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Hard to find draft blogs

aswinvenu

I was working on a blog yesterday. I couldn't complete it yesterday so I saved it as draft. Today it took me almost 30 mins to find the draft. It seems like only when you try to to start a new blog you can access the drafts.
One other thing I noticed it, If you want to create a blog on say open source hardware you have to go to "Technologies" and then select "open source hardware" and then create a blog. I feel it should be much more intuitive if you can create a blog from the landing page and select the technology or forum from a drop down.

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  • Top tip, it's best to write your draft offline, in (say) MS Word. And then paste it all in when complete. The site is actually not bad in retaining drafts even when there's a broken Internet connection for instance, but I still think it's better all round to prepare in Word first. It's easier to edit and organise stuff in a tool like Word, than online editors. 

  • in reply to shabaz

    Does it remove embedded Word control codes when you paste it in?  I had many a problem with that with Oracle’s CM system - we had to write our own routine to walk the DOM stripping stuff out.  Still, it’s a good tip to follow, although I just use a simple text editor out of habit from that problem.

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  • in reply to shabaz

    Does it remove embedded Word control codes when you paste it in?  I had many a problem with that with Oracle’s CM system - we had to write our own routine to walk the DOM stripping stuff out.  Still, it’s a good tip to follow, although I just use a simple text editor out of habit from that problem.

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  • in reply to Andrew J

    I think it's supposed to preserve headings, but actually I do the same as you. After the content is written in Word and I'm happy with it, then I copy-paste into Notepad, and then copy-paste from there into the website. (I'm sure Word allows a direct unformatted copy but I don't know the magic presses, so Notepad will do!). And then insert photos to match what I had in the Word doc, and then go through each paragraph, pressing backspace then Enter so that paragraphs are recognised by the site editor, then setting the headings. Tedious, but better than typing and editing it entirely in the site editor.