Follows a live blogging account of my first blog post with Adobe Contribute. It's not a reflective piece. Take it for what it is worth.
Well, this is a rather remarkable experience. I'm editing a blog page, with some delays. It's using the style sheets I have set up for this blog. I'm using Adobe Contribute, an application I reviewed previously under tight confidentiality. Plusses and minuses to this tool. Neat to see your stuff in the format you created, but not as integrated for things like tags. For instance, no type ahead completion for tags. It's unclear to me that what I would call a tag is actually inserted into the blog as a tag with the right kind of URL.
Further, it seems to be a bit of a resource hog. For instance, hitting return at the end of the last paragraph led to a five second delay. My browser seems slower. They want $149 for this thing. Not really sure it is worth that.
I'm going to publish. Let's see what that produces.
Update: Unbelievable. The tag at the top is a tag to a technorati tag space, not to the built-in MT (movable type, the blog software used here) tag space. Apparently, this is a settable option, but it's not clear to me that this thing is submitted as an MT tag at all.
Update 2: So, this might be useful for editing posts that are already there, but if you have a customized blog set up using MT plugins, you'll lose some functionality with this tool. That's because the MT API does not allow access to all underlying features.
Update 3: It doesn't know my time zone. It thinks I'm on West Coast time where it was built. Poor. My system clock is set properly.
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