Scriptogram - First Impressions

27 May 2013

I no longer host a site on Scriptogram - see this post

After working with scriptogr.am and dropbox for a few days, albeit on a very basic level, here are a few of my observations.

What I like

  • It’s FREE
  • Simply way of creating posts and pages using a text editor and some basic Markdown syntax.
  • You can customise (edit CSS and HTML) till your heart’s content
  • Proxima Nova (used in the Basic Theme) is a beautiful font
  • Did I mention it’s FREE

Quirks

  • Auto synchronisation should be a feature to save having to do it manually each time you make a change (which is often if you’ve got my grammar and spelling skills)
  • Published: True doesn’t seem to work so you need to omit it or remove the line (from your post or page document) if you’ve had it set to False
  • You have to ‘Allow’ the connection between Scriptogram and Dropbox every time you log in although I thought this was a one-time activity.
  • The Knowledge Base is fairly sparce
  • The Public Discussion forum has a lot of topics but not many are being answered
  • Code doesn’t display correctly in IE10
  • Social links don’t display correctly in IE10
  • Since when is 27 February in March - see my Archive page

To Do

  • Embedded images
  • Embedded video / audio
  • Get to 11 posts so I can test my pagination CSS / HTML
  • Import some or all of the posts on my current site