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1 Aug 16, 2006 20:42    

Is there a way of doing this? I'd like the blog to be actually part of my website, but can't figure out how to do this. In other words, I'd like my own web page title to come up at the top of all my blogs.

Am I explaining this right? :-/ If anyone's done this, could they explain how they did it? Thanks very much.

2 Aug 16, 2006 21:16

need a little bit more info, but if u check my blog you'll see that you will have your own title for each of you blogs dispalyed at the top of the page.

In the BackOffice, under the section in Blogs where it says

Full Name [text box thingy] Will be displayed on top of the blog.

So if i understood your question properly, then simple answer yes.

3 Aug 16, 2006 21:19

how this is done depends on how your site is set up, and what you want to accomplish specifically, in other words, there is no cut and paste method, these is no easy explanation.

as for someone else explaining it.. please search the forum.. this topic has been regurgitated extensively throughout quite a few threads.

Here for instance, is one such thread:

http://forums.b2evolution.net/viewtopic.php?t=8344&highlight=embed

I also reccomend taking a look at this:

http://manual.b2evolution.net/Main_Page

4 Aug 17, 2006 12:48

Thanks for the replies. Just to state that I did search the site and found that first topic you've posted a link to Whoo, but I couldn't understand it at all. Thanks for the second link though. I hadn't seen that and I'm going to look through it now.

Dreamsborn, interesting site. ;) I'll try to clarify what I'm trying to do. I have a website already, and I'd like to take the headers and navigation bars from my site and place them on my blogs, so the blogs actually become part of the site. At the moment they're two completely different things as you'll see from these links (Are links allowed here?) :-/

www.orelse.eu is the main site
www.orelse.eu/b2volution is one of the blogs that I've done, but there's no way of linking back to the main site, which I need.

I'm off to read through Whoo's link in the meantime. Thanks again.

5 Aug 17, 2006 13:52

its unfortunate, but there really is no "pat" way to integrate a blog into an existing site -- some ppl use iframes, some people edit the skins to reflect what they have elsewhere. While editing skins can be challenging, I think it tends to give the best results.

6 Aug 17, 2006 16:33

Learner,

You CAN configure b2evo to be "part of your site". In fact, it can be so integrated with your site that a visitor doesn't really know when the blog begins and when it ends.

However, it will take a tad of work to do it.

I'd start by:

1) putting a link to the blog in your existing HTML page menu
2) making the menu and header a PHP include and changing the HTML page so that the menu and header are input as an Include
3) modify your htacess file so that HTML files are parsed for PHP code
4) add the menu and header to your blog custom skin _main.php file
5) begin playing with the code/CSS in the _main.php file so that it more closely matches with the main site.

You will need to learn about PHP includes, htaccess ... but it's not hard and just takes time.

Here's a tutorial on [url=http://www.tizag.com/phpT/include.php]PHP Includes[/url] and why they're useful.

Here's an explanation on how to [url=http://www.desilva.biz/php/phpinhtml.html]put PHP code in an HTML page[/url].

These are just the bare basics of what you need to do and they'll be a lot of technical issues that come up, as you work with the _main.php file.

That's what this forum is for!! So just dive in and start.

You'll find that you get good help when your questions are very specific. Include links, let us know what version of b2evo you're using and paste specific code. The more specific, the better.

Hope this helps. :D


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