CityDesk NewsNews about CityDesk, Fog Creek Software's Desktop Content Management System(Untitled)- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Ole Eichorn went against the conventional wisdom, and developed his new personal site using frames (and CityDesk, of course!) &8220;Now, there are some drawbacks to using frames, but they can all be dealt with. And this site deals with them,&8221; he writes, and explains how you can deal with them, too.http://www.fogcreek.com/CityDesk/news/entries/2003/January/13.html (Untitled)- (Found July 8, 2008 ) If you want to reorder a folder or article in the CityDesk window, but dragging it results in the item falling into a folder, try the Ctrl+U (up) and Ctrl+D (down) keyboard shortcuts. These move an item up or down one step in the current level.http://www.fogcreek.com/CityDesk/news/entries/2002/October/17.html (Untitled)- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Search engine expert Danny Sullivan: &8220;The value of adding meta keywords tags to pages seems little worth the time. In my opinion, the meta keywords tag is dead, dead, dead... I say good riddance!&8221; Carefully crafted titles are far more useful in getting good search engine placement. In CityDesk, if you have a variable named siteName, you can put it in the title of every page by putting <title>$.siteName$<title> in your template. You can add the headline too, for...http://www.fogcreek.com/CityDesk/news/entries/2002/October/15.html (Untitled)- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Vin Crosbie: &8220;For a report I did recently, I spent six weeks talking to managing directors, marketing directors, and managing editors of many major online publications that, for an appreciable amount of time, have charged subscribers for access. Each is a major brand with marketing and promotional muscle. Hardly any of these executives are willing to talk for the record, but all were rather candid about how they have induced only between 0.25 and 1.25 percent of their unique users to pay...http://www.fogcreek.com/CityDesk/news/entries/2002/October/11.html (Untitled)- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Ah! Danny Goodman has released the new version of Dynamic HTML. It's been a few years since the first edition, which is still the best reference on HTML despite being severely out of date. The new edition is 1400 packed pages that actually tells you what web browsers that are actually in use actually do, which makes it invaluable. It has been brought up to date with all the latest browsers and the newest HTML specs. If you're working with HTML in any way, shape, or form, this book is an...http://www.fogcreek.com/CityDesk/news/entries/2002/October/10.html (Untitled)- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Amos has posted a great tutorial on creating CityDesk sites.http://www.fogcreek.com/CityDesk/news/entries/2002/October/9.html (Untitled)- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Mark Newhouse: &8220;In this article, I&8217;ll demonstrate how to use CSS to bring unwieldy lists under control. It&8217;s time for you to tell lists how to behave, instead of letting them run wild on your web page.&8221;http://www.fogcreek.com/CityDesk/news/entries/2002/October/8.html (Untitled)- (Found July 8, 2008 ) DesignMeme: &8220;Do you create a daily online comic, or post any other type of daily image file that you'd like to share with others If you do, and you&8217;d like people to be able to include your content on their webpages, the following script will help you get started.&8221; This is a great technique for including any content from one web site in another website.http://www.fogcreek.com/CityDesk/news/entries/2002/October/7.html (Untitled)- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Nick Finck: &8220;There is an unspoken rule in print which states that text should not exceed four inches in width on a page. Any text less than four inches is more readable than any text over four inches &8212; the reader's whiplash will speak for itself.&8221;http://www.fogcreek.com/CityDesk/news/entries/2002/October/4.html (Untitled)- (Found July 8, 2008 ) When you're creating a CityDesk site to give to end-users, it often helps to provide some simple, written step-by-step instructions on how to do common tasks for that site. The CityDesk documentation will tell anyone how to create an article, but when you've made a Real Estate listing site for Marge the Realtor, Marge is going to need to know how to add a new listing: what folder to put it in, what values to put in what fields, etc. Terry Kearns has created an excellent example of this...http://www.fogcreek.com/CityDesk/news/entries/2002/October/3.html |