Comments on: 31 Days to a Better Blog – Day 7: Plan a schedule for the week ahead http://laura.popokatea.co.uk/2007/08/07/31-days-to-a-better-blog-day-7-plan-a-schedule-for-the-week-ahead/ news, articles and ramblings on online media, design and technology for social good. Fri, 12 Feb 2010 07:11:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Tim’s Blog » Blog Archive » 31 days to a better way of working as well http://laura.popokatea.co.uk/2007/08/07/31-days-to-a-better-blog-day-7-plan-a-schedule-for-the-week-ahead/comment-page-1/#comment-1288 Tim’s Blog » Blog Archive » 31 days to a better way of working as well Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:55:39 +0000 http://laura.popokatea.co.uk/2007/08/07/31-days-to-a-better-blog-day-7-plan-a-schedule-for-the-week-ahead/#comment-1288 [...] 'technology' and 'social change'. I'm guess fellow 31-day challenger Laura might be right in forseeing categorising blog posts as a future day's task… so I think [...] [...] 'technology' and 'social change'. I'm guess fellow 31-day challenger Laura might be right in forseeing categorising blog posts as a future day's task… so I think [...]

]]> By: laura http://laura.popokatea.co.uk/2007/08/07/31-days-to-a-better-blog-day-7-plan-a-schedule-for-the-week-ahead/comment-page-1/#comment-74 laura Wed, 08 Aug 2007 13:14:59 +0000 http://laura.popokatea.co.uk/2007/08/07/31-days-to-a-better-blog-day-7-plan-a-schedule-for-the-week-ahead/#comment-74 MODx is beautiful to work with especially if you like standards, and also freedom as a designer, would highly recommend it. You've inspired me though to see Drupal work with blogs, I've not done a Drupal site for over a year (do like it, but it can be restrictive at times, but it's maturing nicely!), so may have a go on my Mamp soon! MODx is still young compared to Drupal but will be even better as it evolves further!) Thanks for the comments! Laura MODx is beautiful to work with especially if you like standards, and also freedom as a designer, would highly recommend it. You’ve inspired me though to see Drupal work with blogs, I’ve not done a Drupal site for over a year (do like it, but it can be restrictive at times, but it’s maturing nicely!), so may have a go on my Mamp soon! MODx is still young compared to Drupal but will be even better as it evolves further!)
Thanks for the comments!
Laura

]]> By: Tim Davies http://laura.popokatea.co.uk/2007/08/07/31-days-to-a-better-blog-day-7-plan-a-schedule-for-the-week-ahead/comment-page-1/#comment-72 Tim Davies Wed, 08 Aug 2007 11:45:27 +0000 http://laura.popokatea.co.uk/2007/08/07/31-days-to-a-better-blog-day-7-plan-a-schedule-for-the-week-ahead/#comment-72 Hey Laura Drupal wasn't quite as easy to get up and running blogging with as I'd imagined it would be - having developed quite a lot of sites and tools in Drupal. It should become a lot easier when the long promised Blogging <a href="http://drupal.org/project/Installation+profiles" rel="nofollow">Install Profile</a> arrives, but that still seems to be a way off. However, now that I've untangled permissions troubles - I'm really pleased with it... I like having the flexibility to add in a whole wealth of additional modules which I've got full control over (e.g. geotagging which I hope to add soon, analytics modules etc.) - and I can run it off the same code base as a whole heap of other sites so I've only got one core to keep up to date / security patched etc. I did try with a few dedicated blog tools - but I felt a bit constrained with them - and I'm hoping to be making more use of some drupal extras like <a href="http://drupal.org/project/Modules/category/89" rel="nofollow">Views</a> to make the blog more useful soon... I'll have to take a look at MODx for site management though... looks interesting.... Hey Laura

Drupal wasn’t quite as easy to get up and running blogging with as I’d imagined it would be – having developed quite a lot of sites and tools in Drupal. It should become a lot easier when the long promised Blogging Install Profile arrives, but that still seems to be a way off. However, now that I’ve untangled permissions troubles – I’m really pleased with it…

I like having the flexibility to add in a whole wealth of additional modules which I’ve got full control over (e.g. geotagging which I hope to add soon, analytics modules etc.) – and I can run it off the same code base as a whole heap of other sites so I’ve only got one core to keep up to date / security patched etc.

