Category: Best Practices

  • TopStyle Blog Information

    Not working on Windows most of the time lately, I haven’t had a chance to try TopStyle yet. I wish they’d port it to OS X! Anyway, I went from some blog to the Eatonweb portal and then through the TopStyle text ad where, after reading press-release type information about using TopStyle with Dreamweaver MX,…

  • Again, Please, In English?

    Nick Denton takes Traction to task for the buzzword bingo in their press release: Oh no, the corporate wordmanglers have got hold of blogging. “Traction is a leader in next generation Enterprise Weblog software, delivering interoperable, inexpensive, rapidly deployable, open and easy to use tools for groups and teams to communicate, share, organize and link…

  • InformationWeek Asks 'Are You Blogging Yet?'

    Thanks to Ken Dow for the link. In this article John Foley looks at blogging as a professional tool, especially from the journalist’s perspective: As a journalist with more than 15 years’ experience myself, I’m more excited by the prospect of blogging than threatened by it. So, my business is in the midst of transformation…

  • Trellix and Blogging, Part 2

    Per Scriptingnews, here’s a discussion of the integration of Blogger with Trellix, a step toward folding the blog model into more full-fledged content management system solutions.

  • plasticbag Slags and Defends Dreamweaver and Blogger

    Also from plasticbag.org, a twist on the anti-webtool attitudes you sometimes see from hardcore or longstanding hand-coders. Tom Coates makes the point that the tools used to make work easier or to enable shortcuts are not responsible for the lousy design that may result. At worst, shortcuts facilitate laziness and open the doors to more…

  • Traction Targets the Business Market

    Following my referer log to McGee’s Musings on klogs, I stumbled across yet another blog tool—Traction—this one specifically aimed at the enterprise market. I haven’t investigated the feature set and pricing yet, and I’m curious about how it might differ from ordinary blog software. I was just talking to a business client today about using…