Inserting Serendipity Into a Table Cell ?

[mduque]

Hi there,

I'm currently looking for a good Blog system for my own website.
My website is hosted in Lunarpages, which is supporting Serendipity blog as well.

However, before I start going all mighty with the CSS and other things, my programming background is quite limited, therefore, I would like to ask, if is it possible or is extremely hard to implement the Serendipity blog into my own web page design?

To better illustrate what I mean, this is an image showing what I'm asking:

Full Image: http://i53.tinypic.com/34t60yq.jpg



This is a site with 4 rows, each with 100% width. The 2nd row is divided in 2, one cell for the menu on the left hand side and on the right hand side, where the pink box is, I would like to insert Serendipity in it.

Question:
Can I integrate Serendipity blog into the pink box without using iframe? Without iframe, the height of the page can expand accordingly with the number of the messages in the blog.

Thank you for any help / advise.

Regards.

[Timbalu]

Yes you can. Please read
http://www.s9y.org/123.html and http://www.s9y.org/55.html
About the box sizing, just build it by having CSS min-, and max- sized values and be srollable to behave like an iframe.

[mduque]

Yes you can. Please read
http://www.s9y.org/123.html and http://www.s9y.org/55.html
About the box sizing, just build it by having CSS min-, and max- sized values and be srollable to behave like an iframe.

Hi Timbalu,

Please correct me if im wrong. I just read the two links you provided and they sound not very complicated to embed, however, so I have my own website and left that td pink box for the blog? Now what I need to do is to copy and paste the embed code into that td and done??

Also, I am not after iframe or similar way to display the blog. That pink box where the blog will be, actually expands in height depending on the size of the blog or messages. Is that also possible?

So by embedding sdp blog into my own site, everything will be displayed including my own navigation bar?

Thanks mate for helping out.

[Timbalu]

Well, these links just get you on the way up, but in your case you need to make your knowledge yourself. I myself never used the embed code before, so I cant help out with that, but its essentials are: set up serendipity, include all the output in the wrapper file and embed the wrapper in your pink box.

There are some decisions you have to make..., which template, include only the content (the blog-entries), having sidebars, headers, footers, tweak serendipity internally to serve your needs, etc. This will need you to understand some behaviours of a blog, some php and some web developing skills, templating your serendipity and customize your pink box to behave like an iframe by liquid CSS settings.