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~terry Thu, Apr 17, 2003 (15:28) seed
http://bloki.com From their web page: What is Bloki? Bloki is a Web site on which you can create Web pages, right in your browser, with no additional software required. Think of it as a word processor for the Web. All of the pages on bloki.com, including this one, were built with Bloki. You can share your Bloki pages with anyone you co-workers, friends, family, the whole or keep them private for your own personal use. Authorize other users to edit your pages, and Bloki becomes a tool for communication and collaboration. What is it good for? With Bloki, you can collaborate on shared documents. Write a document and have others mark it up with their comments, or collaborate with others on the same document. You control who sees what and who gets to change your pages. You and people in your group can annotate Web pages with pop-up notes. To the outside world the notes are invisible; only people in your "view Notes" group can see, add, and update the notes. You can use Bloki as a Web authoring tool. It's a simple way to create Web pages on the fly without having to learn about uploads, FTP, WebDav, etc. Signing up and logging in Go to the signup page and sign up for a free account. Signing up provides you with (1) your own Bloki home page at yourname.bloki.com and (2) a login you can use to access restricted Bloki pages. For example, if you sign up as johndoe, your Bloki home page will be johndoe.bloki.com. If your coworker signs up as janeroe, she can give you access to janeroe.bloki.com by adding johndoe to a list of authorized users. Requirements There are no plugins to download and install. The WYSIWYG editor requries one of the following browsers: Internet Explorer 5.5 or later (available for Windows only) Mozilla 1.3 or later (any platform) Other browsers work, but you'd have to code your HTML manually. (We don't have anything against other browsers, they just don't include the technologies the WYSIWYG editor is built on.) Features User-friendly editor: works much like Microsoft Word and other popular editors as regards formating, table insertion, and other features. The editor is a modified version of htmlarea from the kind folks at interactivetools.com. Browser-based: no plug-ins required. Pages: create from scratch (blank page) upload from your computer (for example, a Word document saved as HTML) import from a Web site Locks: while one person is editing a page, it is locked, ensuring that other people can't make changes that would be overwriten. Notes: add pop-up notes to hold comments that aren't part of the actual page. Only people in your "view notes" group can see them; to others, they are invisible. Images: add from Web sites, your hard disk, or from a pool of images previously uploaded to Bloki. Access control: control who can see, edit, and administer your pages. Set a page public and anyone can view it, even people who don't have Bloki accounts. Set a page private and it's viewable only by those people you've added to your "read" list. Version history: when you save a Bloki page after revising it, the previous version is preserved in the version history, and may be retrieved at any time. The history also serves as a record of who made which changes when. Layouts: predefined templates that give your Bloki pages a consistent look and additional navigation tools.
~stacey Wed, Apr 23, 2003 (22:28) #1
neat. Have you tried it yet Paul?
~terry Wed, Apr 23, 2003 (22:53) #2
Yeah, I set up some experimental sites, one is at http://terry.bloki.com
~stacey Wed, Apr 23, 2003 (23:21) #3
Very nice! Did you format yourself or are you required to use a template? I just signed up and will play when I get confirmation! BTW, I really like the abalone interface. But how come I can't access inner from there?
~terry Fri, Apr 25, 2003 (10:20) #4
I'm not sure, I'll look in to that. I'll ask Jan.
~admin Thu, Feb 12, 2004 (14:43) #5
Have you played, Stace?
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