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•••Meantime, iBlog for OS X
Since I had to temporarily slap together some makeshift access and couldn't publish for a while, I took the time to snoop around for new and unusual things. One that I was actually quite impressed with was iBlog.
iBlog is a sleek brushed metal looking 3rd party iApplication that's pretty well coordinated with iPhoto, iMovie, iTunes and iDisk. I tossed together a couple of sample pages to test out the templating and style sheets. The first is a mock-up of a missionary journal, which could be more strictly focused on my reservation work. The second is kind of a workspace for me to expend energy theologically chewing through things myself. Kind of a perpetual 'rough draft' stack of stuff.
There is not yet any built-in commenting system other than including an email link at the end of posts. One could always incorporate YACCS code into the templates, I suspect. Also, whether something strange with the CSS or not, Safari doesn't print or make PDF's nicely for me with the generated pages. Printing from Safari got me 8 pages of a 2" column of text. Creating a PDF got me one partial page in Safari. Internet Explorer handled both printing and making PDF's from the generated pages just fine (two pages, from the workspace articles), but Safari may well be much pickier about precise standards compliance.
I do love the easy drag and drop categorizing, the integrated default save locations -- which drop local copies right where your OS X's built in Apache web server can immediately serve 'em up -- and it's very slick and easy uploads to iDisk. iBlog is off to a great start. Adding a commenting feature and perhaps getting a few kinks out of standards compliance might make it play nicer with Safari.
All in all, iBlog is worth a look -- and a second look. I'm not tossing my Radio Userland in the trash just yet, mind you. But iBlog may well become my easy to use content management tool of choice for my locally served pages.
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•••Broadband Working, Network Not
Frustrating to have my broadband kinks all worked out and apparently stable, only to have my 'work branch' of my LAN go down for a week. Good news is, I think I've got things working again as of this afternoon.
Thanks for bearing up under the technical difficulties, gracious readers.
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