Blogdesk: the blogging desktop client
Posted: July 30th, 2008 | Author: remote | Filed under: blogging |This post is written using Blogdesk. It’s a desktop application that lets you write blog post and then publish them without having to visit your blog through a browser.
It took roughly 5 minutes to setup, I:
- Created a new blog user with Author rights but not Admin (I’m paranoid)
- Installed BlogDesk
- Went through the “New Blog” wizard. This set the blog user to post with, downloaded the categories and checked that images could be uploaded.
- Wrote this post.
The Blogdesk GUI is nicely laid out, you can start the app up and get straight into writing a post without having to select any menus or other needles UI interactions.
The editor has all the features you expect:
- Change fonts and styles
- Change colours
- Insert lists
- Add links
- Spell checker
- Insert graphics.
The “insert graphic” option is great. It lets add styles such as the shadow on the left, position the graphic and also resize it. Very nice.
The F5 button switches the GUI editor between WYSIWYG and HTML modes so you can tweak your markup if you need to.
This is my first post using BlogDesk but it seems like a quick and easy way to blog - much quicker than using Wordpress’ own method. The image insertion functions make BlogDesk worth using on their own.
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