I don't
understand how this works.

OK. OK. I just found out how it works.

Seems that Blogger will publish to your
website via FTP. Very clever!

In order for this to work, Blogger needs
the following conditions to be present:

  1. You need to pick what Blogger
    calls a classic template.
  2. You have to set up an FTP directory
    on the web server where your website
    is kept
  3. You need to tell blogger the name
    of the FTP sub-directory and the name
    you wish to call your main page for
    your blog, for example, blog.html
  4. You need to give blogger an FTP
    login

Here's where you might theoretically
place your blog on your website:

www.example.com/blog/blog.html

Of course, the above is just the
main page for your blog. Other
pages, such as individual blog
posts, will have URLs that are
automatically generated by Blogger.

These are the general ideas you need
to incorporate to publish your blog
on your website.

If I have time, I'll get more into
specifics later.

Ed Abbott

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