http://radio.weblogs.com/0109398/ Copyright 2002 Joel Orr Fri, 16 Aug 2002 08:21:59 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss092 joel@joelorr.com joel@joelorr.com http://radio.weblogs.com/0109398/2002/08/16.html#a25 I've had an interesting realization: One of the things that so endears Radio to me is its graphical design. The choices of fonts, the layout, the default templates, are just good to look at. Sure, I could get other apps--Blogger, for example--to look as nice, by fiddling with templates. But Radio just does. <a href="http://www.eastgate.com/tinderbox" ">Tinderbox</a>, for one, does not. http://www.webentourage.com Just tried BlogApp; spent a while getting it to work (the url for the RPC2 may <b>not</b> end with a "/"); only to learn that it "escapes" single and double quotes--making it, as far as I can tell, useless for me. Sigh. http://www.eastgate.com/tinderbox/ A note-taking knowledge-capturing and -arranging, blog-making system with many unusual and wonderful features--like six or more ways to view your notes. http://radio.weblogs.com/0109398/2002/06/09.html#a7 I've had a <i>Blogger Blogspot</i> blog (say that three times fast!) for a few months now. But I've felt frustrated when I travel. I can add to my blog through an IE toolbar "Blog this!" button on my OS-X-running iBook, but I have no simple way to post long stories. On the PC, I set up a site with <i>CuteSITE Builder</i> - a truly marvelous and unpretentious tool from Globalscape. But I've found no equivalent for OS X. I'd been drawn to Radio, having heard for years about Frontier, and having been a long-time (and now long-ago) user of Dave's wonderful MORE outliner. So I decided to dive in. My first really dumb error was to somehow click the "Work Offline" choice under Radio's "File" menu; then I spent a long time scratching my head as to why it wouldn't Upstream or Publish. (Requested feature: When someone tries to Publish, a little window could pop up saying, "Remember? You are working offline." Or better: "Keep working offline?" with yes/no radio buttons.) Then I couldn't figure out what happens to Categories or Stories, or how visitors are supposed to access them. (By adding "/categories/" or "/stories" to your blog's URL, it turns out.) Dave's tutorials are very well written, in a powerful "don't-feel-stupid-when-you-goof-up-as -you-most-surely-will" way. And the questions I posted to the discussion group were answered kindly within minutes or few hours. I'm excited about the possibilities of this environment.