Starting your blog

BLOG TITLE: This is what you want to call your blog page

SUBTITLE: If you want something under your title

An example of this as it shows on my blog :

Blog Title: The Asylum Heros :
Subtitle: by The Story Teller

Access rights? "There are three different levels of privacy: public, friends only, and private" from the Help/FAQ.

"The privacy settings are available under 'Access rights' in the blog settings" from the Help/FAQ

"Friends Others
Area Access Comment Rate Access Comment Rate" this is what is available under 'access rights', no mention of "public, friends or private". Nor is there any explanation of the Radio buttons on this page - what does marking them mean, what does leaving them unmarked mean?

What I want is completely private except to specific friends I invite. I find I have strange visitors.

And how do I arrange to receive an email notification if there are any answers to this question? Would it be 'subscribe to this topic to receive email notifications'?

Throughout the use of english is gnomic it is so incomplete, and this makes using My Opera daunting.:clown:

Thank you H82typ.

I went to

My Account/
clicked on "edit Blog settings"/
which showed my "default post access" as "Private"

Yet I have been visited by "Veezarethe"

When I visit Veezarethe's page it says "banned user"

How was I visited when I was "Private"?

I have changed the setting from Private to "Friends Only". Will that mean I am private until I invite someone?

When my default post access showed "Private" my "Allow comments" showed "Friends only" ~ did that create some kind of application conflict?

Hello again. If what H82typ says is accurate, then does the FAQ need changing, and what is the function of the "Access Rights" category at the bottom left of the "My Account" page?

They can still visit your blog page - they simply see a blank page if every post is marked as Private. If the blog itself is designated Private, then they can't. Same thing if a post or your blog is Friends Only - non-friends will only see a blank page or get redirected to your About page.

Does anyone know if it's possible to add external html code to the sidebar?

I don't think so, the sidebars aren't really customizable except via CSS.
What did you have in mind?

A couple of things... I wanted to add blogshares on my blog. I use it on another blog I have and I wanted to use it here. Plus, I'm not too crazy about the site statistics and wanted to use another service like sitemeter or something.

Well, you can include HTML in your blog posts subject to certain limitations :

Some HTML is allowed, however special tags or attributes such as script, applet, onload, onunload, and all other on* attributes, style, form and all forms related tags, frame or frameset, body,meta, html, head, title are not supported.

So you can embed an invisible counter in your posts, if you wish, or add a link to 'Make this blog a Technorati fave' and so on. I don't know much about BlogShares.

Who could tell me how to move the "latest comments" and the "blog posts" in my profile page?
Also how could I add in this page the buttons "visit my blog" and "view my photos"?
Thanks.

How do I make my own custom style sheets?
And add it to my blog?

How to use the membership option when making a new blog,

I have sent invations, but cant get it to work