Friday, August 26, 2005

I decided to add a WYSIWYG editor to my admin portion of the site. Apparently you can find some nice open source WYSIWYG editors nowadays. Probably FCKeditor, Xinha and TinyMCE are the most prominent ones. Some people already tried different editors with Django, e.g., Xinha — http://www.socialistsoftware.com/?p=10, TinyMCE — http://www.socialistsoftware.com/?p=8. Now it's my turn.

As you can see blog is already operational. I am planning to add to it Comments, Trackbacks, and RSS/Atom support.

Main page will be redesigned so it would include snippets from other applications and external sources. I am planning to change look and feel of this web site. Obviously what I have now is temporary.

Upcoming applications: Lunch Box 3.0, picture gallery, personal news integrator.

Everytime I need to test a text layout or text style I am typing something like "qwerty" and duplicate it many times to make a paragraph. Then paragraph got duplicated as well. But I am really bored to see qwerty and usually it doesn't simulate real text properly.

To have something more realistic I go to any news site to "borrow" some text. Unfortunately sometimes I have to hunt for suitable text because the one I found has very short or too long paragraphs.

Now it is as easy as typing lipsum in my browser and hitting Ctrl+Enter. This site generates text of user-defined length using famous "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet...". This text was used by typographers for ages to check quality of fonts.

Time and again I create 1st post just to tear the system apart and start all over again. Let's hope that this time is the last one.