It's still not an ad

One of those light blogging days because writing about my original plan to make a blogging tool (plus a Blogger glitch here and there) got me thinking about it again.

Part of the reason I stopped working on it was the user interface I built wasn't so great… I made it before I did any real writing in this thing and it turns out I use it slightly differently than I thought I would. And a couple of wish-list things occurred to me as well. So I've been working all day on it. I was less ambitious with the underpinnings (I had database abstraction in mind—it's not abstracted yet but I designed it so I won't have to start from scratch if I go there) and more ambitious with the UI. Once I gave up on wysiwyg it moved at a reasonable pace.

I didn't change the underlying tables, so the templating system ideas I had will still work. That leaves the FTP functionality and a little clean up of edit field labels, and I'll have something I can actually use.

My intent, if I follow through this time, is to automatically ping Weblogs.com, and possibly act as a front end for the Blogger and MetaWeblog APIs. And I just downloaded the code to implement spell checking with the editor component I've settled on.

It's been a good day.

posted by Prometheus 6 at 6/7/2003 08:56:32 PM |