Of course I went and played with MSN Spaces for testing
Tags :Technical
Since I am coming up on two years of blogging
soon, I like to goof around with new design ideas (as many of you have
seen the site deign change over time). But I don't mind trying out
other blog templates or software just to see what I can integrate into
mine. With all the talk on Ed's blog about Microsoft and their numbers
being published around Microsoft Spaces, I went to see what all the hoopla
is about.
Creating the blog was just as easy as any
other site. Log in with your Passport of choice and choose a URL
(of course my title was "IdoNotes more than Exchange".
Not bad. You can then fly right into the blog itself or choose
a color/theme for the blog. No big deal, reminds me greatly of Quickplace
to be honest. Little snippets of the corner and color/theme and a
checkbox you select before clicking Save.
Inside the blog the first thing I noticed
was the 'admin' homepage. It showed recent comments and even trackbacks.
I liked that. What did catch my eye was the link on the left
to add music lists. Some of you know I am a music fiend. The
little hook they put in was it would read your playlists from Windows Media
Player.
The do allow HTML as any web blog should
do, but it is mentioned that some HTML may be removed for formatting and
security. I find this to be along the lines of they won't let you
run any funny little scripts. You can make book lists, blog lists
or custom lists that get placed along the sides. There are some
pre-built categories for sorting the blog entries you make and you can
provide your own as you go.
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On Monday, January 17th, 2005 by Chris Miller
