support

Posted on: May 10, 2006

Some have asked why I continue to stay with Blog-City.com as my favored blogging solution. Well, I had a brief dalliance with WordPress but found some limitations—like lack of a more fluid WYSIWYG editor at the time—to be maddening, and I flirt with Blogger on occasion, e.g. the SLOG, but I found its featureset to be too simple and too complex for me at the same time. Normally, this would be a contradiction I'd embrace, but I'm rather abnormal.

A prime reason is because of support. The first time I heard of Blog-City, I perceived them as some kinda Scottish castle rising out of the mist—which is where I think they're actually based, altho I've never confirmed to be quite sure. It may ruin the mystique, too. ;) But really, as tiny as the form on their contact page is, the people behind B-C have got big hearts.

Over the last couple of years since my first entries, I've sent some really lateral questions their way, and got the best of answers back. Not easy "We'll do your homework" responses, but ones which got me on the right path to experiment and learn further. When this blog first began, it had more of a primary-color feel.

It's since evolved a lot to watermelons! Chunks and pieces were tweaked along the way. Just some minutes ago, I customized it so if you make your browser window's width superwide, my blog will still retain its size in the middle—exactly 1000 px thick. Bordered by cotton candy.

'Twas Erind of Blog-City who helped me figure out what to do. It's been mostly he, or the Governess and Mayoress of Blog-City (lurve those honorifics) who've time and time again assisted me in times of need. Along the way, I learned a leetle CSS.

So again, I give thanx. And being on the receiving end of support, I know how important it is in my thusly-named "day job" to be passionate about helping others. Extensively, if I can't do it personally, to guide the way to someone who can. Just like my Jadey has always taught me… she uses Wordpress. :)

I continue to hope Blog-City will have a way to show complete views of archived months. Currently, it only does summaries, but give this unto me and I will be even more happier than I am now. The other major bone I have to pick is with FckEditor, which is vertically unresizeable. A waste of my big monitor. I want to migrate to another solution and copy-and-paste back in.

The day this comes true, I shall blog about it too.

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