Radio UserLand: The Missing Manual

On Steve Kirks Radio wish list, he writes about Theme Generation for Radio.

Imagine a Radio function that asks you questions and helps you build your theme. How many columns? What colors? What graphics? You answer and then Radio builds simple themes using CSS. It sounds like that's a neat little $19.99 add on to me.

I like that idea. Perhaps one could mimic the Layout-o-matic site, including the base set of Radio macro calls, of course.

Lately, I've been hanging out on the Radio Discussion Forum, helping where I can, learning what I can, listening. To make it easier to keep up with the amount of traffic, I have subscribed to the Discussion group rss feed in my news aggregator of choice, NetNewsWire. You might subscribe to the feed in Radio or any number of news aggregators available.

One hot item people are talking about originated with Steve Hooker. I'm looking forward to Steve releasing a Radio tool that contains many of his scripts. As he is releasing these currently, they are just too hard for average Jane Radio user to install. As a tool, perhaps it will be an easier process. I use a few of Steve's scripts and they are quite handy. For instance, suppose you make some changes to one of your category templates and you'd now like to see those changes rendered to all the pages in that category. How are you going to do that? The Publish menu in Radio doesn't offer that option. I can do it with one of Steve's scripts that allows me to choose a folder and everything in that folder will be touched, causing Radio to upstream the pages to the server. Touching a file updates the date and time just as if you had opened the file and saved it, which is exactly the flag that Radio uses to know whether or not something has changed and therefore needs to be uploaded.