Serendipity
Posted on Tuesday, May 16, 2006 at 6:23 PM
Ever heard of it ? No ? Well, it's quite a nice blogging tool available here.
Recently I tried out an installation of Serendipity. Installation was a breeze, very quick, and no errors.
However, next day I couldn't log onto the blog despite being able to log onto the admin area.
On checking the .htaccess file in the root folder all entries were set to "deny all". Renaming .htacess to .htaccess1 cured the problem, and the blog could be viewed as normal.
However (again), only for a short time, as then it went back to not being displayed. Even when I have managed to display the blog there are lines of coding at the top which get worse each time the page is refreshed. Ah ! When I posted a second entry all seems (!?!?!?!) OK and the display is fairly static.
Next I tried to add a graphic. First of all I had to upload the image using Add media, then inserted it. And lo and behold it was there. The only thing I then had to do was to change float left to float right. The image formatting allows text to flow around it, but actually placing it within a paragraph seems a bit tricky. Still, I suppose I can't expect everything to be just as I want it.
I have also tried importing the posts from my church web log (which uses WordPress and it worked quite automatically !
Then I tried downloading the Bex01 template zip file, available here , unzipped it and uploaded it to the server under into the templates folder. Changed some of the styles to use this template, and it's GREAT ! Now I have decided to use the template on my own TAMB blog site, as you can see,
There is just one thing I really would appreciate, and that is a spell checker in Serendipity.
