This is body of jan blog page 101

It was so cold but nice

Instruction how to create such Blog page from scratch

Hi,
from a user:

>No opposition to drupal.  Only no clue where to start.  I am used to
>a tree structure in html.  So assume also here you need to tell me
>where to start?  Drupal blog pages are?????????


You know already 95%. The missing 5% is described below:

For now add independent pages to Drupal as Blog entries. You can link
 one Blog page to another. Just the summary page   will be missing

2) To add new blog page do as follows
*** login to main drupal page as you
http://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/

*** top left box has your name, select 'Create content' (and wait)

*** it will unfold, select 'Blog entry' (and wait)

*** change few not so reasonable defaults of this new blog page
(those are only suggestions)
1) Title : make it short but clear. I typed in
 Jan Blog Example 101
2) Body :  select 'Source' (just below Body *'
and now you can use this 95% of what you know about HTML, type there whole text.
There is trick with including jpg & referencing , see below.
2.1) just below 'Body' is sub-meny 'Input Format', click (and wait)
Select 'Full HTML' - default is 'filtered HTML' and it ignores some of HTML commands
 which always confuses me - I never know what it ignores trying to 'help a user'. 
Disable it.
3) at the bottom , open 'URL path settings' and type in the (empty) frame the
 end section of URL you want this page to be seen for the world. I have typed there:
test-blog-jan
And now you can view this page as:
http://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/test-blog-jan

As you see you add stuff just after 'STAR/' - be careful and plan your tree.
E.g. do not create URL:
http://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/pi0
This will block any user from using 'pi0' name space.
Rather use sth long:
http://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/endcap-jan-tower-only-pi0-ver23

*** Adding & referencing JPG,GIF
1) go to the bottom and unfold 'File attachments', choose file, attach.
I selected my photo: 02-25-08_1030.jpg
2) go up in to 'Body' and reference it as:
< img  src="/STAR/system/files/02-25-08_1030.jpg" >
Note1 : the '/' before STAR is important
Note2 : skip ' ' after '<' from '< img ...'  I added it to trick Drupal
3) you may want to un-check the 'list' button for image you have already displayed with  < img  src=

That would be it
Jan