Testing a way to blog on 23
I'm trying to see if I could actually use the existing 23 format to blog. The thought is to post a "blog" photo, like this one, to the account and use the description text to contain the text of the blog. It appears as though the photo description is pretty much unlimited, in length. I suppose, for search purposes, I would need to be thorough with my "tags", in order for the blog entry to be "searchable". To keep the blog photos separated from the regular photos, I could put them into a blog album, easily keeping them in one place. Now, if I wanted to add a photo to this blog entry, could I do it in the description field here?
It looks as though it is possible to post photos into the description field. Also, some basic HTML can be used, along with photo embedding techniques. Although this is not the ideal solution, as these blog photos would clutter the Latest Activity section somewhat, it is at least something that I could do until 23 re-activates (or redesigns) the Stories module. -David. |
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Anyway.... Nice work =)
From what I can tell, "simple" HTML seems to work. For example, to put in the photo, I did this (less the spaces after the < and before the > ):
< img src="http://url.to.photo" >
To make a link to an external URL, you can do this:
< a href="http://url.of.the.link" >
And these, as well:
< b > text < /b > to Bold text.
< i > text < /i> to Italicise text.
Anyway.... It's a worthy experiment! And if you can make it work for you, I can see it being a decent alternative to blogging sites or the articles feature at ipernity. Personally, I think a blogging site is more conducive to that than anything available on 23HQ at the moment.