Mon 29 Aug 2005
Some thoughts/questions that popped up for a new user writing a blog entry:
-there’s no ‘write entry’ on front page; have to enter the murky realm of ‘admin’?
-wondered what ’save draft’ would do but didn’t want to take time to find out
-how best to deal with a bulleted list?
-practice with editting earlier entries
-possible to print a single entry?
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August 29th, 2005 at 11:36 am
Karen,
I’ll address each of your issues mentioned above.
Good point regarding no ‘write entry’ link. I added a ‘Create new entry’ link near the bottom of the sidebar. Clicking on this will take you directly to the ‘write post’ page if you are logged in. Else, it will take you to the login prompt first before redirecting to the ‘write post’ page.
‘Save Draft’ is a very useful feature; I use it almost every time I am writing a new post. It works similar to any email client, saving the current copy of your draft. You can work on numerous posts at a time, and maintain them all as drafts, until you publish them.
As for bulleted lists, simply use the html tags ol,ul,li. Unfortunately, this may not work for comments.
I’ve created an edit on this entry a while back. A good convention is to start at the bottom with a capitalized EDIT, followed by your name and date.
You can print any single entry through the web browser. Though it’s not obvious, we are using css to strip off the unnecessary blocks so that only the post gets printed. Try it out for yourself… try printing this page (view it with preview).
A couple other things to note:
I mentioned in an earlier comment (in the prev. post) about the Uncategorized category. This should be considered a placeholder category. It is used by default, but we should try to avoid it whenever possible.
A category should relate to the CONTENT of the post, not the context. Hence, we probably don’t want “Notes” or “Meetings” as categories, but we are more interested in what those notes or meetings cover. This post was correctly categorized as Tools. Further, using the word Notes in the post title helps cue the audience of the context of the post.
Check out that Active Threads list on the sidebar. It’s showing which threads have recieved the latest comments. Cool stuff!
August 30th, 2005 at 9:26 am
I moved site-related links to the top of the sidebar, under the heading “Actions”. This should make it easier (and more intuitive) to login/out, create new entries, and administer the site.