I've got something very exciting to tell you Blogware'ers about.
Bookmarklets.
"What is a bookmarklet?" do I hear you ask?
Well, in the Blogware context, they are little hotlinks that you can drag to your browser tool bar where they will sit until you need them.
"Why would I need them?"
Patience, dear reader.
Have you ever want to save a website address to your blogroll or list of favorites on your Blogware for all of *your* readers to see and use?
Have you even been reading a nifty article and the Register, CNN or Doc Searls weblog and think to yourself "This is bullshit, I should really post a rebuttal to my Blogware." (or int he case of Doc Searls, "this is spot on, I should post a link to my Blogware.")
Well, bookmarklets make it easy to accomplish both of these tasks. We've created two for you to use - one that adds the link of the current website to any blogroll or favorites list that you select and the other that pulls up a window that allows you to post a link to the page that you are currently browsing along with your editorial directly to your blog.
Using them is simple. PV4 users can simply log in to their Blogware administration control panel, and select the "Bookmarklets" sub-tab from the main window. Once the new page has loaded, you should be looking at a control panel page that includes two links; one labelled "Post to 'name of your blog'" and the other "Add Favorite". To add them to your browser, simply click on the link you wish to add and instead of releasing your mouse button, hold it down and "drag" the link to the "Links" menu in Internet Explorer and release the mouse button. If it works, a security warning should pop up and let you know that this may not be a safe link to add (you can ignore this, it is perfectly safe ;). Once you select "Okay" to ignore the security warning, you should have a link in your Links menu that says "Post to 'name of your blog'" or, if you selected the other link , one that says "Add Favorites".
You can experiment with both of these buttons once you've installed them - they work exactly like the functions found elsewhere in Blogware - think of them as "Blogware to go" and you'll be just fine.
One last note: this is very fresh code. I've noticed a few minor bugs already - like the HTML editor doesn't work as designed with the "Post" bookmarketl. No worry, we're on the case and should have this ironed out reallllll quick.
Leave your comments or drop me a note if you have any questions.
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Ross
at 08:23AM (EDT) on July 30, 2003 | Permanent Link
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Re: Bookmarklets
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Bret Fausett
on Wed 30 Jul 2003 11:58 AM EDT | Profile | Permanent Link
Wow. Just added Joho to my blogroll with the new tool. Absolutely awesome.
-- Bret
Re: Bookmarklets
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joe
on Wed 30 Jul 2003 12:33 PM EDT | Profile | Permanent Link
Very Cool! A couple of suggestions:
On Firebird, the popup pops underneath the current page, I think it would be better to stay above it.
The post-article popup window size is smaller than the content. It should be made larger to get rid of the scrollbars.
It would be nice if the post article popup had the menubar at top for managing categories, etc...
The category I choose in the post article window should be
"remembered" (or at least an option to remember it). The reason is that I think this tool will be vey useful when you go out on a foraging "mission" for some specific topic.
The "add favorite" popup should allow you to create a new blogroll.
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