Post Editing Tools

In the past, I’ve mentioned that I like to use the Windows Live Writer tool to enter and edit postings for this site. Unfortunately, it’s not available for the Mac, so I’ve been looking for new blogging tools. Today, I’m trying one called Qumana, and one of the things that’s attractive about it is that it’s available for both PC and Mac.

You may wonder why I don’t just use the control panel login to WordPress and be done with it. There are a couple of reasons. First, there are times I want to write something, but don’t have an available internet connection. With programs like Windows Live Writer or Qumana, I can write a new entry for the site from any place or at any time, and upload it later, when I get back to someplace where I have an internet connection.

Second, the WP back-end doesn’t allow for easy post formating, especially when it comes to image placement. While not as slick as Windows Live Writer, Qumana does make placing and image easy, and more intuitive than some of the other Mac-based blogging tools. Unfortunately, it doesn’t allow for images as links that open full-sized versions of the image. At at least, I haven’t figured out how to make it work if it does support it. So far, WLW is the only tool I’ve found that does that the way I like.

Text formating is nice and easy, too. The text editor is reasonably WYSIWYG, and setting up multiple blogs of multiple types is pretty much automagic. The only thing I don’t care for is the little "powered by" slug that’s automatically added to each post. Fortunately, that can be turned off …

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