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Blogs (web logs)
You can create your own personal Web logs (blogs) using the Notes® blog template (dominoblog.ntf). After you create a blog application, you can then open it as you would any other Notes® application (NSF) file. From your blog application, you can create and manage content and blog discussions.
Advanced Blog topics
In addition to the initial setup and configuration, there are advanced views, forms, and tasks that you can use to manage your blog.
How can I secure a blog application?
You control access to the blog using an Access Control List (ACL) for the blog application, just as you would any for HCL Notes® database or application.

Blogs (web logs)
You can create your own personal Web logs (blogs) using the Notes® blog template (dominoblog.ntf). After you create a blog application, you can then open it as you would any other Notes® application (NSF) file. From your blog application, you can create and manage content and blog discussions.
- Getting started with Blogs
  View, post, and comment on blogs created with the Notes blog template.
- Blog quick reference
  Quickly find some of the most common and more advanced tasks for Web logs (blogs) and how to get started doing them.
- Advanced Blog topics
  In addition to the initial setup and configuration, there are advanced views, forms, and tasks that you can use to manage your blog.
  - How can I create a blog?
    When you create a blog application, a Site Setup document is created. The information you provide in the Site Setup document is used to populate a Configuration document and a User Profile document, which are created when you save the Site Setup document.
  - How can I secure a blog application?
    You control access to the blog using an Access Control List (ACL) for the blog application, just as you would any for HCL Notes® database or application.
  - Managing blog resources
    If you have the admin, webadmin, or webcompose role for a blog application, you can manage blog resources using Advanced views.
  - How can I create stylesheets for a blog?
    You can create a stylesheet for your blog.
  - How can I create JavaScript for a blog?
    In addition to the JavaScript™ provided in the blog template, you can create new JavaScript for your blog.
  - How to use HTML templates to control how a blog looks and feels
    HTML templates control how your blog looks and feels. Each template combines HTML with special system tags to display the resulting Web pages in a browser.
  - How can I create an HTML template for blogs?
    You can create HTML templates to supplement the HTML templates that are included in the blog application.
  - Configuring blogs
    If you have the admin, webadmin, or webcompose role for a blog application, you can configure your blog by using Advanced views.
  - Does the blog support RSS Feeds?
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  - What is the difference between using categories and tags?
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How can I secure a blog application?

You control access to the blog using an Access Control List (ACL) for the blog application, just as you would any for HCL Notes® database or application.

Open your blog application (myblog.nsf for example).
Click File > Application > Access Control.

Use these settings to allow people to read or create documents:

Table 1. Blog application access levels
Access	Setting
Allow anyone to read the blog	Specify Reader access for Anonymous
Allow anyone with Web access to post comments	Specify Author access for Anonymous. Enable the Create documents attribute.
Allow only specific individuals to post comments	Add each individual to the ACL. Give each individual Author access. Enable the Create documents attribute for each individual.

(Optional) Assign any of these ACL roles that are specific to the blog template:

Table 2. Blog template roles
Role	Access
admin	Edit all documents even if not listed as an editor
webadmin	View and use the blog template web client
webcompose	Submit content through the blog template web client

Click OK.

The blog application must be signed with a user ID that is allowed to run agents on the HCL Domino® server.

The ACL can also be used in conjunction with Security Groups so that you can also secure individual documents or categories of documents as well as defining access to the application as a whole.