Web log: a shared on-line journal where people can post diary entries about their personal experiences and hobbies; "postings on a blog are usually in chronological order". It is a good tool to communicate and keep in touch with your customers, friends.
Even you need a basic website, you still need BLOG in order to connect to your customers, your friends. Specially, express your ideas. Promote your products & services !
A blog is a
wonderful tool for anyone looking to improve his or her writing skills. Why?
Because it forces you to write, day after day. If you are an aspiring writer
(freelance or otherwise), a blog is even more important, because it works as
a marketing platform where you can expose your writing, build your audience
and network with people inside your market segment.
myNet.Office blog website can contain heavy text, text with
fonts, format tables, columns, rows, color, pictures embedded.. While other
common
Blog websites use plain text webpage for blogs. For example, the Blog in this
picture: Travel the World - to Japan is a plain text blog. VS
Introducing MyFlower.com is a heavy text Blog. You can see the difference
between two blog format. The reason why many Blog sites can't contain
colorful formatted text blogs, only plain text. Because the website database
can store color formatted text. Or these blog sites don't have powerful web
editor like myNet.Word.
The benefit of colorful heavy text Blog, like the blog Introducing
MyFlower.com, is that it allows you to market and promote your products
and services to the next level.
NOTE: Blog can be dangerous if allowed
defamation, libel, gossips.
Picture: Click on main menu BLOG. A general view of myNet.Office Blog displays the current 2009-03 posts. There are 2
article posts in March. This Blog has posts in months January, February, and
March 2009.
DESCRIPTION
- This Blog page displays all the posts of the current months = 2009-03.
There are 2 posts, and 1 comment in 2009-03. In month 2009-02, there are 2
posts.
- It is a scroll list of posts. Default is to
display 5 posts. You can select to display 1, 2, 5... posts per page like
product catalog. We make scroll list for Blog because sometimes there are
many blog article posts. Each is long. The users have to scroll down the
blog page. Now, they can shorten the view by 2 blog posts per page.
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Expand and close the Comments, Post Comments.
- Permalink = click will open that particular post. The same task
when you click on the right menu of Archive or Recent Post.
- Recent Posts & Recommend Posts
Recent Posts = Display all posts in the current
month, in this case is March.
Recommend Posts = are the posts the admin
website can set up in the database some previous posts that the web admin
thinks users should read. For example, the February post =
Vintages Value
List for February, 2009, is recommended by the web admin to users.
- Archive: All the Posts are grouped in
the tree folders. Click on each post to load and view.
- All User's Comments after posted are
pending and reviewed by the web Admin to allow display or not.
- Each Blog Post has its own comment submit form. User clicks on
to post comment, or see comment.
Step by step to Create new
Blog for website
In general,
there are 3 steps:
- Create a top menu navigation named BLOG. The Insert Blog tool page in it.
- Create the Posts for the Blog.
- Learn to manage your Blog.
STEP
: Create a web page Blog
on the top menu navigation
- From main menu [Net.Page] -> [New Page] in order
to create a new web page.
- At Fname, type BLOG
- Next, select the round button Main Menu so that this
Blog displays on the top main menu. In the editor content, type
This is Blog page. Just for information, this
will not display. Then click on [Save] button, near Fname, in
order to save this Blog page first. You will see a message window pops up.
Now you have the web page BLOG.
- Finally, from [Insert] main menu, select [Blog]. A
GUI pops up. Click on [Insert] button to insert the BLOG Tool into
this base. DONE!
After inserted the Blog Tool, you will see nothing posted until you
Create/Add new Blog Article Post.
Check the result from the website, you will see the BLOG on top menu of your
website. The BLOG page looks like the first picture displayed BLOG view main
page. But it is empty until you begin to create/add the blog posts.
Picture: Steps to create a BLOG page on the top menu navigation. See
the result of BLOG page from the first picture.
: Create/Add a new Article Post for
BlogAfter inserted the BLOG tool into your website, now let's create a blog called: Introducing MyFlower.com you saw in the Blog screen picture.
Picture: This screen shows you steps to create a new blog post. First, select [New Blog] to create new post. In myNet.Word, you create a blog file, like you create a webpage. Then select [Save As Blog] to save the Blog with its blog title.
1) Create new blog file: from [File] -> [New Blog] -> Enter in Fname input box = Blog1-03. It is hidden behind the File menu. In the content of myNet.Word, you design the post. Use Table icon divides the edit content into many different sections. Design the post content, insert the pictures...After done, click
Save button to savethis post file name = Blog1-03. It is stored in File Manager. So that you can always retrieve and re-edit again.
2) Save the Blog Post and Create new Blog Title for this post. From [File] menu. Select [Save As Blog] a GUI pops up. Enter the Blog Tile = Introducing MyFlower.com. Then click [Save As Blog]. DONE! See the result of this post in the first blog screen.
NOTE: After created new blog, it is not posted yet until you set its STATUS= accept in the Blog database = x_blog.
The next step we will learn how to manage Blog.
:Manage
your Blog In this step 3, we will show you how to manage your Blog Database. Such as, you change the STATUS of the blog posts, user's comments, re-edit the bog posts, delete the blog posts, recommend blog posts...
There are 2 databases x_blog and x_blogcomment.
x_blog = Stores all web blog posts created by web admin
x_blogcomment = Stores all web blog comments posted by web people.
First, take a look at x_blog the Blog database.
