I'm not very familiar with very many other blog sites, but this one uses a reference tag to display information that you've put somewhere else, like.. the WYSIWYG editor that you create your entries with. Other examples are things like your profile section of your side bar, "header" space above your main blog area; and even little things like the time and date that you post your entries.

If you look at your blog layout in the "main template edit" section of your Layout & Design page, you will see quite a bit of code. If you're planning on editing this layout, you're probably a little familiar with some of these codes. There's some CSS and some HTML, but there's also these little words inside brackets that look like [this]. These are the reference tags.

(Note: Blogdrive recently added a function that allows you to categorize your entries for easier browsing. Old blogs will have to be updated by adding a [categories] tag to your layout. Becareful when editing your layout, and copy your layout to a text document to secure yourself from irreparable damage. Then you can create your different catagories and label entries accordingly.)

I recently ran into a little trouble with a couple of these tags when I was working on my layout. In general, you can sort of put these things anywhere. Hell.. get creative! But some of the tags require a little attention to the way they're all setup. For a complete list of all tags and some information about how to implement them, click here.

While this page did help me figure out the problem with my comments section, it didn't explain that if you put the non-sensative tags inside the sensative area then these tags won't be recognized and they won't work. I was having some serious trouble with the tags for my next/previous page links, and still don't quite understand other aspects of what was going on.

However, I did realize that the reason these tags weren't working, but rather just showing up as regular [text], was because I just had them in the wrong place. As simple as the solution was, the problem had me stumped and still sort of has me stumped. They work, but when I try to put them where I want them, they have some alignment issue. That's another issue for another entry... THE END.

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