Saturday, April 12, 2008
Summer plans
| Krystal Adventure has been working on a research project this past week and details should start coming out tomorrow. Before we leap into that I wanted to give a bit of public service info. Blogger (host of Krystal Adventure) is always coming up with new things and testing them out on a "Beta" site. I stroll by every so often and see what's up. Frankly I am happy with this blog as it is, so I have passed on many of the newer features. There is one new feature, though, that I have been waiting on and it has made it to Beta. Currently, when you hit "post" on a blog article it gets assigned a date and time and gets added to your blog. You have the option of putting it in "draft" where it will not be published but stay on blogger. I regularly have 2 or three posts in draft mode as I tinker with them before they go live. The problem is that you still have to manually push the publish button when you want them to go live. There have been many occasions where I knew a busy week was coming and I would be unable to get a post in, but I had plenty of time in advance to work on the blog. Rather than post 4 or 5 posts in a 2 days span, I choose to wait until I return to post. Sadly this has caused countless posts to never make it since they become "stale" before I get time to post them. Blogger is working on allowing you to schedule a post to appear at a set date/time in the future. I have every belief that feature will eventually be adopted as I have seen plenty of people begging for it. I will certainly take advantage of it as well, and the end result should be lest of the "feast or famine" posting around here. I do worry that the change will force me to upgrade to the "newer" Blogger templates (which are actually over a year old). There will certainly be benefits to upgrading, but I worry about the effect it will have on my current set up and customizations. (Links and pictures on the left, as well as the folks who get this blog via email.) I do know that in the newer templates, the archives are MUCH easier to navigate, and that's the biggest issue pushing me to upgrade. So as it stands right now, one of the many things on my summer "To Do List" is to go ahead and tinker with the template and bring KrystalAdventure up to date. Obviously, details will be forthcoming and I'll be certain to let you know what the plans are as soon as I know them. As for me and today, the Red Wings play at 2, so I plan to be glued to the sofa watching the boys in Red and White in the playoffs.  |
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