An online notebook
So, this is WordPress. I have been looking into different blogging systems, like Blogger and using the wiki on my site, as well as others that charge, like Typepad.
I thought I would give this a try though coz a) it’s free and b) it installs onto my own webspace so I don’t need to worry about slow connections which knackered my experience of using Blogger.
So, far, it’s so good, and there is plenty to find out about – it’s a very thorough bit of software.
Here’s a great new use of a blog to keep an eye on: CrapAuthors.com.
It basically tracks the progress of a whole range of writers that the bloggers deem to be of negligible literary value!
Top journo and Palimpsest resident William Shaw now has a blog: http://singingslowly.ebloggy.com/
www.davebriggs.net has been registered and a basic template put in place. Not sure about the colours yet, they might be a bit too dark. I did loads of work on the plan last night so hopefully tonight I will be able to sit down at Dreamweaver and bash most of it out.
Still not sure what I am going to do about this blog. I would like to be able to have different topics that I could assign to posts on here, and those post then feed onto the relevant page of my main site, but that might be a bit ambitious for my limited abilities. I will put a post onto the PCPlus forum and see if anyone has anything suitable. Otherwise I may as well stick to Blogger, though I have been looking at www.livejournal.com as another possible system.
This is a great idea. Blogger allows me to post by simply sending an email to a special address. The subject of my email make the title of the post. Easy.
I’ve just started using gmail and I have to say it is by far the best email system I have used. Ful marks to Google on a great piece of work and perhaps in the future they will integrate it further with Blogger. It’s fast and easy to use, so much better than the cumbersome Hotmail. I was sent the invitation to gmail from Robert Beveridge, who I chat to on a mailing list now and again. His excellent website can be found here.
One problem, however. Using the email feature results in some very odd things happening to line breaks. Oh dear.