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Frequently Asked Questions

Articles Pane

The Articles pane is where you manage your blog entries. From here, you can add or delete articles, move them to change the publishing order, and edit the content of the articles.

Adding A New Article Manually

  1. Click on the button
  2. Double-click on the article title or date published in the table to edit the title or the date
  3. Use the editor view in the bottom-half of the Articles pane to write your article

Adding A New Article With Drag and Drop

  1. Switch to the source application (like Safari or Mail)
  2. Highlight the text you want to publish as an article
  3. Drag the highlighted text into the Articles table
  4. A new article is created with the dragged text shown in the content editor

Editing An Article

  1. Select the article you want to edit in the table
  2. To edit the title or publish date, double click the text to change in the table
  3. To edit the article content, use the editor view in the bottom half of the Articles pane

Article Editing Toolbar


Use the menu bar to format text or insert links and images into your blog. Most of the buttons behave differently if you have text selected; please read on for details.


Click one of these buttons to make the selected text Bold, Italicized or Underlined. The button inserts the html tags (like <b> and </b>) on either side of the selected text. If you delete one of the tags, be sure to delete the other matching tag; if not, your entire page may not display properly.


Click this button to indent the text; normally used if you quote another author or web page.


Click this button to insert a Photo Browser or a plain text link to an iPhoto album that you already published to your .Mac account using iPhoto.


Click this button to insert an individual image in your blog article; these images must already be on your .Mac account, whether you saved them to your iDisk or published them using iPhoto. Your iDisk should be mounted to speed up navigation.


Click this button to insert a generic link to an image. Edit the URL (web address) to point to an image on another web page and edit the title to show a description when users place their mouse over the image.


Click this button to insert a generic link to another web page. Edit the URL to point to another web address. If you had text selected before clicking this button, your text is now the link readers will click to go to the page.

Deleting An Article

  1. Select the article you want to delete in the table
  2. Click the button
  3. To undo, select Undo from the Edit menu or press Command-Z

Archive Selected Articles...

If you post articles to your blog regularly, it can fill up quickly and your readers will have to scroll through a long list of articles. Blog.Mac will automatically prepare your blog for a new month of postings in a single click. This function will save the current blog file to a new name of your choosing (like "babyblog_aug05"), publish the archive to your .Mac web site, clear the current blog, and add a link to the published archive.