Show And Tell : Domino and Favicons

Favicons, the little image that appears
beside the url in your browsers addressbar or beside the entry you have
in your bookmarks list. By default Lotus Domino provides it’s own standard
favicon but did you know you can replace it without actually replacing
the file.

Using a special line in the head section
of your HTML page you can redirect the browser to a different favicon.ico
file.  This special line looks like this

<link rel="shortcut icon"
href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />

All you need to do then is set the path
to the favicon.ico file and next time the page loads the web broswer will
look for the file you have specified instead of the default one.

What is a favicon.ico file.  Well
it’s nothing more then a 16 x 16 BMP file that has had it’s file extention
renames to .ICO.

And in the new BlogSphere V3 this special
instruction will automatcially be added to the html if it detects that
a ‘Quick Image’ with the name Favicon.Ico has been created. No need to
go into the design and adjust anything. Just create the Quick Image document
and refresh your page.

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Another Alpha Build Of BlogSphere V3 Available

The BlogSphere Alpha Download page has
been updated with a new build.  There is also a list of all the changes
since the last build.

BlogSphere V3 is starting to come together
now, most of the major items have been completed so it’s just a case of
checking for any bugs and then going through the code to set up translation
fields in the translation document for all test that is output the the
users web browser.

The first beta version should be coming
very very soon and will be available on OpenNTF.

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BlogSphere V3 Alpha

BlogSphere V3 will be released on OpenNTF
when it’s finished but till then you can download the latest build from
the downloads page on the right side.

This is still an alpha version of the
template and I wouldn’t recommend applying it to your live blog just yet,
you should apply it to a backup of your live site and test it. If your
brave enough to run it live after you have tested it then please let me
know how it goes. if you have any problems or find any bugs with what is
currently working then leave a comment here and I’ll make sure it gets
fixed for the next build.

If you do test an upgrade don’t forget
to copy in the ‘Page Layout’ and ‘Site Skins’ documents from the template
into your database otherwise you’ll just see a blank page on your site.

I’ll be placing builds up on the same
download page as often as I can so keep checking back for updated versions.

Have Fun.

Update : Sorry, I forgot to update the
layout template so the download wasn’t visible. It’s there now.

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Lotusphere – Last Day For Early Bird Prices

Have you registered yet?

After today the price goes up from US$1695
to US$1895 and then on December 9th it goes up again to US$2095.  You
should still have a few hours left to get your registration in for the
early bird price…

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