gdocweb Blog

Video Embed and Advanced GitHub Usage

January 27th, 2024

by Shai Almog

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This week I spent a lot of time working on gdocweb bugs around padding for images and bullet positioning. But I did introduce one very important feature: the ability to embed a youtube video into the blog post as you can see below. You need to write it as you can see below in the origin document as the first entry in a normal text paragraph. It’s important to replace “videoid” with the unique youtube video ID. E.g. in this case the video I’m linking to is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNjWg53q6J8 that means the videoid is “UNjWg53q6J8'' and I can embed this video using a special syntax you can see below. This video is intended for developers so if you don’t have developer experience you might want to skip the rest of this post.

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Single Page from Multiple Documents

January 19th, 2024

by Shai Almog

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A common type of website on the internet and in the startup world is the multi-section page. In such a page a single web page is divided into multiple distinct sections. Each section is colored differently and might even feature completely different stylings. This is possible to accomplish in Google Docs but is awkward. The big problem is the menu, in such sites it doesn’t navigate to a different page. It navigates within the page by scrolling the page down or up. Up until this week this was impossible to accomplish in gdocweb, but it’s possible now.

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Regenerate Immediately and RSS

January 14th, 2024

by Shai Almog

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gdocweb has its first few users and one of the big complaints is about the tediousness of going through that wizard every time you just want to test a change to a document. I don’t want gdocweb working in the background reading my documents and publishing, that would be an invasion of privacy. But I would like it to work instantly.

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Styling and Dark Mode

January 8th, 2024

by Shai Almog

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Styling a Document isn’t as Trivial as you Might Assume

When using Google Docs it’s often tempting to reach out to the font or color toolbar to design your document as you see fit. This would work great for simple sites but as gdocweb evolves you might find it produces a result that isn’t as attractive as you might want. The reason for that is due to two important features we just added to gdocweb: custom colors and dark mode.

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Blog Comments

January 3rd, 2024

by Shai Almog

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Comments are Now Available in gdocweb

gdocweb draws its power from Google Docs. It also inherits some of the Google Docs limitations. One such limitation is the rigidness of the platform, a great example would be in blog comments. With most tools we can simply add a comment widget and end on a high note. However, Google Docs has no feature like that.

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Introducing gdocweb

December 28th, 2023

by Shai Almog

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This Post is a Google Docs Document…

Yes. This post started off as a Google Docs document that you can see by clicking that link. I’m assuming you’re seeing it on the web which is where it’s supposed to be. It was translated to a web page seamlessly using gdocweb. Gdocweb converts Google Docs to websites or more importantly to GitHub Pages. GitHub provides free website hosting, including custom domains. That means you end up with a no-strings-attached website.

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This page was generated from this Google Docs document.

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