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The most recent date node is expanded. All the other nodes are collapsed."/>				<outline text="This way, the latest and freshest information  stands out."/>				</outline>			<outline text="Checking 'Outline individual posts', then clicking 'Save' will add wedges to each post title on your weblog's pages.">				<outline text="This is activeRenderer's 'extreme' outline style." type="link" url="http://www.activerenderer.com/images/tutor/aRprefs2.gif"/>				<outline text="All date paragraphs are expanded. Post paragraphs matching the most recent publication date are expanded. Earlier posts are collapsed, only the post titles are listed."/>				<outline text="If you post without providing titles (you shouldn't :-), activeRenderer will try to make up one by taking the first sentence (as delimited by a 'dot') of your post. Since you may be using dots besides their role as periods, this sometimes leads to queer results."/>				</outline>			</outline>		<outline text="&lt;b&gt;Step 3&lt;/b&gt;: add the 'Latest' widget to your home page.">			<outline text="Checking 'Display Latest widget' and clicking 'Save' will add a 'calendar' like feature which expands and collapses posts in your weblog's home page according to which date you click." type="link" url="http://www.activerenderer.com/images/tutor/aRprefs3.gif"/>			<outline text="This widget makes browsing through your collapsed posts easier."/>			</outline>		<outline text="&lt;b&gt;Step 4&lt;/b&gt;: re-publish your home page.">			<outline text="You may either submit a new post from your Desktop home page, or bring Radio to the front and select the Radio / Publish / Weblog Home Page menu option."/>			<outline text="If you are satisfied with the result, you may have to re-publish some category or archive pages as well, check Radio's Radio / Publish menu option."/>			</outline>		<outline text="&lt;b&gt;Step 5&lt;/b&gt;: customize, customize !">			<outline text="Customize your weblog's presentation.">				<outline text="activeRenderer performs the outline style trick by backing up the current #dayTemplate.txt and #itemTemplate.txt files from Radio's www folder, and replacing them with activeRendered versions.">					<outline text="The backups are located in &lt;i&gt;www/activeRenderer/local/backup&lt;/i&gt;. They are restored to &lt;i&gt;www&lt;/i&gt; when you turn the outline style off in the preferences, or uninstal activeRenderer."/>					</outline>				<outline text="If the activeRendered templates do not fit your weblog's theme perfectly, you're welcome to customize them further using any text editor.">					<outline text="Your modifications will be saved  and safe over time, provided you raise each template's version number (in the top comment tag) by a significant offset. My customized templates start at version 100." type="link" url="http://www.activerenderer.com/images/tutor/itemTemplate1.gif"/>					</outline>				<outline text="The 'Latest' widget is inserted into your #homeTemplate.txt file by the &lt;i&gt;daySwitch&lt;/i&gt; Usertalk macro call.">					<outline text="By default, the macro is inserted just above the 'calendar' widget, you may wish to place it somewhere else in the template. You can do so with a text editor, by cutting and pasting the &lt;i&gt;daySwitch&lt;/i&gt; line." type="link" url="http://www.activerenderer.com/images/tutor/daySwitch1.gif"/>					</outline>				</outline>			<outline text="Customize your CSS as well.">				<outline text="activeRenderer's default templates links to the /activeRenderer/activerenderer.css file."/>				<outline text="This file has the definitions of all the styles used to render paragraphs, indentations, and links."/>				<outline text="There's nothing preventing you from modifying it to suit your needs.">					<outline text="First study the source code for some of your rendered pages, to locate the proper classes."/>					<outline text="Then locate the matching definition in activerenderer.css and work on it.">						<outline text="Remember to update the version number on your customized version, to prevent it from being wiped out by an automatic update."/>						</outline>					<outline text="Since styles defined directly in the page overrule styles defined in a stylesheet, it is probably a better idea to redefine your customized RSS rules in the #homeTemplate.txt file, in the header section, rather than modify the default styles in the stylesheet." type="link" url="http://www.activerenderer.com/images/tutor/embeddedCSS.gif"/>					</outline>				</outline>			</outline>		<outline text="Outlining your weblog's home page is a good way of packing more content on limited screen real estate while keeping the whole layout simple and easy to read. Another way of reaching the same goal is to take advantage of outlining's transclusion (aka inclusion) property: check out &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.activerenderer.com/outlines/tutor/aRTutorial7.html&quot;&gt;part 7&lt;/a&gt;."/>		</body>	</opml>