One other question was how do you make the author shown? Although right now I may not ever have other contributors to my site I would like to have my name show up as the author...

Oh yeah, and is there a way to make ALL links outside the website open in a new window? I post articles and the title is a link is to the article...

You can find an answer to your last question here:
http://forums.b2evolution.net/viewtopic.php?t=2254

Look in the _linkblog.php file in /skins/yourskinname/. You can customize that file (and even replace it with a copy of /skins/_linkblog.php for further customization).

-- I would like to use the linkblog in the sidebar, but removing the passage I write about the link. (similar to this: http://thesouthernbeat.com/ I know this site uses wordpress, just wondering if it's possible to render something similar)

--I would like to sort my links on the linkblog site by category then alphabatize within the category instead of listing links by date.

Download my London skin from the skins site, and either copy the _linkblog.php or look at it's code. I think it does exactly what you want.

Ok so far I have pretty much done what I wanted to do, I have an unwanted space between the category title and category contents.

Looks like this:

general

Dennis Bakke: Joy at Work
How Stuff Works
Nutrition Data
webMD

news

MSNBC.com

bloggers

Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions

*EDIT* Dang it, I just realized when I pasted that it looked how I want it to look. Now I have it how it looks...

Add this to your stylesheet (custom.css):

h6 {
margin-bottom:0;
}

YOU DA MAN!!!! HAHAHAHA

Damn this shit is starting to make sense!

I never got into this type of coding, 2-3 years ago I could do nearly anything you wanted in HTML. Now that php, css, xhtml and all this other jargon is hitting it big (and somewhat easy) I'm behind. Don't know if I want to spend the time to really learn it though :/

I put off learning css for a long time, too. Turns out that it's not really that hard. Search google for a guide and read through it, then install the [url=https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=60]Firefox Web Developer Extension[/url], which lets you edit css on the fly and see the results instantly. That's what I used to try that code I gave you. The dev toolbar does lots of other tricks, too. Give it a try.

These things might help you somewhat:

http://isaacschlueter.com/blog/a_nice_linkblog
http://isaacschlueter.com/blog/new_window_links
http://isaacschlueter.com/blog/new_window_links_2
http://isaacschlueter.com/category/css
http://isaacschlueter.com/category/design

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isaac please check your blog for a feedback question, just wondering where I am suppose to put that code so it works...

Come up with another question...

Is it possible to create a mouse over text box using the blogs web-based entry writer? I hope that makes sense!

When posting entries to the linkblog, I would like to have text giving a description of the link since I do not have access directly to the linkblog.

Sorry, I have no idea what you mean. Can you link to a site that already does this?

I think thisexit would like a linkblog with just links, but when you mouse over a link it shows some text (the body of the post). I guess you could do it like this:

<a href="<?php (Link to URL code goes here) ?>" title="<?php (Post body code goes here) ?>"><?php (Post title code goes here) ?></a>

Or it might be better to do it with CSS. Set up the linkblog like normal, and wrap the post text in a div with a class that you hide via CSS until it get's moused over.

That is exactly what I'm looking for, just not sure where to put it.

I tried but failed :/

I can help you, but let me ask you this first. How long do you want these descriptions to be able to go? And do you want them to be able to include formatting or images? If so then we should do this with CSS.

Oh no no, I'm just talking about what you said...

All I have in the post body is a brief description...

Nothing more.

Can you help me get rid of the space between my linkblog categories listed in my sidebar? Trying to conserve some room. http://thisexit.us/blog/index.php

Add this to your stylesheet (custom.css)

.bSideItem h6 {
	margin:0;
}

Even if you are just doing a simple bit of text, I think CSS would be the best way to do it. Here's a guide on CSS popups. Take a look. When I get time in the next couple of days I'll help you hammer out the code. In the meantime, see what damage you can do:

http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/css/edge/popups/demo.html