I did try with a few dedicated blog tools – but I felt a bit constrained with them – and I’m hoping to be making more use of some drupal extras like Views to make the blog more useful soon…

I’ll have to take a look at MODx for site management though… looks interesting….

]]> By: laura http://laura.popokatea.co.uk/2007/08/07/31-days-to-a-better-blog-day-7-plan-a-schedule-for-the-week-ahead/comment-page-1/#comment-68 laura Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:01:08 +0000 http://laura.popokatea.co.uk/2007/08/07/31-days-to-a-better-blog-day-7-plan-a-schedule-for-the-week-ahead/#comment-68 Hi Tim, thanks for the encouragement. I don't have a seperate RSS feed for my side notes, but a great idea! Will investigate further. Interested to hear how you find Drupal for blogging. I was using MODx (my fave CMS) for blogging originally, but really wanted to jump to Wordpress for speed and ease. Modx is excellent as a main site framework, and is getting there on the blogging side slowly. Wordpress attracted me with all its plug-ins at first, although niggles me lots now, as it's harder to get in and tweak the back end code unless you are really proficient with PHP to make some plug-ins work they way you want them too. Just guess I'm a control freak! MODx was great in that respect, totally adaptable to your needs. Never blogged with Drupal, just created sites instead. Wordpress is more advanced as a blog tool, and also like Textpattern lots too. Chose Wordpress over Tp, to show how easy it is to inspire others and organisations to get up and have a go! Hi Tim, thanks for the encouragement. I don’t have a seperate RSS feed for my side notes, but a great idea! Will investigate further.
Interested to hear how you find Drupal for blogging. I was using MODx (my fave CMS) for blogging originally, but really wanted to jump to Wordpress for speed and ease. Modx is excellent as a main site framework, and is getting there on the blogging side slowly. Wordpress attracted me with all its plug-ins at first, although niggles me lots now, as it’s harder to get in and tweak the back end code unless you are really proficient with PHP to make some plug-ins work they way you want them too. Just guess I’m a control freak! MODx was great in that respect, totally adaptable to your needs. Never blogged with Drupal, just created sites instead. Wordpress is more advanced as a blog tool, and also like Textpattern lots too. Chose Wordpress over Tp, to show how easy it is to inspire others and organisations to get up and have a go!

]]> By: Tim Davies http://laura.popokatea.co.uk/2007/08/07/31-days-to-a-better-blog-day-7-plan-a-schedule-for-the-week-ahead/comment-page-1/#comment-67 Tim Davies Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:52:04 +0000 http://laura.popokatea.co.uk/2007/08/07/31-days-to-a-better-blog-day-7-plan-a-schedule-for-the-week-ahead/#comment-67 And may I also comment on how utterly genius whatever little MyBlogLog plugin you have that managed to grab a profile picture automatically is. Fantastic :) And may I also comment on how utterly genius whatever little MyBlogLog plugin you have that managed to grab a profile picture automatically is.

Fantastic :)

]]> By: Tim Davies http://laura.popokatea.co.uk/2007/08/07/31-days-to-a-better-blog-day-7-plan-a-schedule-for-the-week-ahead/comment-page-1/#comment-66 Tim Davies Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:50:38 +0000 http://laura.popokatea.co.uk/2007/08/07/31-days-to-a-better-blog-day-7-plan-a-schedule-for-the-week-ahead/#comment-66 Hey Many thanks for the link :) I really like the micro-blog down the side of your site. Is there a separate RSS feed for these? I was experimenting with sharing content I found interesting via a google-reader feed javascript boxy thing - but that didn't work very well - and slowed things down a lot and I removed it. I'll have to look at using micro-blog posts like yours instead - as they look like a really good way of sharing. Tim Hey

Many thanks for the link :) I really like the micro-blog down the side of your site. Is there a separate RSS feed for these?

I was experimenting with sharing content I found interesting via a google-reader feed javascript boxy thing – but that didn’t work very well – and slowed things down a lot and I removed it.

I’ll have to look at using micro-blog posts like yours instead – as they look like a really good way of sharing.

Tim

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