I have figured out that I like blogging while looking at the source website. It makes for easier link insertion, content recollection, and other sundries that just have made my life easier. I noticed David is using Deepest Sender, but I didn’t find it as easy to use as Performancing.
My one simple little frustration is this. Years ago I learned that for one’s website to be successful it had to be “sticky” which means that you theoretically want users to come to your site and stay. This is why a series of links as the first thing you displayed would cause folks to route through your site as opposed to stay a while.
To that end, each time I insert a link into a blog posting, I make sure it opens in a new window. This is a pet project of mine, because I like this feature myself. Now Bloglines does this automatically, when you click a link in a blog posting being read via bloglines it forces it to open in a new window. Since I have Firefox forcing open in a new tab, my browsing/reading experience has been wonderful lately.
My problem with Performancing is that when you insert a URL there is no option to open in a new window. There also is no option to view and edit the source, so I can’t add the tags myself.
One thing I tried is to include target=_blank at the end of the URL but when I opened it in the WordPress backend, the code had been “cleaned up” for me and it stripped it away. Probably for the better.
I hope they include this in a future version. For the record, I didn’t see this in Deepest Sender either.
If they include this, I would be one happy camper. What I end up doing is publishing it as a draft and then editing the links, which almost defeats the purpose of posting this way. Here’s hoping they help me out with my little obsession!
