Monday, March 11, 2002


I am trying the drawLeftLinks macro to add a list of links, outside the navLinks file, to the left column. I used some old instructions for the drawLeftLinks sample macro. It works like a champ except for one thing. To create the links in the outline, you must use the outline/Add Link... menu command in Radio. It took me a couple of minutes to figure this out, then to find the command (which used to be somewhere else in radio 7.x). I made some minor adjustments to the macro. I guess, since it is a sample, that is safe to do.
1:40:08 PM      

Adding Meta Elements: I played around with adding meta tags to some of my stories today. It turns out to be pretty simple to do. I just added a couple of new directives to a story, like so:
#metaDescription "How to use Radio renderers"
#metaKeywords "renderObject, renderFile, render, Radio"
Next, I modified my #template.txt file to include a one-line change in the <head> section -
<%metaTags()%>
This is a new macro I wrote that will look for the optional directives described above, and create corresponding meta tags for them. The metaTags macro is available for you to download. If you do a view source on A BWG to Radio Renderers, you can see the results.
12:53:30 PM      

I found a small bug in my reverse chronological sorting of stories. I was not zero-padding my dates (and I should have been, shame on me). I updated my stories index and posted it for interested readers.
12:28:10 PM      

I have had a chance to reflect, and mellow, on my thoughts about barriers to K-Logs. This is softened-version of a too-negative view I posted the other day.
11:43:54 AM