Back in January I decided that most of my web sites needed a serious re-design, and I decided to start with my most heavily visited site, AnimalRights.net. In April, I contacted Yanisar Enterprises about doing such a redesign, and seven months later you can see the fruits of that collaboration here. I initially chose Yanisar…
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It seems like yesterday, but it was in fact four years ago this month that I started switching over all my web sites to use Conversant. For the first five years of maintaining my web sites I just used an FTP client and then, later, Dreamweaver, both of which were very limited. The main thing…
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Dave Winer falsely claims, It’s very gratifying to see Scott promoting Edit This Page. An important group of features that only Manila has. Super-high value for users. That’s odd, because I use a couple of content management systems, including Conversant in which every bit of text, etc., has an “Edit Me” link that opens the…
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One of the reasons I and others swear by Conversant to manage our web sites it that 90 percent of the time if I think of a really cool feature I’d like to have, I can create it myself without having to know any programming or having to hope enough other people want it to…
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Macrobyte recently added a few features to Conversant (the CMS/groupware system that drives this web site) that I had requested. The one that made the biggest difference on this site was an additional field of metadata for directories. A brief re-cap here: everything on this site is saved as an entry in a database. Various…
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Last year I wrote about ActiveWords, which is hands down one of the best Windows utilities I’ve ever used. ActiveWords makes it easy to trigger relatively complex sequences of events just by typing a keyword into any text entry box. I mostly use it to handle many of the repetitive tasks that are involved in…
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A few weeks ago, Macrobyte added a WYSIWYG textbox editor to Conversant. Works really nice, and the addition has made a lot of my users happier. I, on the other hand, really don’t like WYSIWYG boxes for routine editing, although it does come in handy in some situations. One of the nice things about Conversant…
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The last couple weeks I have been doing a lot of behind-the-scenes organizing/reorganizing of this web site. The biggest change has been with category pages. I’ve been adding different categories right and left lately, and at the moment there are almost 300 categories and subcategories to which articles can be assigned, each with its own…
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Apparently there are quite a few people like me wanting to organize isolated weblog-style posts into more meaningful collections of information. One proposed solution is to use a weblog front-end for a Wiki (with “biki” and “bliki” being the proposed terms for such said convergence). This is, of course, exactly what I’ve been working on…
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I’m still amazed some days at just how much can be accomplished in Conversant. The basic tools are provided, and you can mix and match them to do some awesome things. For example, check out my demo of a system I’ve been working on to make it easier to navigate and reference certain kinds of…