BlogApp 1.3 - Great for anyone with a blog at blogger.com

[edesignuk]

Just found this great little OS X app. If you have a blog at blogger.com then you can post directly to it from this neat little app, it's great! It makes posting your most recent thoughts an absolute breeze & is much quicker than going via the website, although if you want to change any of your blogs settings you will still have to use bloggers web interface.

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[Kid Red]

WTF is a blog? I've seen it like 7 times in the past 3 days.

 

[asparagui]

a weblog. an online diary/website.

mine: www.universe42.com

-Brett

 

[Kid Red]

So people just enter in personal events like a diary, post it on the net and other people read and enjoy them? Not sure I understand the phenomenon.

 

[chewbaccapits]

Uh...

right...Don't understand it....How different is this from POSTING in a normal website?

 

[ryan]

It's not really all that different. The beauty of it, like these forums is that you're able to have a "presence" on the web/internet without having to know any thing about web servers, html, javascript, etc. As part of a contracting assignment a year or so back I was asked to setup a weblog server from Userland. Quite frankly their code is junk but it does make it easy for people to have their own website with a minimal amount of effort.

 

[alset]

Does this system support Flash? Is it strictly HTML?

Dan

 

[davy the bunny]

Archipelago

Just to throw a little competition in. . .

There's also Archipelago which I believe may do the same thing for free and so far in my experience it's pretty dependable.

 

[Digidesign]

Blogger.com

pros:
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1. easy to use
2. archives your entries
3. Lots of basic templates to choose from
4. Basic Blogger is FREE
5. Lot of people use it

cons:
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1. Security issues, giving them your FTP login/password for your site. Most people don't mind, some do.

2. For those who are HTML savvy, you can whip up a much better template for your entries than what Blogger generates. Because it's a loop generation, all entries are formatted in the same style, which is frustrating if you want more flexibility. I think Blogger Pro addresses this, but you pay for it.

3. The archive feature is hard to maneuver around. There is no search feature, and to find a particular blog can be painstaking since all you have to nav through are date ranges.

4. I don't think there are security features for your blog (i.e., password access). So, your blogs are viewable to all (I guess that's the point).

 

[cgmpowers]

My blogger...

I have had a blogger for six months and for the most part like it.

However, I agree that the archives are a pain in the butt but the rest of it works well for me.

Check mine out..

CGMP Blogger

When you're finished, check out the rest of my website.

CGMP.org