Digital Musings

For sometime now I have thought about using a desktop blogging client, as I had heard about the advantages of using one. After looking at a good amount of blogging clients (although, it was difficult to find the best of the lot), I decided that I.ll let everyone know the how can a blogging client benefit a blogger so that they can make use of the blogging softwares for making things simpler. I have listed the blogging clients I have worked with and listed the pros and cons, so that one can make the correct decision while selecting any client.

Now before I list the blogging clients that I have looked at, I would like to list the advantages of using a blogging client.

1. Back up: Desktop blogging clients keeps the published posts on the local hard drive and thus one has a backup of all the posts that have been written through the client. In a situation like data loss, you can rest assures that you would not lose any of your posts. Only comments will be lost, although, if you make the backup regularly then you don.t really have to worry but still it is good to have the posts backed up through blogging client as well.

2.Browser crash : Sometimes it happens that you are working on a post for quite sometime and suddenly the browser crashes. Although, WordPress has released the auto save feature but that comes with the newest version, some other blogging platforms may not have the auto save feature. Blogging clients have that feature, the fear of losing the posts gets low.

3. Spell Check: If you use Firefox, then this feature is already included and even in the online editor, you have the spell check option, which helps one to write a post without any speilling spelling errors.

4. Easy file uploading : Blogging clients easily integrate images and easily upload the images on the fly, while publishing the posts and thus one saves time and effort.

There are many more features and advantages, which a blogger can get when he uses a Blogging client. I always advice bloggers to try and use any one and they would find it a better option than the online editor. The list of some clients is given below and also their Pros and Cons:

1. Windows Live Writer:

As the name suggests, “Windows” live Writer is a Blogging client from Microsoft. It is certainly a feature rich client and can be considered as one of the best there is.

Pros: 1. Support for most of the blogging platforms.

2. WYSIWYG Editor provided.

3. Excellent image Editor.

4. Options to insert tags from Deli.cio.us , Technorati etc.

Cons: 1. Unable to insert Videos in WYSIWYG mode.

2. Crashes if post is too long and contains many pictures.

2.ScribeFire:

ScribeFire, formerly Performancing for Firefox, lets you compose and publish blog posts directly from your browser.

Pros: 1. You can blog directly from your browser.

2. Supports all major Blogging platforms.

3. WYSIWYG and HTML Editing.

4. Ftp upload support and extensible through plug-ins.

Cons: 1. No Spell Check option.

2. No support for any other browser, except Firefox.

3. W.Blogger:

Known to be the best interface between a blogger and his blog, W.Blogger indeeddoes the job very well.

Pros: 1.Supports almost all blogging platforms, popular or not.

2. Simple and quite stable. Almost never crashes.

3.FTP support and supports XHtml.

4. Available as standalone software as well as a Firefox Plug in.

Cons: 1. None after the latest update.
4. Blogjet:

Its is the heavyweight champ of all blogging clients. Very simple to use, highly stable and loaded with features.

Pros: 1. WYSIWYG Editor with spell check and word count.

2. Easy Image and Video integration.

3. Auto-replacement of predefined terms.

4. Easy integration with leading Blog services.

5. Allows posting to multiple blogs.

6. Excellent looking interface.

Cons: 1. No auto save feature, need to save drafts manually.

2. No inbuilt FTP client.

3. Although its not a Con, but Blogjet isn’t for Free, Cost: . 29.95.

I hope that this post would help you choose the most suited logging client/softwarewhich suits your requirement. If you have suggestions regarding any Blogging software, please leave a comment and I would give it a try and write about it in the coming days.

Cheers!

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