Help with editing the "About" page

[mydogonline]

Hallo,

I’ve just setup Pixelpost. Now I’m having difficulties figuring out how I can update the information on the “About” page of my site. I have a Word document ready to upload, but I have no idea where to put it. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.:)

Thanks in advance.
K. Aldrich

[mydogonline]

Hallo,

I’ve just setup Pixelpost. Now I’m having difficulties figuring out how I can update the information on the “About” page of my site. I have a Word document ready to upload, but I have no idea where to put it. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.:)

Thanks in advance.
K. Aldrich

[Connie]

there is a template in the folder which contains the templates of your choice.
This template is exactly what you should edit.

Edit, not word process!

why you do not read the wiki or the docs which come with Pixelpost? ;=(

http://wiki.pixelpost.org/index.php?title=Where_to_modify_%22About%22_inform ation%3F

and keep in mind, that you should not paste your WORD document into the template, a template needs clear ASCII with some tags, but no WORD docs ;=)

[mydogonline]

Thanks very much for your answer. I managed to edit the about page as per your instructions, but now I have another perplexing problem. There is probably a wiki article addressing it, but I have no idea how to describe what is going wrong to the search engine.

The problem is this: after editing the about page, two things happen:

1. The name of my site is lost in the bookmark.
2. When I click to go to the “browse” page, (from the "about" page), an error occurs. (“The requested URL /<SITE_BROWSELINK> was not found on this server.”)


At first, I thought it was something I had done by accident – perhaps deleting something inadvertently. Therefore, I uploaded a fresh “about” template and started again. I discovered that the above errors occurred as soon as I began typing in new text. However, I should say that if I begin at the “image” page, the links to the “browse” and “about” page work perfectly. Therefore, I must have introduced some corruption into the “about” page.

Any ideas?

Kent

[Dennis]

HTML is kinda particular about the location of the text. Please post your modified about template so we can look at it.

[austriaka]

Therefore, I must have introduced some corruption into the “about” page.
Hello Kent,
what did you use for editing the about template?
If you use a webeditor or word, the pixelpost tags may get corrupted.

The error (“The requested URL /<SITE_BROWSELINK> was not found on this server.”) points out, that <SITE_BROWSELINK> was not replaced by the real path URL, so the typing of <SITE_BROWSELINK> must have been changed, probably to &lt;SITE_BROWSELINK&gt;

Check the source code of about page and the about_template.html file

KArin

[mydogonline]

HTML is kinda particular about the location of the text. Please post your modified about template so we can look at it.

As you can see, you are dealing with an html novice. To edit the “about” template, I simply went to the file manager, clicked on the about_template file, and then opened it in the html editor provided by my host, Eleven2. I deleted the existing Pixelpost text, typed in my own text, saved it, and then the problems began. If it helps, you can see my troubled site at http://www.caleidochrome.com

Thanks in advance,
Kent
:confused:

[Dkozikowski]

Looking at you about template source your browse link shows,
%3CSITE_BROWSELINK%3E.

This is absolutly incorrect.

Replace %3CSITE_BROWSELINK%3E with <SITE_BROWSELINK>

also, replace &lt;SITE_TITLE&gt; with <SITE_TITLE>

[mydogonline]

Hallo dwilkinsjr...

Brilliant!

That seemed to do the trick - everything is back to normal!

While I'm at it, can I ask you one more question?

I would like to insert a Favicon.ico so an icon will appear on the bookmark.
I’ve downloaded an icon editor, and produced a test icon, but the problem is that I have no idea where to put the icon file once I’ve uploaded it. Do you have any suggestions?

Best regards,
Kent

[Dkozikowski]

Sure. Its easy.

Upload your favicon.ico file anywhere you wish on your website

edit the template files you wish to add the favicon to and add this in between the <head></head> tags somewhere


<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" />


if your favicon.ico file is not in your root directory, change
herf="path/to/favicon.ico" to the path of your favicon.ico file