Blogging from your desktop

January 28th, 2007

Writing important text in a browser window can be an awful experience, especially if the written text exceeds a few rows. Supposing you have a WordPress blog out there, you would normally connect to the admin interface and type the text into an online form, editing and formatting it by hand. If your browser crashes, or if your Internet connection drops, you know as well as I do that some of the text you typed *might* be lost. And if you compare the editing form with a traditional word processor such as Word, you find a big difference between the available features.

Like I said, a big reason for the difference mentioned above is that Word can take advantage of the processing power that you have at home, while your browser needs to stay lightweight to transfer data quickly over the network. These applications function more like traditional word-processing applications and offer some extended features that your browser doesn’t offer. To get started, you simply need time to experiment. I am going to present a desktop blogging client that might change the way you post to your blog.

It’s called w.bloggar and it’s a free client for Windows, that can post to many blog systems, including WordPress. The program is basically an HTML editor that offers point-and-click access to common HTML tags for building headings, lists, font colors, block quotes, tables, and more. You can even define your own HTML tags if you want.

The w.bloggar is an application that acts as an interface between the user and one or more blog(s); in other words, it is a Post and Template editor, with several features and resources that the browser based blog editors do not offer.

Because w.bloggar runs over the Windows GUI, it allows the user to edit posts without being connected to the Internet. Posts can be saved locally; and anytime the user wants to publish a new text, one click on the w.bloggar icon in the system tray brings up the editor, and one more click will post it to the weblog.

Another great advantage of w.bloggar is that it is compatible with most of the weblog systems available, allowing an advanced user to have only one interface to several accounts hosted on several different sites, using different publishing systems.

Blogging from your desktop

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