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| A Blog Vent |
| 07.13.04 (1:26 pm) [edit] |
Hey Weblog designers and site hosters! I got a little bit tired of tBlog, so I started looking around for a new host for this little compendium of my writings. Now, I know that you are not really making any money off of this and it is probably not right for me to complain, but I will.
There only seems to be two kinds of blogging sites and software out there, ones for complete newbies and ones for html/php/css/etc. wizards. How about one in the middle? Not everyone who keeps a blog is out surfing and when the urge strikes them will stop by their blog with a couple of lines of information, an email to the world if you will. I am sure there are many like me who write things in advance, writing that may need to be saved in several different formats.
One thing that never ceases to amaze me is that, considering that a weblog is HTML, no blogging site I have found has a simple little button on the "New Entry" page: Upload File. If I could upload my HTML or .rtf file I would be as happy as a clam. Opening a text editor, opening the file, cutting and pasting the whole thing, is just a pain. On most pages, I can upload images, but almost never HTML files! In fact it is so bad that an offline LiveJournal client won't even import HTML files. Stupid.
There is a nice on/offline interface for many of the blogging setups and sites, W.Bloggar (www.bloggar.com) which does import HTML files, but you sort of have to trick it into doing it. Not very smart.
Why is this important? It isn't really. But even in straight writing like I do, bolds and italics are nice. My word processor exports HTML -- so why should I put the codes in by hand? Why should I have to cut and paste a whole document??
A weblog is pretty much HTML code -- let me write it once and upload it!!
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