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Editing Your Preview Template

The default preview in MarsEdit probably doesn’t look much like your weblog, but you can improve that by editing your preview template.

  1. Open a post window, if one isn’t already open.
  2. Click the Preview button in the toolbar. The preview window appears.
  3. At the bottom right of the preview window, click the Edit Template button.
  4. Edit the template so that the preview in the preview window looks more like your weblog.

While editing, use the Insert Placeholder pulldown menu at the bottom left of the template editor to insert different elements into your template. These will be replaced with the actual values from your weblog posts when previewing in MarsEdit.

Template Editor screen shot

Note To get your preview looking just like your weblog, start by copying the HTML source from the web browser while viewing a post on your weblog. Paste the HTML into the template editor. Select all of the text from the post, and delete it. Use the Insert Placeholder popup menu to enter the Body placeholder where the post content used to be. You're off to a great start!

For a detailed description of this process, see the Red Sweater Blog post Perfect Preview With MarsEdit.