By The Way...

Another AOL Journaler has opened up a personal "Help" desk which she is filling with AOL and AOL Journal tips and tricks; you can find it here. She's trying a bunch of really far out things, such as inserting Excel documents as screenshots, which leads me to believe that if you scratch an AOL Journaler, you'll find a mad scientist. All I have to say about that is this: Don't be making no zombies, people. I mean it. I don't want to have to haul out my angry mob of villagers on you.

Seriously, some of the stuff Journalers are playing with here and on other "help"-like AOL Journals can seriously fiddle with the well-being of your Journal, especially if you do it incorrectly. So I'm very happy to see this suggestion: Create a Test Journal. This is indeed exactly what I've been doing since day one -- I have a little journal I use where I play around with coding and other stuff without worrying that By The Way will accidentally get mangled beyond all recognition. I've mentioned it in passing here and there.

I would really stress that before you do anything experimental on your Journal, try it out somewhere where you won't freak out if something goes wrong. That way your experimentation with AOL Journals stays fun. And that's the way it's supposed to be.

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• #1 Comment from deanhuns 
  10/20/03 10:56 PM | Permalink

  I was experimenting, too, although within reason. Another thing to think about is that even though some of these nifty things may work in the journal when it is viewed as a web, (.html), page, they probably will either not work at all or just look stupid when viewed in RSS form.
  I think the better way to provide that kind of content is to reference it in the journal and publish it in a web page.