Ok, so having been blogging on my personal blog over the past several months, I have found that the WYSIWYG editors built in to these blog thingamajigs are fairly straight forward and easy to use. I have seen several people recommend blog editors though. These are people who are (as far as I can tell) successful Internet Marketers so I have to believe there’s a reason why they would recommend something like that.
My first thought was that maybe they wanted to sell me the blog editor, but as far as I can recall, the editors I’ve seen recommended have been free.
So what’s the deal? Is there some advantage to using an editor that I am missing?
Tags: blog editing software, blog editors, newbie question
September 27th, 2008 |
September 28th, 2008 at 12:18 am
I think they would be useful – I tried to install one but got error messages and didn’t have time to figure out what was wrong. That’s the only reason I haven’t started using them yet – but it’s on my list! If it works out I think it would save a lot of time.
September 28th, 2008 at 1:30 am
But is it the kind of thing that would save time for someone if they didn’t have an internet connection or is there something else I’m missing?
I guess I just had a little bit of a “light bulb” moment with that statement I just made. I suppose if someone is mobile and traveling with a laptop, they might be working on a blog but not have a connection, so I could definitely see the use there.
Are there any other reasons to use them?
September 29th, 2008 at 7:49 am
I’ve used a few, they are okay. Mostly they have more features like a word processor, but I do fine with wordpress built in editor! I’ve tried scribefire, it’s a plugin for firefox and let’s you add stuff to blog posts while browsing. Easy to add photos, text, or even video, it’s cool…but I haven’t used it much.
I’ve also used live writer, it’s cool and gives you almost everything that microsoft word does. There are a few others, but the idea is that you get more functionality, and like you said, you can work when off line and upload at a later time.
I don’t use them much, especially with wordpresses new autosave feature, I can get everything I need done in there.
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September 29th, 2008 at 11:09 am
That clears things up some. I guess blog editors can really come in handy for the people who are on the go! So far I’ve been pretty impressed with the Wordpress editor as well. I need to start adding some images tho…OH NO! UNFAMILIAR TERRITORY!!!
Can’t be too much more difficult than blogger, right? Looks easy enough…
September 29th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
Dustin, I use a blog editor that I really like. I wrote about all the features here: http://honestholly.com/free-blog-word-processing-software-must-have/
and it is free to download and use forever. It is Windows Live Writer. You can also write while offline and save drafts – once connected to the web it would be posted to whichever categories you choose.
But with Wordpress, the built-in one is fine. If you want to take it further and make it better (with full editing capabilities and features you can) with this plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tinymce-advanced/
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September 29th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
It was actually your blog post, Holly, that had me wondering what I was missing! Here I was, thinking to myself, “OK, here is something that someone who is successful is using. Why are they using it? What is it that I am missing???”
Thanks for the plugin recommendation. I will most certainly have to check it out!