Click here to support the Daily Grail for as little as $US1 per month on Patreon

Site Info: Grail Blogs and Video Embeds

Just a quick note bringing a couple of things to your attention. First, I’ve been slowly (as time allows) redesigning the blogs here on TDG, to try and make them a little more personal. Work is continuing, but things are starting to shape up – you’ll notice now (see Katya’s blog for example) that every member’s blog now has a personal info box with avatar, bio and website. If you do not have these details but wish to, you can add them by going to ‘My Account’ in the right-hand navigation menu, clicking edit, and using the appropriate tabs for adding an avatar as well as biographical information.

Beneath the ‘blogger info’ block there is also now a block showing the ten most recent blog entries from that person, making it easier to browse through their writings.

Lastly, I have added functionality for members to embed videos from the major sites (YouTube, Vimeo, Blip etc) into their blogs. This has always been difficult to do, as it required opening up the accepted input to possibly dangerous code. However, using a specialist module, you should now be able to embed videos simply by pasting in the URL of the desired video. I have tested it and it worked okay for me, but please let me know if you experience any problems doing this. The good thing about this is that the fallback from any failure in embedding still gives readers the original link to the video in question.

I still have things on my to-do list (such as moving the navigation menu beneath the blogger info blocks), and there’s a real bonus at the end of it all, but I’ll let you know more as I get these things implemented.

Mobile menu - fractal