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Setting up your eLaunceston Journal
Your eLaunceston journal is created and maintained in your eLaunceston WebSpace. You will need to set up your eLaunceston WebSpace before you can access your journal. Once this has been set up, you can add new entries to your journal easily using any text editor, such as Notepad (PC) or TextEdit (Mac).

Adding your first journal entry

  1. Connect to your eLaunceston WebSpace. Locate the "journal" folder within your WebSpace folder.

  2. Open a text editor (Notepad, TextEdit) and type your journal entry. The first line of your entry will appear bold in your journal, as shown below:



  3. Save the file (with any name you choose) in the "journal" folder within your WebSpace folder.

    (Alternatively, you can save the file to another location, and drag it into the "journal" folder.) Be sure the file has the ".txt" extension on the filename.

  4. Check your entry by visiting your journal page: http://www.elaunceston.com/cgi-bin/user.cgi/YOUR USER NAME/journal

  5. Note: New journal entries are added to the top of your journal. If you edit an older entry, it will appear at the top of your journal.

Customising your eLaunceston Journal
Your eLaunceston journal is fully customisable in terms of look and feel. By default, all eLaunceston journals use a default template provided by the system, but this layout can be overridden by creating your own template and placing it within your eLaunceston WebSpace.

Creating a custom template

  1. Connect to your eLaunceston WebSpace. Locate the "journal" folder within your WebSpace folder.

  2. Each journal template has three basic HTML templates that determine the layout. These are as follows:



    • head.html: Determines how the top-most elements of the page will appear. If you wanted to change the title of your journal from "eLaunceston Journal" to "My Journal" you would just make the appropriate edits to the head.html file in a text editor. You can also edit the stylesheet, also located in head.html.
      Note: You can edit any part of the file you wish. There is a special field, called "$blog_title" which is simply the current title of the journal. You can change this to anything you like.

    • story.html: Determines how each of the items you've added to your journal will appear. There are a few special fields that need to remain in order for your journal item to display correctly. These are:

      - $title (The title of any given journal entry)
      - $body (The body of the entry)
      - $url (The URL of the entry)
      - $path (Your eLaunceston journal directory name)

      These fields should be left intact to allow your journal to display correctly.

    • foot.html: Determines what will appear at the bottom of the page, after your journal entries.

  3. Save or copy the files to the "journal" folder within your WebSpace folder.

  4. Check your entry by visiting your journal page: http://www.elaunceston.com/cgi-bin/user.cgi/YOUR USER NAME/journal

  5. Note: If you want to go back to the original eLaunceston template, simply delete "head.html", "story.html" and "foot.html" from your "journal" directory.
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