Xanga Skins Reference




Skins Tag Library
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TAGDESCRIPTION
<$Blogrings$>Displays a list of your Xanga Blogrings.
<$Calendar$>Displays your posting archive calendar.
<$Email$>Displays your email address.
<$Event_Link$>Displays the URL to your events.
Usage: <A HREF="<$Event_Link$>">View my events</A>
<$Guestbook_Link$>Displays the URL to your guestbook.
Usage: <A HREF="<$Guestbook_Link$>">Sign my guestbook</A>
<$Next_Link$>Displays the URL to your next 5 posts.
Usage: <A HREF="<$Next_Link$>">Read next 5 posts</A>
<$No_Search$>Place this tag inside the HEAD section of your Xanga Skin if you don't want search engines like Google or Yahoo to store your site
<$Posts$>Displays your Xanga posts. If you'd like more control over the formatting of your Xanga posts, read the Advanced Xanga Post Formatting section.
<$Previous_Link$>Displays the URL to your previous 5 posts.
Usage: <A HREF="<$Previous_Link$>">Read previous 5 posts</A>
<$Private_Site_Link$>Displays the URL to the user's private site. NOTE: your readers can NOT access your private site using this link; they can only be taken to their own private site.
<$Private_Site_Tagline$>If the user visiting your site is signed in, this tag displays a text link with their username, which when clicked, takes the user to their private site. Otherwise, this displays a text link labeled "join", allowing a user to join Xanga.
<$Profile_Info$>Displays your profile info. You can edit your profile info as well as control what fields to display here.
<$Profile_Link$>Displays the link to view your profile page.
Usage: <A HREF="<$Profile_Link$>">View my profile</A>
<$Profile_Pic$>Displays the URL of your profile picture. For example, the following HTML code will display your profile picture: <IMG SRC="<$Profile_Pic$>">
<$Review_Link$>Displays the URL to your reviews.
Usage: <A HREF="<$Review_Link$>">Read my reviews</A>
<$Search$>Displays the Xanga search box.
<$Share_This_Skin$>If you want to share your skin with other Xangans, include this link on your site. Clicking this link allows others to use your template.
Usage: <A HREF="<$Share_This_Skin$>">Share my skin!</A>
<$Signin_Link$>The URL of the signin link.
Usage: <A HREF="<$Signin_Link$>">signin</A>
<$Signin_Tagline$>If the user visiting your site is signed in, this tag displays a text linked labeled "signout", allowing the user to signout. Otherwise is displays a link labeled "signin".
<$Signout_Link$>The URL of the signin link.
Usage: <A HREF="<$Signin_Link$>">signin</A>
<$Sites_I_Read$>Displays a list of the Xangans in your Sites I Read list.
<$Subscribe_Link$>Displays the URL where other Xangans can subscribe to your site.
Usage: <A HREF="<$Subscribe_Link$>">Subscribe to me</A>
<$Username$>Display your username. Facilitates sharing of skins by letting other users share the skin without having to change usernames.
<$Weblog_Link$>Displays the URL to your weblogs (otherwise known as your Xanga front page).
Usage: <A HREF="<$Weblog_Link$>">Read my weblog</A>
<$Xanga_Image_1$>Displays the following image and link to Xanga:
<$Xanga_Image_2$>Displays the following image and link to Xanga:
<$Xanga_Image_3$>Displays the following image and link to Xanga:





Advanced Xanga Post Formatting
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Xanga Skins allows you to control many different aspects of your posts. For information on how to use these advanced tags, read our Skins Tutorial.

Here is an example of the advanced tags:
<Xanga>
     <Xanga_Date_Header>
          <$Xanga_Date$><BR>
     </Xanga_Date_Header>

     <$Xanga_Posts$><BR>

</Xanga>

TAGDESCRIPTION
<Xanga>
</Xanga>
This tag starts processing your Xanga posts. Everything in between these tags will be displayed in your posts section. The tags below must be inside this section.
<Xanga_Date_Header>
</Xanga_Date_Header>
All code inside these tags will be displayed for each entry date only.
<$Xanga_Date$> Displays the date of the posts. This tag must be inside the Xanga_Date_Header section.
<$Xanga_Post$> Displays your Xanga Posts.





CSS Definitions
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We've tried to keep the outputs of these tags as simple and flexible as possible, but in certain cases, we include CSS definitions in order to have more control over your site. To take advantage of these tags, just include a CSS definition for them in the <STYLE> section of your site. If you don't want to use these tags, just ignore them in your CSS definitions. We will be adding more to this section based on feedback. You can learn more about CSS here.

TAGDESCRIPTION
taglinesControls the "eprop/comment" taglines under each post.
MonthNameControls the month name in the archive calendar.
calPreviousControls the << link (the "previous" link) in the archive calendar.
calNextControls the >> link (the "next" link) in the archive calendar.
DayNameControls the names of the days (Sun, Mon, etc) in the archive calendar.
DateNumberControls the dates in the archive calendar.





Notes & Restrictions
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Helpful Links
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