Tuesday, March 19, 2002

Learning by weblog While attempting to learn how to develop and manage a weblog, I'm learning all manner of other skills. First, there's the whole HTML, themes, templates, macros issue. Then, I stumble into www.37signals.com . Clearly, I can't create a site the wrong way, much less understand how to make the corrections that this organization suggests. So much to learn. 10:24:29 PM     Comments[]

Learning HTML, scripting and web design!!!                            [yes...where do I start???] Russ Lipton: "Anyway, I'm thinking I will dig up a few links to useful scripting, HTML and web design tutorials on the Web (hint: how about some help from you-all out there on stuff that is current and literate)?" In all of my prowling of weblogs, websites and the like, I don't think there is anyone better-suited to providing or at least indexing some resources. Please take a look at the link above and add a comment that helps Russ compile a good list. He claims to be 50, but it is pretty obvious he's one of those 18-year old 24x7 coders; he needs your help and so do I. If he's 18, that makes me 16. Maybe this is also something that can find its way into Andy's Resource Directory when he gets back on the 28th. 6:56:02 PM     Comments[]

Congratulations in advance to Dave & Userland Software! We may not figure the big new partnership out in advance, but we've come to expect rather profound stuff from Dave and the guys at Userland. It sounds like the New York Times to me! This statement alone makes it worth the suspense: It's for people who like poetry, books, movies, art, education, food, fashion, health, travel and technology. It's a breath mint - it's a candy mint - it's a developer's tool - it's a user's tool! It's all good!! 6:27:14 PM     Comments[]

RSS News Feeds RSS Feeds seem like a vital tool to those of us who are "merely" operating a weblog or personal web site. If the primary reason my site exists is to comment on other sites, the news and occasionally interject an original thought, it would seem my RSS feed subscriptions are pretty important. Beyond the list of 100 most popular that exists somewhere in Radio Userland, where does one go to find RSS feeds? If I go to (e.g.) Fast Company magazine, do they offer RSS news feeds? How does one know? On another subject, if you enter a title on a post and think better about it later, can you delete only the title, or must you delete the entire post? A. Looks like you have to delete the post and re-enter it without the title. 5:48:02 PM     Comments[]

Note to self: Pasting a silly little picture in a post is a pain! 3:34:46 PM     Comments[]

Radio Static? With Russ Lipton's How To Place Pictures In Your Weblog, I've gotten the answer to another question in the Radio Static? list. Still diggin' 12:46:45 PM     Comments[]

No news you haven't read It is 10:30a.m. CST. I just finished going through my news aggregator for the first time this morning. I'm posting nothing. I deleted everything. This points to 3 conclusions: Nothing was worth printing from mainstream sources. Most of it was old news. The weblogs I subscribe to are so widely subscribed that nothing I would post would be particularly unique or useful. All the blogs have the other blogs posts. I need some new RSS feeds. One question, though. If I were going to title this particular post differently and assign a link, what would be logical? What would be the title and link if I understood how Userland intended for us to use those features? How would Google-IT apply? 10:41:57 AM     Comments[]

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