For bloggers

You don't have to know how Beta Blogger works to enjoy its benefits-you can simply install it and start adding content to your site. But if you're interested in learning more about how its inner workings, here's a look "under the hood":
Beta Blogger leverages the Sharepoint technology underlying the OLSB platform. In essence, Sharepoint provides user friendly tools to arrange almost any data in manageable lists and forms that can be sorted, filtered and connected. In this case, the data are your blog entries which after being "collected" in a form are then published to "lists" on web pages. Beta Blogger applies the template to ensure it all works.
From a user experience point of view, it's just like a regular blog. The blogger enters posts and the nav links into a form, and the application automatically publishes the post and updates the indexes on the web pages. The major difference with say, Blogger, is OLSB can't dynamically create pages on demand. That's why Beta Blogger includes all the predefined pages needed.

Every function of the application is accessible from a convenient dashboard in business applications, which includes a quick start guide and useful links:

Behind the scenes, Beta Blogger uses the business applications area as a database for the posts and different "views" of that database format the modules on the web pages. Embedded javascript and css code handle some of the functionality and the appearance of the blog, so you don't have to.

The only non OL component is the commenting feature which is hosted separately by us and automatically added to your posts. Comments moderation is accomplished by using a unique id that you control, allowing you to delete any undesirable comments.

So the only things a user has to do is install the application, connect the published lists on the included pages to the "database" (by clicking ok a few times!) and enter the posts. Unless you want to change the appearance of the blog, you don't have to know ANY code to operate a fully functioning, great looking blog.

For visitors

The integrated navigation ensures your visitors have easy access to any of your posts from anywhere within the blog. They can find, read and comment on your posts on a number of different pages, arranged by default as follows:

• recent posts = last 10 posts
• archive = all posts with summary linked to each post
• 12 monthly pages
• 10 category pages

  Beta Blogger's structure can also be customized if you have special needs. For example, you may have a category with a lot of posts and you want to provide streamlined, FAQ style navigation for that category page-as we did on this site here. Please CONTACT US with your requirements.
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