CityDesk NewsNews about CityDesk, Fog Creek Software's Desktop Content Management System(Untitled)- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Patrick Thomas of Telepark, a CityDesk VAR in Germany, has released a free utility that sends email notifications to subscribers when a CityDesk site changes.http://www.fogcreek.com/CityDesk/news/entries/2002/August/15.html (Untitled)- (Found July 8, 2008 ) CityDesk Service Pack 2 is here! The Fog Creek team fixed some minor, yet potentially painful, bugs in SP2. Upgrading is free. What's New In Service Pack 2 For download instructions and to check what version you have, run CityDesk and choose Help >> Check For Updates.http://www.fogcreek.com/CityDesk/news/entries/2002/August/8.html (Untitled)- (Found July 8, 2008 ) The New York Times recommends CityDesk, among other blogging tools.http://www.fogcreek.com/CityDesk/news/entries/2002/July/25.html (Untitled)- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Darren Collins has an excellent description of how to use the full-powered article editor to edit snippets that you use everywhere like variables: "I hit upon the idea of putting my content fragments into dummy articles. This would give me the ability to edit them in both HTML View and Normal View, and I could include them in other pages with a snippet of CityScript..."http://www.fogcreek.com/CityDesk/news/entries/2002/July/4.html (Untitled)- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Famous blogger Steven den Beste writes: "I have never entered and then lost a post, and I've posted upwards of 600 entries since I started using CityDesk last December....I have never used a commercial package more reliable than CityDesk."http://www.fogcreek.com/CityDesk/news/entries/2002/June/10.html (Untitled)- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Usability Jakob Nielsen welcomes CityDesk: "As I have said many times, Much of the true value of the Web comes from targeted, specialized sites. Small sites can't afford monster CMS products, so a good low-end system is highly welcome."http://www.fogcreek.com/CityDesk/news/entries/2002/April/2.html (Untitled)- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Did you ever wonder how we created the CityDesk help system Of course, we used CityDesk itself! A single CityDesk file creates three versions of the help system: Online Help for the Windows HTML Help Viewer. (Actually CityDesk produces all the input files for Microsoft's HTML Help Compiler) An HTML version that lives on our web page A Microsoft Word version of the tutorial (using Word's HTML file format option) which we use as input to Adobe Acrobat to produce a printable CityDesk...http://www.fogcreek.com/CityDesk/news/entries/2002/August/22.html (Untitled)- (Found July 8, 2008 ) CycleTraders: &8220;CycleTraders is a cooperative network of users that gather critical information about the status of each other's website. By running the client on your machine, you donate some of your computing time to measure the response time of other user's web pages. In return, your site is also timed by all the other users on the network, from a variety of locations and connections. This data can be analyzed to gauge response time from different geographical locations, at different...http://www.fogcreek.com/CityDesk/news/entries/2002/August/23.html (Untitled)- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Bill Dawson has a collection of great CityDesk utilities and an API for reading CityDesk files. Check out bdCityDeskFloat, a floating window which shows you a CityDesk site and some of the attributes of each file in a convenient split-screen format. Here's what it looks like on last Friday's sample weblog (click for a full-sized image):http://www.fogcreek.com/CityDesk/news/entries/2002/September/18.html (Untitled)- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Fog Creek has a new template for weblogs. Just hit preview once you've downloaded it and opened it in CityDesk. You'll find all the color settings are stored as variables which you can change at will. It also includes an automatically generated navigation bar and blogroll.http://www.fogcreek.com/CityDesk/news/entries/2002/September/13.html |