I changed around my blog layout. What happened to my dashboard?
Q: I changed my layout around. What happened to my dashboard?
A: First, let me reassure you that the administration dashboard link to your blog is always accessible by going directly to http://www.blogware.com/admin. You may want to bookmark this in your web browser so you'll always have it available when you need to post to your blog.
To answer your question: “What happened to my dashboard?”
The link you've been using to access the administration site is part of
a component called “Help for Publishers.” When you were making changes
to the look and feel of your weblog, you may have moved the component
from its “active” state in the original layout either by changing the
layout of your blog from the Three Column layout to a Two Column
layout, or by dragging the component to the “inactive column.”
To see how you've customized the look and feel of your blog, please do the following:
1. Login to your weblog by going to: http://www.blogware.com/admin.
2. Click Look&Feel.
3. Click Layout.
4. Under Layout, you'll see whether your layout is the original “Three Column” (or something else).
5. If it's not in the original “Three Column” layout, simply change the
layout to “Three Columns” by clicking on the icon that corresponds to
it.
6. If you like your current layout, simply locate the “Help for Publishers” component and drag it to a column in your layout.
7. Remember that whenever you make a change to the layout of your blog to click Save.
Here's a screen shot of the Look&Feel>Layout tab:
Notice that the right-most column labeled “inactive” contains
components that you can drag into your layout. You can also customize
the layout of your existing components by dragging them as well.
