Bunny’s Test Blog

I tested thirteen blog platforms. Here is the write-up of my adventure.

Right, I’ve uploaded another photo. It’s not difficult for me because I’m a bit geeky (oh, minor bug: I got a backslash before the apostrophe in the code I was given to copy-paste after uploading).

But if I compare the way Blogsome (and Wordpress in general) deals with adding photos to posts, I think it can be improved. For example, there could be an optional “add photo” field in the “Write” admin pane, with a “float left / float right” option. That would take care of some basic needs for lambda users.

Any thoughts on that, anyone?

I got tired of Lilies. It’s beautiful, but a bit heavy graphically. I changed the theme to something a tad more sober.

It takes some time (like… more than 10 minutes?) to change though — not very good for people who want to try out different themes to see what suits them. It also gives the impression that the theme chooser doesn’t work.

Uploading the photo wasn’t a big deal, apart from the fact that there is still an encoding issue somewhere. The code I was given to display the photo was the following:

<img src="http://bunny.blogsome.com/uploads/
bunny/20030204lacpully-ouchy3.jpg” alt=”Lake Léman under rough weather.” />

You may or may not note that my beautiful Léman was mangled in the process.

Well, here is the photo:

Compared to how things happen on skyblog, I see a possible improvement. Instead of being just given a page with the HTML code to copy and paste, why wouldn’t I be directed straight to post.php, with the HTML code for the photograph already in the post editing area?

One step less, might be appreciated by newbies.

I tried changing themes and it just resulted in breaking the layout. If it looks all nasty, it’s normal. It won’t last forever.

Histoire de voir, on va tenter le coup en français. Le contenu de la base de données est-il effectivement en utf-8, quel que soit l’encodage du blog lui-même?

I tried changing the theme for my weblog, but it just succeeded in breaking the current layout. Anybody else had this kind of problem?

Oh, and another point. That backslash in my title is evil. I’m sure I can remove it manually, but it definitely doesn’t look good for the new fresh clean user when something like that happens. What version of WordPress is this running on, by the way?

Now, imagine I want to install the Spam Karma plugin, how would I do that? Could there be a way of requesting additional plugins to be made available?

Well, this looks very nice! I’d dream of having something similar for my school blogs.

Are the Blogsome people going to release the code used? And more importantly, how will this scale? I’m having major scalability issues with my school blogs, so I’m very curious about how things will go here. Maybe they’re just on an over-powerful server.