Bye-bye RapidWeaver, Welcome Tumblr
23 Feb 2010 06:55 PM / Filed in: Misc
My blog adventures started in 2005 when I opened a blog at Blogger. After some time and the nice feel I got for RapidWeaver, my site publishing tool, I decided to host my blog on a dedicated server. This experience held up for more than four years. I recently realized that one of the reasons why I didn't post more often is the rather cumbersome workflow of RapidWeaver when it comes to blog publishing. Every time I had to post a new entry, I needed to launch the software if it was not already opened, create the blog entry, save my changes, publish them to my website and this will take quite some time as RapidWeaver will push the whole blog, archive & al!
So I decided to move on and stop using RapidWeaver for maintaining my blog (but I still use it to maintain this website). Besides sparing some CPU cycles in the process and saving some network bandwidth, I was looking for something to which I can post easily from my web browser, my email client and, why not, from my phone while on the road.
After testing posterous.com and tumblr.com I went for the latter as it offers more customization and flexibility, has a pretty-straightforward interface that I like and allows one to use Markdown for posting, besides the wealth of themes.
So time to update those links! Please update your bookmarks to point out to:
This blog won't be removed for the time being. I also took the opportunity to update the website design to make it more straight-forward. I hope you'll like it.
Cheers!
So I decided to move on and stop using RapidWeaver for maintaining my blog (but I still use it to maintain this website). Besides sparing some CPU cycles in the process and saving some network bandwidth, I was looking for something to which I can post easily from my web browser, my email client and, why not, from my phone while on the road.
After testing posterous.com and tumblr.com I went for the latter as it offers more customization and flexibility, has a pretty-straightforward interface that I like and allows one to use Markdown for posting, besides the wealth of themes.
So time to update those links! Please update your bookmarks to point out to:
- For English-only posts: blog.upbeat.fr (which you can access right from the toolbar) and the RSS feed is at blog.upbeat.fr/rss.
- For French-only posts: journal.upbeat.fr which you can access right from the toolbar) and the RSS feed is at journal.upbeat.fr/rss.
This blog won't be removed for the time being. I also took the opportunity to update the website design to make it more straight-forward. I hope you'll like it.
Cheers!