Radio UserLand X - 8.1

explains a whole mess of stuff. I couldn't work out why it kept wanting to go out on the internet, when I just wanted to post stuff to my own (local) server. Why would I want Userland to host my blog? It's not like Blogger who are a company specially dedicated to the practice - Userland is just a software company. And if it is hosted by them, why does it have its own built-in web server (on port 5335)? Just to configure it? That seems extremely dumb to me. They've gone to the trouble to build a web server into it - ferchrustsake, run it off there, or run it off the proper built-in Mac OS X web server (ie: apache). Mac users are known for not bothering to read the doco, but when you claim something is easy to use, you better make sure it is or at least back up the claim with reasonable doco. When I couldn't figure it out just by fiddling, I specifically tried to use the doco and got nowhere. Obviously they're not interested in having me as a customer.

Radio for a few iterations. While the online documentation is more for humor than in-depth help, the online usergroup assistance came to my aid with the minor hicccups that I had. Had no problem putting up a blog, first on the Userland server, then switching over to one of my own servers. Obviously, some people don't bother seeing how easy that is to do. And you need to understand that Radio runs locally on your machine, and when you make changes it uploads to your server. So when you start the app it should load the local host into your browser. Helps to have two browser windows open....your local host and the website. While I have some issues with the flexibility of the styles (helps to know some xml and html), if you just want to publish easily from one machine it's worth the price. I've tried to use some other blog tools but found this to be the one that I liked the most.