October 2004 Entries

It starts off (defaults) using something like the following (newlines added for readability):

<html>
<head><link rel='stylesheet' href='style.css'></link>
</head>
<body>
<div id='main'><div class='post'>
<h2><a href='[Post Url]'>[Post Title]</a></h2>
[Post Body]
</div></div>
</body>
</html>

Basically, I just go to the actual blog (using the 'view blog' button) and view source. The one here is currently using something that I hacked together pretty quickly from a layout that I, ahem, 'borrowed' from Thomas Johansen. It looks like so (again, newlines added):

<HTML>
<HEAD> 
<link type='text/css' rel='stylesheet' href='http://www.chrisfrazier.net/blog/skins/nGalleryBlue/style.css'></link>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://www.chrisfrazier.net/blog/customcss.aspx" type="text/css" ></HEAD>
<BODY>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mainTable">
<tr><td class='contentCell'>
<div id='main'> 
<div class='post'>
<div class='news'>
<div class='posttitle'>
<a href='[Post Url]'>[Post Title]</a>
</div>
<div class='postcontent'>[Post Body]</div>
</div></div></div>
</td></tr></table>
</BODY>
</HTML>

This changes the both the Preview Page and the History Explorer from looking like this: 

to looking like this:

[ Currently Playing : Myxomatosis. (Judge, Jury & Ex - Radiohead - Hail To The Thief (3:52) ]

I finally released my little home-hacked tool to the wild, Thanks to Darren and his awesome Project Distributor.

PostXING was originally just something that I wanted to use to see what I could successfully do in the world of WindowsForms. I never intended to release it forreal because who needs another desktop blog editor, right? Well, I've been successfully using it for months now, so I figured, why not share the love?

A lot of people helped me along the way, and they're indicated in the about dialog. Big shout out goes to ScottWater for showing the way initially - a lot of the codebase was inspired by a similar tool that he wrote. Another shout out to Wes Haggard for helping me get the latest feature in - I extended his idea a little bit as I tend to do.

So if you still don't have a WYSIWYG desktop blog publishing tool, and you have .NET 1.1 on your machine, or you wanna just check it out - find it here.

It has a white matte.

posted @ Friday, October 22, 2004 2:38 PM | Feedback (4) | Filed Under [ .NET ]

whut?