I gotta admit, despite being a teenager, I know nothing about web design, so does anyone here know how to use them in relation to a blog ?

I gotta admit, despite being a teenager, I know nothing about web design, so does anyone here know how to use them in relation to a blog ?


From WIKI


A blog (a portmanteau of web log) is a website where entries are commonly displayed in reverse chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.

Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on art (artlog), photographs (photoblog), sketchblog, videos (vlog), music (MP3 blog), audio (podcasting) are part of a wider network of social media. Micro-blogging is another type of blogging which consists of blogs with very short posts.

As of December 2007, blog search engine Technorati was tracking more than 112 million blogs.[1]

Apparently you can get news feeds displayed through Really simple Script. or something like that.

Apparently you can get news feeds displayed through Really simple Script. or something like that.

You can add links to the news feeds.

RSS = Really Simple Syndication.

For the most part RSS is a standard, yet an adaption of XML. What is usually required to create RSS is a 'Parser' which can usually be written in PHP/Perl. It is possible to parse RSS or XML via Javascript however since Javascript can't save data to servers alone it's only one way and can be problematic if a user has turned off Javascript in their Browser.

Without using a Parser the RSS feed is a similar system to HTML tags, however they have been structured to an Industrial Standard. The tags themselves fit a particular patterning that needs to be defined or it it's not fully compliant. (XML allows freeforming of tags for multiple uses and therefore doesn't necessary have any more standards than how tags are applied.)

CSS = Cascading Style Sheets

CSS is again another standard and is actually something that can be used with normal HTML to generate many variants of effects in web design. Again it's an industrial standard and is implemented by the Browser. Basically CSS can do pretty much everything normal HTML can do, it's just it's markup is slightly different.

CSS doesn't have to be embedded into the elements (STYLE element of tags), it can be embedded into the page in a CSS Style tag or even written to it's own file and linked for the browser to integrate it.

CSS has grown in use over the years, not replacing but complimenting standard HTML.

CSS when used with say blogs or places like 'Myspace' allow for changes to the overall HTML to be made without the base HTML having to be rewritten. Obviously various efforts will have been made to deal with any potential security issues that CSS might hold and is in fact safer than allowing plain HTML that could add Hyperlinks or Objects that could have illicit intent.

I guess what you should mention is, Are you intending to use a blog? which blog software do you intend to use? which one do you need help with? etc.

Hum,
indeed.

i am currently toying with the idea of using my hAL virtual assistant (with an alice brain) and combining it with a stand alone Rss reader or web browser, to make a blogbot; so that i can get it to read and repost the information into my blog, er, while i have a life.

blogbot - A chatbot for blogs

I am currently using blogspot, and would like to syndicate several other blogs etc, possibly even a newsfeed.