Look and Feel

The look of the weblog is controlled by the default.php file in the defaultTemplate folder. The images used in the template are stored in the defaultTemplate/images folder.

<img src="../images/template.jpg">

You can open the default.php file using any web page design application, e.g, GoLive, as shown below (it is an ordinary html file) :

<img src="../images/golive.jpg">

If you're using a visual web page design application like GoLive, you only need to drag the two items highlighted in red into any web page to make it into a weblog.

The first item is a Base Href tag that sets this web page as the base for all relative references, e.g., to the images used on the page.

The second item just runs the PHP program called "journal.php" such that all its output will appear in that column. 

In the future we could add another tag, say "calendar.php" so that a calendar will appear where we place that tag.

By designing the system in this way, the programming logic is completely encapsulated away from the design of the web page. The web page designer can work without being distracted by programming issues.

This is the contribution I have made. 