I added deepest sender and locally xml notepad to keep track of my files here and on the web.
perhaps i could use something else, but i am sick of notepad because there is no word wrap.
So I am left with
- 1. learn xml? learn rtf with wordpad?
- look at the programs that post html to blogs?
- I don’t want to use Word or open office anymore because the text is not easily portable to a blog or website or another system like blackberry.
- TBC – to be continued…
This leads to the question, what are the underlying principles for a work environment:
A) Try to kill two birds (or more) with one stone.
1. use the cloud
- keep everything synched between local and cloud
- three reasons for the cloud: storage, make public, and access from diff machines.
- allow everything to be public eventually, but still have drafts
- why not just post to a private blog, then make public? that is simpler…
- TBC – to be continued…
and
B) Keep it simple
- ) try to be an amateur not a professional
- a.) exclude complicated or incomplete options, eg tinymce, paid for software, etc.
- b.) try a wordpress only posting editor; wordpress is the de facto standard (more on this below)
- TBC – to be continued…
right now just trying a few options: wordpad, xml notepad, deepest sender.
I am basically making a substitute for the desktop/start environment.
Use wordpress as a standard; this is based on this thinking;
- only use a blog because a website is to complicated. Joomla, for example, requires intense non amateur setup.
- WordPress is hard enough. Assuming a free host like freehostia, setting up multiple blogs is non trivial. For example, the sql database must have a different prefix for each blog. This is not mentioned anywhere, so you have to make the mistake first and then talk to support (which is good and fast, but don’t lose any information by posting everything too soon; test it first)
- Any human made website requires that a page has to be uploaded. This requires a login, and a switch to an ftp program. then copy the file over, then view the website in a browser, then navigate to the page. Changes require the whole thing all over again.
- WordPress is the most standard or popular blogging software with plugins to do advanced functions. It covers the spectrum from easy (wordpress.com) to advanced.
Now, back to the beginning; eliminate notepad, move at minimum to wordpad. I still need to insert images and links. Lets check that out…
TBC – to be continued…
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