RADIO WAVES - News and gossip from the Radio world. 
Why another weblog/site about Radio UserLand?
- I use Radio daily so I could benefit from this as well.
- I believe there is room for another site about Radio.
- UserLand just reinforced their commitment to Radio by hiring Steve Kirks as Radio Product Manager.
- Because I want to.
After explaining how a Radio tool called radioEditThisPage works, I got this response from Hetty, another Radio UserLand user.
Some time ago I bought that Radio Kick Start book. The only problem is, people like me need something like The Missing Radio Manual. What we now have is a sort of a descriptive 'grammar' of radio for people who already learned and know 'grammar'. I don't mean a book 'for dummies' (I'm not a dummy, as I had in my windows days, installed Linux on the HD), but a book that explains things the way you just did.
Gee, thanks Hetty. Here's how I explained it.
You install the tool. You add a macro to your #itemTemplate.txt file like this:
<%radioEditThisPageSuite.myRadioEdit ()%>
And then you publish your home page. Now, you'll notice two little dot's were inserted where you placed the macro. Click on one of those dots and Radio will come to the front, with the post all ready to be edited. Make your edits, save them and then the post will be pushed to your Radio site.
I hear you Hetty. As a Radio user, I've been plugging away at this amazing little engine for a few years and I'm still learning new things. Thanks to books like Frontier: The Definitive Guide by Matt Neuburg and Radio UserLand Kickstart by Rogers Cadenhead, as well as the various Radio self help sites floating around the web, and most importantly, the community of people who help answer questions, I've been able to get quite a bit done on the web.
Of course, I've got plenty of web bookmarks for Radio sites. I've got little notes stashed here and there that I refer to when I want to extend Radio in some fashion. I'll bet you and other Radio users do as well. Since this is the web, and I've adopted Radio's tagline as my own, I'm going to move those tidbits from my computer, into this site, created in Radio, of course, and do my part to contribute to the world of Radio users who have the power of Web publishing on their desktop.
How will this site be different? We'll have to see but I am going to do my best to think like a newbie and keep it simple. What's a newbie? A person new to something, such as Radio or spelunking. I am not a Radio newbie. I am not a Radio programmer, either. I'm a Radio user. And I'm hooked.
