210785 Resource 76096 1 21 1218381771411 1229120220179 Controlled Consider Google Docs as an Authoring Platform

This is an approach that allows you to manage your authored content in the cloud with Google Docs.

There are many reasons you might want to consider authoring your blogsite content in <a title="Google Docs" href="http://docs.google.com" target="_blank">Google Docs</a>; here are just a few. <ul> <li>It's a great place to write content, perform spell checks, and collaborate on new posts with your team.</li> <li>The formatting capabilities and user interface is similar to Microsoft Word, so you can enjoy the benefits of an application you may already be familiar with.</li> <li>Google Docs provides a place where you can keep archives of everything you write.</li> <li>Google Docs provides a word count feature.</li> </ul> <a href="http://docs.google.com/">Google Docs</a> is free - you can setup an account in minutes and begin writing immediately. You can also copy and paste from Google Docs directly to your Blogsite editor window without fear of dragging along any strange formatting classes and styles from desktop applications such as Microsoft Word.Benefits for FireFox Users As you may know, editing blog posts with FireFox on the Mac or PC's causes paragraph breaks to to be generated as two line breaks. In contrast, Internet Explorer automatically generates the more common paragraph format using the HTML paragraph tag (). If you want to create your blogsite content with FireFox and with paragraph tags, Google Docs makes it much easier. Google Docs allows you to enforce document creation standards in HTML with paragraph tags. As a result, your text can be generated as normal [HTML] paragraphs and with other standard HTML tags (see Format | Normal Paragraphs setting in the Google Docs menu). Before you copy and paste the final content into the Blogsite editor, simply set the highlighted selected to Normal Paragraphs; the copied text will contain proper paragraph tags. And this formatting will be preserved if you edit a post created through this process in the future. This approach allows you to mimic the same HTML paragraph generation process that occurs when authoring new content with Internet Explorer and provides a far better experience for your visitors and content that's easier to maintain. 10 application/xml false authoring template cloud computing Google Docs Instructions: <ol> <li>Login to your Google Docs account</li> <li>Select the Upload option on the main menu</li> <li>Copy <a href="http://blogsite.com/docs/MyST%20Blogsite%20Template%20for%20Google%20Docs.html">this URL</a> into the URL field in the Google Docs Upload dialog</li> <li>Name the document "MyST Blogsite Template"</li> <li>Click the "Upload File" button. </li> </ol> MySmartChannels/5 (mailto:info@myst-technology.com; MyST Blogsite MetaWeblog API 5.00.1210) 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 aseidl 205.145.142.200 false true false false true 174050 false false true false false false true 76096 blog blogsite/Blogsite/web