Posted in Techie Stuff

On Sunday, March 19th HomeschoolBlogger is going to be upgrading some of our blogging software. You won't be able to login or post on your blog while the actual upgrade is happening. Your profile and your old entries should be just fine, BUT there may be an affect on your uploaded images. If you don't already have those images stored elsewhere on your computer, you can easily save them by right clicking on each image and then using the Save As.. or Save Image As.. feature to save them to your computer.  This process will not affect your templates, unless you are using images on your template that have been stored in your blog space.

 

Images that you placed on your blog using a URL from another photo hosting site should be just fine. 

 

Just take some time to check what photos you have uploaded to your HSB blog.  You can log in and then click on thet File Upload button to see the images you have saved there.  Those are the ones that you want to make sure to save elsewhere.

 

I always just use Photobucket.com to save my pictures that I want to use on my blog.  They resize them so that makes it a little easier for me anyway.   Best of all, it is FREE!!  HSB is going to place restrictions on how many photos you can upload and store here so that the system will perform even better, so you'll want to get acquainted with one of those photo hosting sites anyway.

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CUSTOMIZED TEMPLATES...

If you have a customized template, be sure to make a copy of your template code and save it.  There is a chance that the customized template could be affected.

In order to save your template follow these simple steps:

• Open your page in your web browser.  
• Click File>Save Page As...
• Save the page in your My Documents folder.  This will save all of your images for your template. 

Now, you need to save your Template code.

• Login your account.
• Click Edit Template. 
• Click in the text area box.
• Press Ctrl + A to select all the text.
• Open your word processing progrem, i.e. Word, Word Pad, Notepad, Word Perfect, etc.
• Create a new document in your WP program. 
• Press Ctrl + V to paste all the text.
• Be sure to save the document.  I usually name mine with today's date.  It is wise to backup your template before making any changes... that way you have a copy in case you mess it up. 

 

When it's all said and done, HSB is going to be better than ever.  Just take some time to save those photos and backup your template.

Amy Beth