Picture: Manage Blog from x_blog database. From Search box, type 2009-03 -> select category = Blog Group. It lists all blog posts in 2009-03. myNet.Dbase can store data that contain plain text, high formatted text with fonts, colors and picture, like field BLOGDESC called heavy data. Light data field, like EMAIL, BLOGDATE, is plain text, number.
NOTE: myNet.Dbase can store colorful pictures, and heavy formatted Text with embedded tables, rows, columns, cells, font, color in Text. It is built in a smart reading computer algorithm that scans and reads all text, fonts, color, picture of heavy text, like BLOGDESC of this article My Flower, and then re-saves in database format data called binary data that database can understand. This is the main difference between myNet.Office Blogs VS. Other plain text web page Blogs website.
Manage the Blog Post created by web Admin from database x_blog
You learn how to allow a blog post published or pending. And re-commend a blog post for reading.
| FIELDS | DESCRIPTION |
| BID | The Blog ID - the Primary Key. It is auto increment key. Every time you add a blog Post, it increases to 1. |
| BLOGFILE | It is the name of new Blog File you created in myNet.Word. You enter the name of Blog File in Fname input box. For example Blog1-03 is the Blog File for the post = Introducing to MyFlower.com. |
| BLOGGROUP | It is the month used for all blog posts in that month. It is displayed as Tree Menu you see in the right column. For example, 2009-03 is the Blog Group for all blog posts in March. |
| BLOGTITLE | The title of that blog. For example, Blog Title = Introducing to MyFlower.com |
| BLOGDATE | The date of the blog post is created. For example the blog Introducing to MyFlower.com is created in 2009-03-05. It is internal used, not displaying on web blog. |
| BLOGDATETIME | The date and time of the blog post is created. For example the blog Introducing to MyFlower.com is created in 2009-03-05 15:56. It displays on web blog, beside Author, who created the blog post. |
| AUTHOR | Name of the web admin, who logins website to create the blog post. In this case name is Admin, or David. It reads from database x_admin. |
| Email of the web admin, who logins website to create the blog post. In this case name is admin@mynetoffice.com. It reads from database x_admin. | |
| STATUS | After the web blog post is created, it is in STATUS = pending for approval. When you update STATUS = accept then the Blog is posted. |
| BLOGDESC | It is a Tex type that can contain up to 64000 characters. BLOGDESC is used to save the blog post content. This Blog database can contain graphic picture, text, font, color. |
| ISRECOMMEND | The value = yes, no. It is used to display blog posts that are recommended for readers not in the current month. If the post is in the current month, ignore this value. It is automatically displaying all blogs in current month, in this case is March. For example the blog post = About an online MyRestaurant.com - A new innovative and creative restaurant in February is a recommended blog post to read. It is in the Recommend Posts. There are 3 recommended reading posts in this example picture you see at the top page. |
After you have created a blog post, it doesn't display yet
because of its STATUS=pending. In general, you use the x_blog
database in order to publish the blog post from STATUS=pending to STATUS
= accept. You also use to publish the blog post to recommend reading by
turn its STATUS = yes. Default is = no.
Manage User's Submit Comments from
the Blog Comment Database
User's submit comments from the Blog must be in STATUS = pending for review
before allowing published.
Picture: Database x_blogcomment stores all user's comments
submitted from the Blog. The database x_blogcomment is setup as
1-to-Many relationship with database x_blog.
Which means 1 blog post from database x_blog can have
many user's comments stored in database x_blogcomment.
x_Blogcomment Description
The database that stores all user's comments submitted from Blog.
| BCID | The primary key. It is auto increment key. Every time you add a blog Post, it increases to 1. |
| BID | The primary key of database x_blog. It stored the Blog Id of the blog post from x_blog when the user posted a comment for that blog post. |
| BLOGTITLE | It stored the Blog Title of the blog post from x_blog when the user posted a comment for that blog post. |
| BCCDATETIME | It stored the Time of user's comment for that blog article post. |
| NAME, EMAIL, WEBSITE | Of user who posted a comment. |
| STATUS | = accept, reject, pending. After user submitted a comment, it is pending not displaying until the web admin approve the comment in order to prevent situation user posts abuse comments. |
| BCCOMMENT | Can contain up to 65000 characters of user's comment. |
In general, this step show you that to allow user's posting comment, all
you need is turn the STATUS = accept for that comment. Then that user
comment is displaying on website blog.
RE-EDIT THE BLOG
Let's say you want to change, update the blog post = Introducing MyFlower.com. What steps you will be doing are:
1) Open that Blog File from File Manager: From [File Manager] -> Select and click on the filename = Blog1-03 loading in myNet.Word. You update info. Then Save.
2) Use [Save As Blog] to change the Blog Title. Then save the blog file. Even you don't change the Blog Title, you must select [Save As Blog] to Save in Blog database.
To re-edit user's comment, open the x_Blogcomment that update the field BCCOMMENT.
DELETE THE BLOG, USER'S COMMENT
Open the x_blog database to delete that blog post. It will not post on website. But the blog file is still in File Manager. To delete user's comment, delete from database x_Blogcomment.
Picture: File Manage stores all files created from myNet.Word including web page, Logo, Blog, Template files. We click on the
to take out the field
DESCRIPTION so that you don't see its contents.- Blog is a powerful tool for marketing. myNet.Office's Blog lets you create not just plain text but also table formatted text with colorful font, picture embedded.
- It is your own Blog at your own website. People don't have to jump to other Blogs.