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Blogging with Blog Navigator Professional - Creating a blog account
Published on September 23, 2004 By Adam Najmanowicz In


The third part of the article already available here...

Reading blogs is one thing, and alot of programs allows you to do that with better or worse results. What makes Blog Navigator unique is among other features (like search article monitors, baskets and search blogs) its ability to both read and write blogs.

Let's setup Blog Navigator Professional to use an account on JoeUser.

There's not much to show really... I'm not sure it could actually be easier. Let me add my JoeUser account to Blog navigator as a first sample:

Adding account from main menu

Now I have the regular dialog like adding any other feed or folder type where you enter it's name and various properties. The most insteresing tab that defines my account access info is the "Account" tab.

Blog account preferences dialog

I entered my username and the password and selected JoeUser.com from the "Blog Service" combobox. If you do not have an account on a service you want to use, simply click the "Create your blog own here" link below the combo and Blog Navigator will take you to the blogging service site where you will be able to create one.

Now I press the OK button and... that's it!

Newly added blog

Since I had articles on that account already Blog Navigator retrieved the last 20 posts and now allows me to edit them, delete and add new articles.

Blog Navigator comes with a handful of predefined list of popular blog services you may select from the list where i selecvted JoeUser.com in my sample. Alternatively you can setup your own custom blog service. All you need to know (or ask the admin of your site for) is the URL (address) of the so called "RPC-XML end point". If you do not know what to ask - just point your blog service admin ad this article and he/she will surely know what to give you.

Still most probably it will be your own service setup on your own server - in that case consult the documentation of the web application to obtain the entry point to the XML-RPC API and the API type the application supports.

Let's setup my Joeuser account the harder way...

Setting up account the harder way - selecting custom service

I select the "Custom..." blog service from the combo box, which happens to be the defaulty one... but I digress...

Setting up account the harder way - selecting the API

I've read in the site documentation... well actually I helped designed it, but I digress again ... that the api the web site supports is the JoeUser.com API (which else!) so I select it from the combo box and...

Setting up account the harder way - setting up the endpoint

enter the XML-RPC end point I obtained from my admin - Pat. (actually we've came up with that address while designing the JoeUser.com XML-RPC API, but let's pretend I had to go through the pain of asking Pat for it ).

Well...

Setting up account the harder way - Two accounts?!?!

actually now I'm left with two Blogging accounts pointing to one account in a service - not very practical... but hey! It's possible and Blog Navigator can handle it just fine, so why not.

Actually I can delete the other one - deleting an account does not delete it on server. That's actually different than deleting your posts - Blog Navigator will also delete them on server. It will however inform you and make sure you are aware of the consequences and that this is what you really want to do.

In the next part I'll show you how to write an article to our newly added account.

The fifth part of the article already available here...


Comments (Page 2)
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on Nov 01, 2004
We've resolved the case on email. It was caused by a BlogNavigator's bug and has been fixed.
on Nov 01, 2004
I'm really enjoying Blog Navigator. I've got all kinds of feeds running into it now and I love being able to get it all in one place. I use it almost exclusively for blogging and news checking at home. Thanks!
on Jul 06, 2005
I am totally new to RSS feeds. I downloaded Blog Navigator because I absolutely want to do all the things it says I can do now -- to be able to organize my online reading and track my progress in some way.

I was a bit anxious to enter in a comment till I read your comments to Chip... - - As a new user, I am completely confused with this tool. Yes, I want to do things, but the feature tours aren't helping me 'DO' things. So my feedback is as follows: Articles on how to do a,b,c would be of great help. Basic definitions on technical terms will help also.

Yes, I will go around digging and learning - but were these articles created, my getting up to speed time would be real short and then I'd be able to comment more on using the software than feeling oppressed by the huge learning curve.

Case in point: As soon as I downloaded it, and saw all the information being pulled in, I thought - how much space is this using up on my system? And that's got me too anxious to do anything else.

lost and anxious,
Priya
on Jul 06, 2005
I'll try to put together a glosary of terms useful when gerring into RSS in a while.

As to the space, I have over 400 feeds active in my Blog Navigoator and it's data is taking about 20 MB on disk, that's not too bad, is it? Blog navigator as a program itself takes less than 3MB.

Blog Navigator has been designed to be easy on memory from the ground up.
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