The reason you give the default entries Author rights is to allow them the ability to comment. If you are not planning on allowing commenting, you can give both default entries Readers access.
The ACL can be locked down however you wish for defaults. If you want the site to be secure so only a project team can see it, simply give -Default- and Anonymous no access, and give the Project Team the author rights I outlined above. For the person(s) maintaining the blog, there are several roles that can be given.
Admin -- This role allows access to all of the administration functionality and configuration settings.
webadmin -- This role allows you to access the administration section of the blog from the web.
webcompose -- This allows a user to make posts via a web browser instead of the Notes client.
Once you have the ACL squared away, you can start using your blog install immediately. If you want to tweak, there are a TON of options available to you.
What can you do?
On the left side of your blog, you have the following menu choices. They pertain to the following info:
Content -- This is the area for your blog posts and podcasts.
Discussion -- This area revolves around the comments made on your blog posts and the discussion that ensues.
Resources -- This area houses images, style sheets, javascript libraries, attachments and static web pages.
HTML Templates -- Here you will find all of the HTML templates used for the various page types in your blog.
Configuration -- This is where all of the back-end configuration and tweaking takes place. You can set up categories, tags, links, user profiles, and your main configuration document.
Configuration Document
Right now, I want to give you a brief explanation of some of the configuration document settings. These settings affect how your blog acts, and are pretty important. You will want to play around with these to see what best fits the style and purpose your blog serves. The nice thing is, you can change these at any time, so if you don't like how a setting behaves, change it back.
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When you open the configuration document you will see two rows of tabs. We're going to concentrate on what's on the Site Settings tab. Click the Site Settings tab, then click General. This section deals with the basics you used in your opening wizard. It also fleshes it out a bit.
Full URL of Site -- This is the full path to the blog database on your server including folder paths and an ending slash.
Use full URL to override automatic Base HREF -- If you say yes to this, your IBM Blog will always use the Full URL of the site when creating dynamic links within pages of the site. If you say No, the system will attempt to make dynamic links based on the domain URL of the site.
Domain URL of Site -- This is the standard website address of your site. For example http://www.mysite.com
Site Title -- The name of your site
Site Description -- A description tag line for your site
Site Owner -- The person running the site
Site Copyright -- Who owns the copyright on the blog postings
Meta Data Author -- This is the author name that will be included in the HTML meta data for the page. This is used by search engines when indexing your content.
Meta Data Description -- This is a description of your site that will be included in the HTML meta data for the page.
Keywords -- This is a list of keywords that describe your content that will be included in the HTML meta data data for the page.
Advanced Tab
Primary Server - This is the server that your blog resides on and will run the agents on. You can choose the server it's currently hosted on by clicking the Set to Current Server button.
Notification Email Address - This is the list of addresses that you will want to be notified of things like comments being posted to your blog. You can enter multiple addresses by doing so one per line.
Alternative Port - If you are serving up this blog on an http port other than 80, you can enter than information here.
Use UNID to reference attachments - Leave this set to no.
Number of items to show - This determines how many posts show on the front page of your blog before archiving. 10 is a common number, but you may want to go larger or smaller depending on the length of your posts.
Default Content Order - You can order your posts in Date/Time (the default) alphabetical or numerical. Traditional blogs do this in Date/Time, but you have the option to change this if your needs dictate.
Include Documents for Sub-Categories - leave this set to no.
Include Sub-Categories/Folders - leave this set to yes.
Include Documents with Sub-Category/Folder - leave this set to no.
Group Homepage content by Day - Check this box if you want to group all entries made on a day under a header for the date in question. Otherwise, each blog post appears independently of each other.
No Items/Documents/Text/HTML - There may be a time when a view in your database has no data in it. If that's the case, it will display whatever error message you type here. By default it should say No Documents Found.
Stylesheet Screen/Global - This is where you choose your stylesheet for viewing your site in a browser. It pulls the list from available stylesheets in your database. For more choices to show up here, you need to create additional stylesheets in the Resources area of the database.
Stylesheet/Print - This is an additional stylesheet you can specify for when your website is printed.
Javascript - If you want a javascript .js file loaded with every page, you can specify it here.
Allow Category Templates for Documents - This tells your blog whether every Category in the blog can have its own template. If you wish for posts to look different based on the Category, you can turn this to yes.
Login Text - This is the text of the link on the homepage that allows a web user to authenticate and log into the website.
Enable Email Processing - This allows a blog to accept and post content that is mailed to it. This is beyond the scope of this article, so for our purposes click No.
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