If you write for any online presence – particularly blogs – and you are not a dedicated HTML junkie but still long to have more formatting control over your posts, Markdown written by John Gruber of Daring Fireball fame, may be the tool for you. Markdown is a recognized framework of web formatting tags that gives you control over things such as:
Squarespace offers it site owners another great option for posting content into their websites – Email posting. Through the tools in Squarespace, you can setup a special email address that allows you to write a post in your email and then send it. From there it will be posted as a journal entry (read:blog post). You can title your post using the Subject field and you can attach an image for it to be included in the post.
Quawkle.com is currently in a transition between the current site and a makeover involving either a switch to WordPress using the Genesis or Thesis, or a complete move to Squarespace.
Rather than continue with some of the many other observations I have made so far with Squarespace, I will save some of those thoughts for another post or two.
I just downloaded and installed a new blog editor called Blogo by Brainjuice. Typically I create my posts either from MarsEdit or ScribeFire or from my WordPress Admin site. I am curious to try out Blogo and see how well it works.
I added a new Favicon to the blog. For the uninitiated (that’s the normal person in life), a favicon is a little icon that shows up to the right of the URL address in a browser for a particular website. My favicon is based on a vanity caricature I had done of myself several years ago. → Read the rest