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Announce: Woolgather weblogging tool
David Ascher
2002-01-30
> * There's no HTML form-based UI for logging in, managing permissions,
>   or adding/editing posts.

Try to borrow from what Userland did with Radio, or, if that's not
possible, what Blogger does.  Both are highly usable. Radio's UI is
amazing in IE at least.

> * There's no support for changing the appearance of the generated HTML
>   through templating or some other mechanism, so it'll look pretty plain.

As much as I hate it, history has shown that skin customization is the
key to mass acceptance =).

> * There's no configuration file, so there's no easy way to customize where
>   the data is stored.  Right now, the data is always stored in
>   /tmp/woolgather.fs.

Sounds easy to fix =)

> My plans for 0.0.2 are to test that the Blogger API is implemented
> correctly, and add a configuration file of some sort, while waiting
> for inspiration to strike regarding a Web UI.

I'll try it tonight.  You know about the Python Blogger clientside API
modules, right?

--david


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