Darci Chapman: Radio UserLand

Thu, 25 Sep 2003 04:04:16 GMT

Add blank lines to Radio navigator links. Some people are having trouble using my tip on adding a blank line to navigator links in Radio.

To include a blank line, add an element with a space as its name:

<item name=" "/>.

I'm using this on Workbench. As long as you include a space or an   entity in between the quote marks, it will render as a blank line when the links are displayed. [Rogers Cadenhead: Radio Userland Kick Start]

Sun, 21 Sep 2003 04:12:17 GMT

So, is this particular WMP macro working? :-)

Rambling about Userland and New Functionality

Sun, 21 Sep 2003 03:46:05 GMT

So, if you're any kind of regular visitor (I think I have a few ;-) you'll see that once again I've change the theme. Days like today I wish I were a PaintShop Pro guru-kinda-gal but I'm not. So I have to make do with what's out there and it seems that the themes for Userland (as opposed to Manila) are a little on the scarce side. I seriously contemplated getting a Manila site at weblog.com but $10/month just to have a theme that I would most likely get tired of in three or four months? And my long term plan is to move off of Userland hosting anyhow so if I go the Manila route, I'd be committed to that for the long term.

Anyhow, I've been wanting to add, well, what I would call "cutsie" stuff to this blog so today I took a stab at it. I've been envious of those blogs that have iTune and other such plug-ins that basically say what you've been listening to lately. I did track down BlogAmp (for WinAmp 2.x) which is fairly cool (though it doesn't handle streaming mp3 very well) and was recently pointed to this Windows Media Player macro that will grab the data from WMP and post it along with your Radio Userland entry (ala LiveJournal). It even might be pretty straight forward to do the same thing with WinAmp (I'm guessing a hack to the WMP macro combined with the DoSomething plug-in for WinAmp would do the trick).

I also hear that TrackBack is now available for Radio Userland and while it showed up briefly on before I changed themes, it's gone now... probably needs to have the macro added back in a template somewhere. And even more recently, Comment Notification was added.

In other blogging related news that's not related Radio Userland, it would seem that Google (who bought Blogger several months ago) now how's a "BlogThis!" tool -- similar to Radio's posting from the its news aggregator. If there's one for Movable Type out there somewhere, that will just about remove the last remaining reason for why I switched from MT to Radio ;-)

Oh, and unless you're really behind the times, you know all about the Monthly Archive macro, right!?

Various and Sundry

Wed, 16 Jul 2003 19:38:47 GMT

I'm swamped with wedding planning -- only three more days to go! Future in-laws from Sweden have been here since Sunday evening. Next week is the honeymoon, mortgage refinance closing and due date for grad school tuition :-)
It's official, I have bought Radio Userland now that my 30 day trial is up. Overall, I really like it; however, I noticed not too long ago that the title of my posts (under this theme) are not showing up. I plan on modifying and cleaning up this theme in August as my techie project for the month.
I attended training for answerland.org and I know I'm just going to love volunteering for that!

That's it from this part of the world until July 25th or so!

Index of Posts

Fri, 20 Jun 2003 05:55:07 GMT

Somebody else who thinks Radio UserLand is just too nifty!

Creating an index of weblog posts in Radio. Inspired by Rob Henerey's suggestion, I've written a Radio script that displays an index of weblog posts for the main weblog or a category.

Looking at the output of the scripts, I wish I had started writing post titles earlier than February. [Rogers Cadenhead: Radio Userland Kick Start]