Try Cmd-F to search for the first word in your blog post, and then select the text and all its HTML until you get to the end of the blog post. So you squint your eyes and go scrubbing through the template, looking for the “content” and replacing it with a template placeholder. Try Cmd-F to search for “href” and “url(” in your template.īy now you should have a pretty good looking preview! The only problem is, it shows you the content of your reference post! You need to insert placeholders where all the “interesting things” are. You’ll probably know that you need to find some more links to change because something is missing or just doesn’t look right in the preview. You’ll need to change it to include your host name: Href=”blog/wp-content/themes/rsbubbles/style.css” For instance, if your HTML links to CSS style sheet like this:
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This won’t be necessary for all blogs, but if your HTML has relative links in it, you’ll need to replace those links with full links. You should immediately see the preview window become a lot more like your blog looks on the web! Delete the default template text to make room for your custom template.Ĭopy the HTML source from the web browser’s “View Source” window and paste it right into the MarsEdit template window. You’ll probably see the default template that MarsEdit uses for all new blogs. Then click the “Edit Template” button in the lower-right corner of the window. With a post editor window open in MarsEdit, click the Preview icon in the toolbar to open the Preview window. For instance, here’s the single page view for this entry.įrom your browser, select “View Source.” This varies from browser to browser but in Safari you can just control-click the page content and then select it from the menu. Go to your blog and click on the title (usually) of one of your posts, to get the “all on one page” view. We’re going to build your template by starting with a “typical” entry page from your blog. I’m going to look at ways of streamlining this process in MarsEdit, but for the time being I thought it would help to post a sort of tutorial about how you can get your own blog set up with “perfect previews” in MarsEdit.
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For instance, Windows Live Writer uses a nifty trick where it posts a temporary entry and then immediately deletes it, so that it can get a “reference” page to build a template from. To be sure, there’s a lot MarsEdit could do to make this template-editing process easier. It won’t have any of the fantastic stylings of your blog until you edit the “template” that MarsEdit uses to generate the preview. Straight out of the box, MarsEdit’s preview looks pretty bland. Unfortunately, the initial setup is a little bit daunting. This is fantastic because you can spot formatting errors and typos before publishing the item. One of the most time-saving features of MarsEdit is its Preview window, which uses the power of Safari’s WebKit to render a browser-perfect version of your post before you send it to the blog.
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