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My name is Andrew Sutton, aka Shandy.

I am currently living and working in the UK within the garment industry as an IT specialist. This blog contains mainly IT related issues.

I was a Microsoft VB MVP for a couple of years (Apr 2004-Mar 2006) and was a vbCityLeader between April 2003 and June 2007.

If you are looking for my Sri Lanka or Morocco experiences check out Shandy's Sri Lanka Blog or Shandy's Morocco Blog. My personal (Non IT) blog is now at Shandy's Place

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You have to laugh :-D Why is it that any new tool I try and use never works properly? I always seem to have to work hard to get the damn thing to bend to my will ;-) When I used wbloggar for the first time I had a couple of issues when I posted the text.

  • All the links appeared to be stripped out. It was, of course, user error of course but I claim mitigated circumstances. When you insert a link it prompts you for: the http link, the title, the text and class. I assumed that the title was the decription that would replace the actual link. It isn't; that's what the text field is for. The title is the title attribute of the tag. So I entered only http link and title information and no text so the links appeared as blanks.
  • All the line breaks were stripped out. Pressing the return key does not insert line breaks. You have to use the menu option HTML, Line Break.

Both obvious now but I have to say my knowledge of HTML is a bit rusty and logically I would list the required fields in order of importance. i.e. http link, text, title and would also expect pressing return to insert a line break for me. Maybe its just me or maybe I should really start to read the help files of applications I use or maybe I' just getting old ;-)

I'm not getting at wbloggar as its an excellent tool. This is a problem I seem to have with practically every piece of software I use. It just seems to me that software is seldom intuitive. Of course the stuff I write is 100% intuitive all the time - well to me it is anyway ;-)

posted on Sunday, August 15, 2004 12:26 PM