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If you work with a small blogging network then using shared boxes on your blogs can literally save you hours of hard work maintaining and updating your blogs.
At it's simplest, a shared box is a small area on a web page which displays content held in a seperate file on the server. Because the content itself remains on an independent file, it can be called from as many different web pages as you like and displayed simultaneously on all of them.

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Samsarin PHP Widget

[A simple plugin for Wordpress to allow PHP code to be run in text widgets.]

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This is the second in a series of workshops designed to walk newcomers to the Thumblogger platform through building their first blog. In part one we created our blog, assigned a template and theme, and finished off by introducing the wizards and using them to change the name of our blog. In this workshop I will return to the wizards to add a header image below the top bar, and alter some of the more basic options available to users.

If you have read our introduction to the Thumblogger blogging platform then you will be familiar with the three basic components of the system. The posts, the content boxes, and the templates. My aim here is not to re-cover that ground but to walk you through the process I follow in setting up a new blog.

Working in an effective way is an important skill in adult blogging where much of the work involved is repetitive. The key to working efficiently in this way is to have a well thought out, organised routine for each main task. By working through a list nothing gets forgotten and everything gets completed in the correct order. You can easily achieve this in less than two hours if you follow my little checklist.