{"id":1603,"date":"2001-12-05T10:01:29","date_gmt":"2001-12-05T15:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=1603"},"modified":"2001-12-05T10:01:29","modified_gmt":"2001-12-05T15:01:29","slug":"next_please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/12\/05\/next_please.html","title":{"rendered":"Next, please?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Downloaded the CityDesk Starter Edition<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Pros<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n

  • Simple installation.\n
  • For folks who want to start using it out-of-the-box, it’s ready to rock.\n
  • A decent amount of customizability.\n
  • Extensibility with other web features, and highly templated.\n
  • The basic advantages of being able to compose off-line.\n
  • All those abilities mentioned to do multiple versions, easily change lay-out, and easily handle basic newsletter publishing? Yup.<\/p>\n

    Cons<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

  • No apparent archiving feature. Nobody has complained about this yet, but nobody’s sample pages have gone beyond a month yet, either.\n
  • No article numbering scheme to allow automatic templated links back to archives (see above).\n
  • The system is designed around a “headline page”\/”article pages” model, which is in keeping with its purpose as a newsletter publishing package. While there are examples given of folks using it as a blogging tool, there are normal bits of that which are missing (most of what I’ve listed here in cons).\n
  • Inconsistent allowance of HTML codes. For example, there’s no way to italicize part of a headline. \n
  • The starter package is limited to 50 “pages.” Digging into things a bit, it sounds like a “page” constitutes an article. An article could be a single item (as in this article on CityDesk), or it could be an entire day (what they recommend — but that then loses a lot of the fun automated features of CityDesk). In either case, the “free” version of this package is very limited.<\/p>\n

    There are ways to get around some of the above problems, no doubt. But they all will require a lot of customization — which you aren’t really supposed to need to do with this package, though they give you the tools to do it.<\/p>\n

    Result? While I might recommend it for our church, to keep the weekly bulletins and the online versions of same in sync, I can’t recommend it to bloggers. Yet. Wait for some people to tackle the above problems. Give it six months, and then check back again.<\/p>\n

    So where does that leave me?<\/p>\n

    Hmmmmm. Maybe trying Movable Type again …?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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