I’ve been uninspired by the traditional blog interface, and I have been meaning to check out a desktop blogging unit. Today, by forces in the universe, Tweetdeck passed me a good link. Based on the advice of a tweep, I downloaded and installed BlogDesk. So far, it’s been straightforward and easy to use.
- Downloading and installing was totally easy, as expected: go to the site, click download, run the installer, hooray.
- Setting up the connection to my blog – again very straightforward. It was a little tricky to figure out how to add the blog at first – but I just right clicked on the right side of the interface and selected “Create new blog”.
- I really dig the way BlogDesk fetched my already existing categories. Would have loved to see it fetch tags, I don’t see any place for me to enter tags for this post?
- It’s not intuitive at all how to get the “read the rest of this article” break/link. I added it in the source of this post, we’ll see how that goes…
- The editor seems decent so far, very uncluttered and streamlined, I like that.
- Here goes adding a picture to the post…
That was pretty cool, lots of fun options of things to do with the image, we’ll see how it looks in the post…
OK, adding the border wasn’t a great idea, it made the background white which didn’t work for me. We’ll try again without adding a border…-
Saving is easy, and publishing looks like just the click of a button.
That concludes my first trial run, so “Hello, world!” Let’s check this thing out on the site…
Editing an existing post was not much fun at all from a total n00b perspective. It wasn’t too harsh because I am comfortable with the “view source” mode, but I could see it being intimidating for people that are just bloggers and not developers. All in all I’d say the BlogDesk is pretty decent, I will try to continue using it and hone my skills with it.
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