[technology] - Helpful Radio Resources

Well, since I'm embarking on a Radio experiment, I thought I would start collecting in this story the resources I found useful when I was building and configuring Radio for my purposes. Perhaps it will help others...

• Discussion forum on radio.userland.com is the place to post comments, suggestions, etc... People usually respond fast, and it's proved very helpful

• Going Even Crazier with Macros tell you how to write a macro that you can then keep on the filesystem, and reuse wherever you want to. Finally, i'm going to be able to get somewhere!

• Website and Scripting Tutorial was useful to learn the basics of scripting. My only problem is that it's not always clear to me how Frontier relates to Radio.

• Radio Userland Exposed a useful resource for fixing a potential loss of data. Has not happened to me yet, but who knows... and it tought me a thing or two about how Radio is structured.

• Some good scripts" were found on this page; most important was the "myFixFilePathsAndAddresses", which should help fix problems linked to moving Radio around on the filesystem.

Another small section I think may be useful, at least for me: questions I have about Radio, for which I have not foung an answer yet... Here goes:

• Most of my stories will be text and photo based. I am trying to figure out the best to 1) upload pictures 2) display then in my story [answer: place the pictures in the www/images/ directory; they will get upstreamed to the server; then use the following grammar to include the picture in your story: radio.macros.imageref("/images/name_of_picture.jpg") -- don't forget the %s and the brackets]

• How do I link to a story? I mean, I need to create a link to a specific story, and I'd like the link to work from both my desktop, and the cloud

• Can I get Radio to render all my pages locally, so I can look at them before upstreaming them to the server

Another list: things one needs to "get" with Radio:

• Radio creates static sites (mostly - some exceptions when it's hosted on the Community server)