Blog Integration
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I have a blog and website, ..
I have it under the same domain but it has its own login and dashboard ect..I would like to fully integrate it to my website so it becomes a part of my main navigation... If anyone know's how to do this or even has an idea on where to start it is greatly appreciated
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Thank you...
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Hi Andrea
It will depend on which system / CMS you have used for your site.
For the blog, you need to install that in a sub-folder off of the root folder of your site (e.g. /blog sub-folder).
Then, within your main site you should be able to create a blog menu item type which allows you to point it to an external link. Although the link you are creating is not external to your domain, it can still be used internally.
Your link should be something like http://www.yoursite.com/blog which will point to the home page of your blog site (for the example above). Within your blog site you just need to provide a navigation link to go back to your home page at the root of your domain (i.e. http://www.yoursite.com). If you wanted to make the links back to your main site more user friendly you could add more menu items in your blog navigation to replicate those that you have as the main links on your main site.
I hope that helps and the above makes sense.
Peter
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