blogging with in a xara designer pro x10 web site

[Albacore]

If your news isn't huge I have used "shoutbox" in standard web pages its so easy to use. Have a look here: http://www.myshoutbox.com/
You don't need to have or use the smiley faces which don't look right and lets people reply to your news.

[Egg Bramhill]

Hi Paul - Couldn't disagree at all, that's why I asked the OP:

Linked my latest post from blogger to a placeholder in WD10.

As far as I can see it's just a link to a seperate blog page and there's NO Xara placeholder involved.

[Acorn]

I can't see how you've your blog into a placeholder. I only see a button on your site that links to your blogger page. Placeholders are a problem if you don't know the contents windows length and don't want additional scroll bars.
Am I missing something here?

Egg, what I have done with Wordpress (WP) is embed the WP site in a Placeholder that have CSS content that shrinks the blog a tad:

<style type="text/css">
  #iframeBlog {
     zoom: 0.9;
    -moz-transform: scale(0.9);
    -moz-transform-origin: 0 0;
    -o-transform: scale(0.9);
    -o-transform-origin: 0 0;
    -webkit-transform: scale(0.9);
    -webkit-transform-origin: 0 0;
  }
</style>

The typical Placeholder would be:
<iframe src="http://www.duckduckgo.com" width="100%" height="100%" frameborder="0" scrolling="yes" id="iframeBlog" name="xara_iframe"><p>Your browser does not support iframes.</p></iframe>

The final trick is to add an Infinite scroll Plug-in to WP.

The end result is a page that is Xara fixed length with one set of vertical scrolls.

Acorn

[letsgofishing]

Hi Mike, great site and great photography.

I can't see how you've your blog into a placeholder. I only see a button on your site that links to your blogger page. Placeholders are a problem if you don't know the contents windows length and don't want additional scroll bars.

Am I missing something here?

Thanks for the comments Egg.
At the bottom of my home page there's a button that says Read my latest Blog post - this links to the blog page of my actual site where there's a placeholder with just the most recent post from Blogger inside it. Yes, there is also a blog button on the menu bar that takes you to my Blogger page and yes, if my latest post is too long, it will be cut off. I guess I should add a "read more" button at the bottom of the page. My thinking was to let visitors be able to read my latest post without leaving my actual site. It also gives the viewer to opportunity to subscribe to my blog via RSS from inside my site. I'm am definitely not a Xara expert and know next to nothing about code except what I have learned form you and others on this site. Any other suggestions would be appreciated.
Mike