Quick Blogcast 2.2.4 CSS Editor Changes
For version 2.2.4, we made some changes to the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) editor built into Quick Blogcast. You’ll notice some visible differences the next time you choose to customize the look and feel of your blog. For a detailed explanation of this feature, see Customizing Your Template Using CSS.
*Please note that you must publish your blog after changing the Apply option for your changes to be visible by your blog viewers.
Better Organization Means Easier Maintenance
Previously, when customizing your blog, CSS changes were saved over the original default CSS files. This characteristic made it difficult to distinguish your changes from the original CSS. If you’ve ever made a change that caused your blog to display incorrectly, you know how time-consuming it can be to find and fix offending styles. With the new design, all of your changes are visible in the right pane of the Style Sheet tab so that you can easily see exactly what you’ve changed. The left pane displays the original default style sheets. All color-related styles are viewable by selecting “Color Css” in the drop-down list, while theme-related styles are available under the “Theme Css” selection in the drop-down list. To modify any of the default styles, you can select and drag from the left pane to the right (or copy and paste them).Automatic Backup
Have you ever accidentally deleted or changed styles that caused your blog to display incorrectly and were forced to revert back to the default CSS, thus losing all of the customizations that made your blog unique? Wouldn’t it have been nice if you could have reverted to your last published blog instead of going completely back to ground zero? Well, now you can. Each time you publish changes to your blog’s appearance, your last-published customizations are automatically saved for you and are viewable by selecting “Old Customized Css” in the drop-down list above the left pane on the Style Sheet tab. If you ever want to revert a portion or all of your blog to the way it used to look, simply select the “Old Customized Css” option in the drop-down list and move any of your old styles over to the right pane and re-publish your blog.Now You See It, Now You Don’t
We’ve also added an Apply checkbox on the Style Sheet tab, which allows you to turn on or off all customizations you make to your blog without losing your changes. For example, you might not have time to finish a blog face lift you’ve started, but you really don’t want to lose all the changes you made. No problem, just uncheck the Apply checkbox and publish your changes. All of your customizations are saved, but they are not visible to the blogosphere until you decide you’re ready to go live. At that time, simply check the Apply checkbox and re-publish* for instant gratification. When the Apply option is un-checked, the preview window displays your blog without customizations. If you want to preview your blog with or without customization, simply change the Apply option and the preview window is updated.*Please note that you must publish your blog after changing the Apply option for your changes to be visible by your blog viewers.
Thanks for this, have been able to make several changes to my pre-existing template. However, I'm stuck at trying to change the body background color from the dingy blue to a pure white color.
A suggestion for your future template designers, please comment your CSS a bit more. The use of random (or at least inconsistent) element names from template to template is annoying.
But anyway, any suggestions on what element I need to tweak in the PRESENTATION template to make the background go pure FFFFFF would be appreciated!
-Ric
My prior posts, requesting help/advice, are for the most part unnecessary now. Inspired by blunt-force desire, I was able to determine the offensive color and search for each element that used it, copy that element to the custom pane, and change to FFFFFF. This of course turned out to cause other problems, but those were easily cleaned up. There's a bit of hierarchy in definition missing here, but my search and destroy method did finally win out. Thanks again for the modification that allowed me to do this!
-Ric
Ric
I apologize for the delay in responding to you comment regarding the templates. I'm glad it worked out well for you in the end amd have to admit it's one of my favorite additions to the program since we got it started.
Regards
John
QBC Blog
A little off topic, but I wondered if there were any plans for additional (ideally liquid) templates. It would also be really handy if you could insert scripts into the templates itself (in the same way as you might with wordpress). Sometimes trying to put the scripts in the sidebar just doesn't work.
thanks,
Steve...
Hi Steve,
Thank you for your feedback. Our creative team periodically releases new templates. The most recently released template is "Smart Space". Unfortunately this template is not liquid. We will forward your request for liquid templates over to our template team.
Currently, we only support putting scripts into either entries or into a sidebar item. If there is a particular script you are having issue with, please contact our customer support and provide them with the script that is causing issues. I have put our 24/7 technical support number below.
(480) 505-8877 24x7 Technical Support & Sales
You guys need to make it so at the bottom of the blog page there is a "PREVIOUS POSTS" option so people can go back through all the old logs. This is one thing that QUICKBLOG is seriously lacking.
Also, the ability to add more buttons/menu options across the top where the banner is would be a plus.
Also, please consider adding the option for a second sidebar. One sidebar can get too cluttered and it would be nice to have an extra one.
Otherwise, keep doing the great job. I've been a satisfied customer with GODADDY and the QUICKBLOG program for nearly 2 years now.
Props.
PIMPIN TURTLE
Hi Pimpin Turtle,
Thank you for your feedback. At the moment, the only way to see old blog posts is to use the Monthly Archives sidebar item. I will forward your request over to our usability team.
We are in the process of producing templates that will allow for a second sidebar. I will forward your request for button/menu items across the top to our template team. Keep an eye on this product blog for updates.
I am glad to hear you are pleased with Quick Blogcast. We are working to continuously improve our application based on feedback from our customers.
The older entry link is now available!
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