The two quoted replies were taken from the comment section of the article included below. I'm so pleased with this!
"Reply By: Dark-Star Posted: Monday, November 24, 2003
Dear Melchiah,
You have some interesting points. I'll have to keep these in mind and let my co-workers hear at Stardock know about some of your requests. Who knows, you just might see them added to the site. The Advanced Printing options seem to be a smart idea.
Thanks for the suggestions. I'll pass them on.
--Dark-Star"
"Reply By: Melchiah Posted: Monday, November 24, 2003
Okay, see...this just makes me very happy. Not just that people in general are reading my posts, but there are also people from Stardock reading my posts. That's incredible. Add to it that one of my suggestiongs/requests may very well end up even being mentioned to the admins of JoeUser. It feels nice to know that the users matter and StarDock hasn't lost sight of that. I'm very impressed. The service I received on every other blog site I've used was...hmm...somewhat lacking (to put it politely.)
Thank you Dark-Star "
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I'm having second thoughts about keeping my JoeUser blog. I really like the site and the way it works, but it (like all other blogs I've found) lack a few things I need. It would make more sense if I explain why I need the features I need before stating what features are.
Pardon me while I get a bit personal, wait...this is my blog! >
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I have a brother serving a life sentance in prison and I communicate with him via snail mail. I can't tell you how much I wish he had access to email, but that's not the point. What is the point is that when I sit down each week to write him a letter I don't know what to say so I ramble. By the time I'm done I've written twenty pages of nothing really significant. I want a method of telling him about our lives day to day, and with a little personality tied in. I think a blog is perfect for that since I write in it every day talking about what I and my family are up to. I figured a printout of my blog along with a much smaller personal letter to him would be nice. So, what I want in a blog is the ability to blog as usual, making it look the way I want and all the usual stuff, but with one special feature; advanced printing options.
The standard layout of a blog for online purposes is perfect. They operate on the premise that anyone reading today's post(s) knows what's going on becuase they've read the posts made earlier. The problem is that-that doesn't work when you're printing an entire blog to be mailed to someone. The blogs prints backwards. More recent post at the top of the page with all earlier ones beneath it. That's confusing for people to read because it would mean reading from last page first, bottom to top. That's the complete opposite of what we're used to doing when reading things in print.
I need a way to print a weeks work of blog entries with the most recent one printed last, so basically in the reverse order in which they are presented online. That way when I send them to my brother they can be read first page first (The oldest entries) from top to bottom.
I'd like to design my own blog using CSS and use an Dreamweaver extension or some other method of printing the blog "backwards." Sadly, I do not know enough about HTML/CSS to accomplish this. So I scour the net looking at all the blog services hoping to find one that has what I need.
I don't even know if all that made any sense...
~Melchiah
PS: If any of you out there know of a way for me to accomplish this would you please let me know? Thank you.