Blog general informations

When someone arrive on the index of a blog, the lastest messages will be displayed.

When a list of message is shown on the first page, an user can:

• Read the message by clicking on the title of a message or on the "permanent link" under the message. The permanent link contains the good URL to access to this message without any other restriction. If an abstract for this article has been defined (because the article is long) a link "read more..." will appears under the abstract and will allow to read the entire message.
• Read the comments of a message by clicking on the "comments" link under the message.
• See the older or newer messages by using the navigation commands in the middle top of the blog.

Adding comments

In order to add a comment for a message, click on the "comments" of the message on witch you want to react. There will have a form under the previous comments of the message witch will allow you write your comment. Depending on the configuration of the blog, this comment may be reviewed before being displayed to everyone.

The menu

The menu zone can contains up to five elements:

1. Blog description

   This zone contain a short description of the blog content and a link to a complete description page.
   

2. Categories list

   This zone contains a list of the differents categories of messages on this blog. By clicking on a category name it will allow you to display the latest messages of this category and to navigate in the older messages of this category.
   Notice that some messages can belong to no category.
   

3. Lastest messages

   This zone contains links to the lastest messages post in this blog.
   

4. Search field

   This zone allow you to make a search in order to find a message witch contain a given string in their title, abstract or content.
   As long as the search field contains the search query, it will filter displayed messages.
   The "reset search" link allow you to disable the search filter.
   

5. Calendar

   A calendar of a month (by default the current month). It will allow you to see the messages added for a given:
   • day by clicking on a day number
   • week by clicking to the week number in the first column
   • month by clicking on the header of the table
   
   You can retrieve witch restriction on post date are applied to displayed messages by looking witch boxes are in a different color.
   
   You can naviguate between months by using and button if they appears around month name. (depending of if there is messages on other months or not.).
   As for months, you can naviguate between years by using and button if they appears (depending of if there is messages on other years or not.).

RSS feed

There is a RSS feed for the blog. You can get the feed's URL by clicking on the rss icon under the menu.

The RSS feed won't be accessible in RSS readers if the blog is not public.

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Toolbar

Contextual help link.

Login link. This icon is present if your not already logged. Click this link to log in the system by authentificating yourself.

Logout link. Click on this link to log out of the system.

Link to a print-freindly version of the current page.

send a email to node administrator(s).

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