Why does K2 come with the post content justified by default?
It looks crappy.
Though I guess if you want a sidebar on the right, having justified text is nice since you get a clean, uniform break between text and sidebar (rather than the jagged space created by left-justification). But I’d say it’s not worth the resulting mutilation of post content (that is, when justification is used). So I might try switching the sidebar over to the left side if I can find some time to play with it.
Justified text
Justified text is set flush with the left and right margins. Page layout programs use a hyphenation dictionary to check for and apply hyphenation at each line’s end and then adjust word spacing throughout the line. But even with sophisticated page layout software, justified text blocks often suffer from poor spacing and excessive hyphenation and require manual refinement. This level of control is not even a remote possibility on Web pages. The most recent browser versions (and CSS) support justified text, but it is achieved by crude adjustments to word spacing. Also, Web browsers are unlikely to offer automatic hyphenation any time soon, another “must” for properly justified text. For the foreseeable future, the legibility of your Web documents will suffer if you set your text in justified format.
[From TYPOGRAPHY: Alignment @ Web Style Guide 2.0]
Yes, YOU get to vote for your favorite blogs!
The Reader’s Choice portion of our 2007 Performancing Awards are now officially open for voting.
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This is exactly what I’ve been worrying about for ages! I tend to wayy overcategorize (i have like 80 categories); and the difference between tags and categories was totally lost on me. Lorelle does a great job dissecting and differentiating between the two, and addresses some problems that go along with each system.
read more | digg story
Also see Categories versus tags, what’s the difference and which one to use?
After 10 Years of Blogs, the Future’s Brighter Than Ever:
In the 10 years since the first site known as a “weblog” went online, the blog has matured from a geek niche to the internet’s dominant publishing paradigm.
Blogs have come a long way since Dec. 17, 1997, when Jorn Barger coined the term “weblog” to describe the list of links on his Robot Wisdom website that “logged” his internet wanderings. In the decade hence, blogs have come to dominate the net, from 100 million personal diaries to the breaking news sections of the august The New York Times.
“It’s the easiest, cheapest, fastest publishing tool ever invented,” said Jeff Jarvis, news blogger, media pundit and director of the interactive journalism program at the City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism. “The people have a voice they didn’t have before.”
Ok. So I just sorta had a revelation… I realized that I should run multiple blogs on different subjects, rather than one blog that spastically tries to cover all my bases without becoming so unfocused that it loses its purpose… or whatever. I guess it would be the ideal amalgam of random crap for ME, but it’s prolly easier for others if they can just check the different blogs for differing coherent lines of thought/musing/investigation. Plus it’ll probably foster better blogging on my part. Now to put one more thing on my todo list… Look at multiple blogs in a wordpress environment or something.
ALSO! I’m still looking for a simple way to enable auto-linking of URL’s in blog posts. ie. http://www.google.com automatically becomes http://www.google.com. I’ve been completely dumbfounded at how difficult it is to find ANYTHING helpful on this around the web. My next step was either to a) post on some forum (WHICH forum?) b) Look at some of the php for the more complex linking plugins and hack something together that works (and release it as a plugin? ooooh…)
So yeah…. back to “homework”
p.s. Some cool geography/GIS/cartography blogs:
An old favorite of mine: Cartography: The Canadian Cartographic Association Weblog
Some new ones:
The Map Room: Blogs. Also, The Map Room itself is a blog about maps (duh).
Spatially Adjusted
The Center for Geographic Analysis’ list of GIS blogs
[damn CSS templates]
Upgrade successful! I am now running WordPress 2.0.4… (Still on b2l… hehe)
Word. This is awesome. And they even have a mac version…
(I wonder if I could turn off this thing at the bottom though… (not that I’d want to))
(ooh they use CSS for the formatting…)
my previous post on 3rd party blogging clients in which I recommended MTClient, which is now easily superseded by the effortlessness of Qumana…
AND it even links the posts to their archive (permalinked) pages!!!
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[edit: you can turn off the Qumana credit-thing… // The paragraph formatting is making things look weird on here… though that is configurable. Part is perhaps due to the textile plugin I’ve got on here, which I can’t decide whether to disable or what. Since I never actually use the textile syntax. Then there’s Markdown by Dean Allen. Meh. I wish I could specify on a post-by-post basis (and this was accessible via my blogging clients–or at least wordpress was smart enough to decide whether to use the syntax based on where the post was coming from) like the “auto line-break” feature is in movable type. [(I’ll link everything up later…)]
edit: OK. Well, it was a nice try at least. I have now given up Qumana until they release a decently abled version. WYSIWYG was nice, except when it didn’t WORK. (You can’t select anything unless you’re in source mode… among other things. Gets frustrating quite quickly.)
Word. This is awesome. And they even have a mac version…
(I wonder if I could turn off this thing at the bottom though… (not that I’d want to))
(ooh they use CSS for the formatting…)
my previous post on 3rd party blogging clients in which I recommended MTClient, which is now easily superseded by the effortlessness of Qumana…
AND it even links the posts to their archive (permalinked) pages!!!
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