Manila need more Templates for specific purposes. Templates and weblogging. I remember back in the day—1996 or thereabouts—when Frontier’s HTML framework was new, it seemed to lots of people that the idea of using templates to build websites was an idea from outer space.

(Frontier wasn’t the only system to use templates, I’m sure, it just happens to be the one I used and later worked on.)

The attitude of lots of people I talked to was that multi-file search-and-replace was all they’d ever need.

I think weblogging changed that. There are now lots—hundreds of thousands? I don’t know—of people who have some experience using templates to publish on the web (whether they’re using UserLand software or Blogger or Movable Type or whatever). They still might not be using templates for their entire sites, but at least it’s no longer a completely alien idea.

Anyway, this is just an observation. I think it’s cool. [inessential.com]

Despite the explosion of weblogs, templates are few and far between. Seems that the aesthetic is also important for folks, as much as functionality. Who wants a butt ugly weblog. Call it human nature.. In education we need both the aesthetic and functionality that leads to making collaboration enticing and easy. I guess my biggest need is enticing templates that promote collaboration and better functionality that makes it easier to for said collaboration... more later.. I need more coffee.

The folks to see about both the aesthetic and functionality is Erin Clerico and Bryan Bell of Weblogger.com. I am sounding like a broken record on this.point...
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Like father, like son. This Reuters graphic published in Yahoo! News - Politics yesterday speaks volumes:

[Radio Free Blogistan]

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Manila Roadmap Needed Now that I'm working with Manila again, I'm remembering all the things that infuriate me about Manila. I can't for the life of me figure out how to get my new site to show me the Edit In Radio buttons so I can use the outliner to edit my templates. I refuse to edit the template in a web form. I will not do it! ;-> Anyway, I have gone to my own personal membership page and told the software that I have Radio and that it's running on port 5335. I've been to the prefs page for the site (I'm a managing editor) and made sure the pref is on there too. I look everywhere for the stinkin button, but it's nowhere to be found. I guess I'll have to resort to looking at the source code to figure out what I'm not doing that I need to do. [Scripting News]

BAM! What happens when the big cheese doesn't work or play with his own product...... SebF,Will R, PatD and others have been asking for better features of Manila for tighter integration between Radio and Manila and just better and newer tools to help in collaboration. Userland, we need a roadmap, a sketch on where you are taking Manila.
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