Monday, February 28, 2005

Welcome!


I'm looking forward to meeting you all tomorrow - should be a great class!

Wednesday, February 23, 2005

Bookmarklet


MarsEdit can place a 'bookmarklet' into Safari's bookmark bar. Clicking on this will automatically create a post to your Blog using MarsEedit with the current url from Safari quoted.

Yahoo!: "Frontpage"



(Via reference.)

MarsEdit Scripts


Currently playing in iTunes: What Goes Up... by Alan Parsons Project
Yahoo!

Trying out a Custom HTML tag


Tuesday, February 15, 2005

Here's a picture


Monday, February 14, 2005

Comparing Blogger & Tangelo


Blogger is certainly easier to setup.
Advantages of Blogger include:
  1. Comments builtin

  2. Easier to choose a template



Advantages of Tangelo include:
  1. Can host on own server

  2. Simpler Image Access

  3. More control of template - BUT requires significant HTML & CSS editing

Wednesday, February 09, 2005

Headings


OK - so MarsEdit doesn't automatically create a heading for posts - so you need to use the heading tags from the HTML menu on your first line of the post to create a heading!
Here's a couple of pics of the new MacMini - very cool little machine!
Trying out the web browser syndicate feature of MarsEdit.

Apple - Mac mini: ""



(Via .)

Tuesday, February 08, 2005

My mug!

Testing the 'Post to Weblog' feature from NetNewsWire:



Pod My Ride: "OK, the simple solution is to buy a BMW with the iPod option. Other auto manufacturers have announced iPod compatibility too and for Apple this has been like adding hotels to Park Place and the Board Walk. Now for those of us who are not in the market for a new car just yet, I have some suggestions: read on.........

Read more...

Support Powerpage.org by shopping at Amazon.com!

"

(Via PowerPage.org.)

Whats the 'insert image' facility?

Here I am attempting to edit my Blog using

'MarsEdit'

, a blog editing application. Just trying to see what advantages there are in this approach, and what facilities.
It provides a useful, though limited, HTML wsyiwyg.

Monday, February 07, 2005

Tables?










1 2
3 4

Images 101

Inserting an image via html

Links 2

Hmmm... link rendered as plain text.
Lets try some HTML
http://www.powerpage.org

Links

So... how do external links render?
http://www.powerpage.org

Basically done!

Not much more to be done really. I like the group blog capability, and the external hosting option is interesting (via FTP). It will be interesting to compare Blogger.com to creating a Blog using 'Tangelo' on the ltxserver.

Blog Setup

Linking to an external image for my profile was as simple as pointing Blogger to my web servers image folder. Clicking on 'Settings' above allowed choice of basic setup needed. An atom newsfeed is crreated automatically. NetNewsWire reads the atom feed.

First Post

Setup has been very straightforward so far. Will attempt to get newsfeed working.