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February 20, 2005
Image Upload Test in Ecto
If you read my previous post, you know that I have been playing around with this blog content creation tool called ecto. So far I have been pretty impressed with its capabilities and extensibility. For example, I wanted my url links to target a new window. I was able to go into the tag template editor and add target=“_blank” to the template. So now whenever I highlight a word and click on url, the tag will include the “_blank” target. Pretty cool.
But, I wanted to test the image upload functionality, and so I created this posting. I clicked on the file upload icon (not clearly identified) on the bottom of the window. On my MAC it started right in my pictures folder. I selected a photo, and was able to resize the image, change the amount of compression on the jpeg, and build a fully customized image link. Very cool.
So, now I am going to post this, lets see if it works. Oh by the way I am currently listening to 2 Minutes To Midnight from the album “Rock In Rio” by Iron Maiden. Love that itunes integration.
UPDATE: The image upload functionality worked exactly the way I had hoped. The image is embedded into the posting, and a hyperlink was created to view the image in a separate window. I checked the pricing today on ecto's site. Get this, buy the mac version for $17.95, you get the windows version for $8.95. I have 7 days left in my trial. If anyone knows of a different tool that has the same functionality let me.
Posted by pmadsen at February 20, 2005 08:11 AM
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Maiden RULES!!!!!
Posted by: Dan Galvez at February 20, 2005 10:27 AM
