Get The Edge: A New Series at Sueetie.com

Today we’re officially announcing our new series about the applications that make up Sueetie:  BlogEngine.NET, YetAnotherForum.NET, Gallery Server Pro and ScrewTurn Wiki.  This will be fun and interesting for all of us who love working with these great apps.

You’ll find The Edge at http://sueetie.com/edge.

The Edge will have news and tips on the Big Four from blog posts, forum discussions, tweets and elsewhere on the Web.  These are active communities and there’s a lot going on.  Fortunately there is RSS to the rescue. And speaking of RSS, The Edge allows you to subscribe to the series by application, so if you’re only interested in, say, BlogEngine.NET, you can subscribe to only those posts.

We’ll be using a Sueetie Wall application for the series.  We could have just as easily threw up another blog to add to Sueetie’s current three, but we went with a Wall for a couple of reasons.  For one, the news and tips on The Edge are intended to be short bite-size morsels with links to additional information. 

The other reason we chose a wall was because it was a perfect opportunity to dogfood the Sueetie Wall application and add or refine any features we felt we wanted to use in delivering a better Edge.  For instance, we added a new BBCode function to support call-out blocks of text to denote the main point or answer in an Edge post.  The Edge is also the first application that uses the new Sueetie Taxonomies for categorizing the posts.  Using a wall for The Edge also made us realize that the message editor needed to be hidden on page load and then toggled when needed.  Dogfooding is good.

Here’s a screenshot excerpt of The Edge Wall.

Get The Edge.  http://sueetie.com/edge