Posted by thuso on May 26, 2005, at 10:06:25
In reply to Re: differences, posted by Dr. Bob on May 26, 2005, at 0:24:32
> > most of them also allow a blogger to make their posts private
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> I think that would take a lot of work here, so there might be a wait for that feature... :-)I really don't know how much work it would take. I doubt it will take too much extra coding, but I guess making sure everything works correctly would be a good first step. :-) Besides, people seem to get really excited when new features are announced, so holding off on the private thing might be a great way to reintroduce the blog feature after it's innitial excitement dies down. It's always fun to have some surprises up your sleeve. ;-)
> Thanks, I'm not very familiar with them myself. A couple questions to start:
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> 1. What if the entries were in chronological order, like the posts here? Reverse chronological seems to be >more common in blogs...I guess you could do it anyway you want to. It is your website! haha! People here are used to chronological order, so I don't see why it wouldn't work well. I personally prefer the reverse chronological order. Every forum, blog, and email I use does it this way. It's sooooo much easier than having to scroll all the way down to the bottom to see if there is anything new. It's more of a convenience and probably my laziness that causes me to prefer reverse chronological order. You could always do a survey to see what people prefer.
> 2. Would being able to display graphics (and not just link to them) be important?
Definitely! I wouldn't let people upload pictures to your server though. It would end up taking a lot of space. The way I've seen most blogs work is that they allow you to do an <imr src> command to link to a picture. Otherwise, they offer a small fee to store pictures/graphics on their server. There are so many free sites to upload pictures to, there is no reason for that. But a definite must are graphical smilies. Those would be very simple to add to your blog code. I couldn't imagine writing something without being able to show graphically if I'm joking, sad, angry, etc. The typical :-) :-D ;-) :-O just aren't adequate for my type of writing. If I don't use a lot of smilies or graphics, my stuff gets misinterpreted a lot of the time. The smilies are life savers.
I still think this is a great idea. I've tried a couple of those computer journaling programs, but I'm never home to write. That's why I love blogging. I can write stuff whenever I'm near a computer. I really hope you end up doing this or something similar. If you have any other questions, just ask. I will try my best to never run out of answers or opinions. hahaha! :-)
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