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What Blogging Software Do You Use?

by Ron Schenone on March 28, 2008 at 2:44 pm · Comments
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For the past few days or so, the formating tool bar on my site here has taken a vacation. When I log in to the dashboard and go to write, only the HTML code section appears. It has been way to long since I played the code game and like most of you, have become totally spoiled using text editors that do the work for you. I checked with some of the other LG blog folks and they also are missing the formating tool bar, which confirms my suspicion that it just wasn’t me.

So I received some advice from a few here concerning using a 3rd party application to post my writings. I am currently testing ScribeFire which is an add-on to Firefox. So far it works OK. Plus it publishes my dribble without any problems.

But I thought I would ask everyone what they use. What software best serves your blogging style?

Comments welcome.

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What do you think?

dabrace1984 - March 28, 2008 @ 2:52 pm

I have also been experiencing this problem. Since I don’t post too often, I figured I would just wait even though I have something I want to post. I figured I would just wait because it includes some pretty intensive embed codes and the like. I just have to be patient.

Ron Schenone - March 28, 2008 @ 3:39 pm

Hi dabrace1984,
Hopefully it will be fixed soon.

dabrace1984 - April 2, 2008 @ 7:00 am

Ron,

I’m not sure if you read “The Ramblings of a College Student” on Lockergnome but the author (Justin) is actually planning on leaving Lockergnome because of this issue. Another blogger here referred users to Windows Live Writer as an alternative. I checked it out and my first test was to see if it would allow me to successfully edit a previous post; after all, a lot of programs don’t like manipulating code from another interface/program. Worked fine for me. Give it a try.

http://www.lockergnome.com/jfcapasso/2008/04/01/chao-lockergnome/

Ron Schenone - April 2, 2008 @ 9:20 am

Hi dabrace1984,
Do you need to use IE for WLW to function? I’m a Firefox loyalist and FireScribe is working well.

I saw [Justin’s] post and complaints. :-( We are all hoping that once Chris makes the BIG change over to a different system, all will be well. Fingers crossed.

dabrace1984 - April 2, 2008 @ 8:57 pm

Hi Ron,

Sorry I didn’t respond earlier, such is life. I am running a brand new MacBook Pro with a VMware Fusion Windows XP virtual machine. I have Windows Live Writer installed along with Windows Live Mail desktop (because I have multiple Hotmail accounts and it makes it so much easier to check them all at the same time). Windows Live Writer is a stand alone application that probably (not exactly sure) uses Internet Explorer in it’s interface; but I can’t confirm or deny that claim. Give it a try for a couple of your posts and do a comparison with FireScribe. I will probably try FireScribe myself.

–Doug

Ron Schenone - April 3, 2008 @ 3:33 am

Thanks Doug.

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