Postable

This post is part of my “Web Monkey’s Toolbox” series, which focuses on one web application or web site that will make life easier for those of us who spend our time creating web sites, graphics, and writing code for the web.

Like many creations, Postable was created by someone who was continually annoyed by something stupid. Using text areas in for blog posts – or just managing web content in general – is the fact that seem to randomly have a case of stupidity where it won’t translate certain symbols into their HTML equivalents.

Read what Elliot Swan, creator of Postable, has to say about his very popular creation:

I absolutely hate having to switch all the “< ” and “>” signs in my code to “<” and “>”, respectively. I also hate having to write “&” anytime I want to include an ampersand. This makes including code snippets on my blog and whatnot extremely annoying, and today I finally got fed up.

So, I threw together Postable, a little app that will do all that for you. Just paste your code in there, hit the button…and walla. Post-friendly code.

If you heavily rely on content management systems, you no doubt share in the irritation that Elliot had. Give it a try!

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