![]() You can just use a plain text editor, but the better editors have split screen, and the ability to load your custom CSS, so you can preflight it. It greatly streamlines the process, and removes barriers to being creative. When you need something beyond the standard capabilities of markdown, you can just put it inline. ![]() It is like a shorthand to handle about 80% of the tricky bits of HTML, removing a lot of the hassle of opening and closing tags, and creating features like tables, titles, blockquotes, code blocks, and others. At first I just did raw HTML coding, and used a text editor. My offline editors didn’t work, and I needed a way to create pages and mock them up offline. My job was to create the site, and to make it “easy” for non-savvy people to do some maintenance. As part of the Marketing and Communications group at Southern Arizona Greyhound Adoption, the desire was to use Joomla! instead of WordPress. Unfortunately, Microsoft has pretty much abandoned it, and as I am not really a Windows person, I never looked for a replacement.īut, in ’12 I started working with a different platform. It was similar in function to MarsEdit, and if I had to admit it, it was slightly better than MarsEdit. On the PC, early on, I used a Microsoft Program called Windows Live Writer. I used this for about a year pretty regularly. It works with WordPress, Blogger, Tumblr, TypePad, and other platforms, and gives you the ability to work even without an internet connection. You write, format, insert images (and do some resizing and other editing). On the Mac I used MarsEdit, which was a pleasant environment to create blog postings. You could use a rich text editor to work offline. There are a couple programs that connect to WordPress, and use XML-RPC to post. Without further ado: Text editingĮarly on, I just used the built in editing system in the Content Management System ( CMS), but that was limiting in that I could only work when I was online. They may not be “ best” practices, but they have streamlined the process, and brought some uniformity to my writing, and creative process. In this stretch of time, I have developed some practices. I have experimented with writing a custom site on the CakePHP framework. In between then and now, I have been through three (four if you count my work for Southern Arizona Greyhound Adoption) hosting / VPS providers, worked with WordPress from version 2 to the current 4.7, Drupal, Joomla! and Ghost. Shortly after that I dove into hosting my own blog, using my domain, and the rest is history. I was in a pretty bad place work wise, and I created a blog on merely as an outlet. Changesįix a crashing bug that affected users of certain non-US keyboard layouts including Spanish, French, and Swedish.Set the wayback machine to August 2009. It's simple, efficient and enjoyable to use although those who want maximum control over their blog will find it disappoints in certain areas.įix a crashing bug that affected users of certain non-US keyboard layouts including Spanish, French, and Swedish. If you're looking for a no-fuss desktop blog publishing tool, then MarsEdit is exactly what you need. The list is limited to less than a dozen, but you can always add more if you know of a good place that offers AppleScripts for MarsEdit. MarsEdit also comes with a few extra scripts that offer specific features. I also like the Re-Blog It! feature which is similar to WordPress's PressThis! feature and allows you to publish exciting web pages and content immediately to your blog with just a click of a button. ![]() This is especially useful if you are on the move or don't have access to the internet but want to update your blog urgently. One of the major advantages of MarsEdit over blogging platforms however is that you can compose posts offline. You can preview posts instantly so that you know exactly how they will look online before you publish. If you have a Flickr account, the program will also allow you to scan your library for pictures. MarsEdit can also handle publishing of media files meaning you can post videos, audio clips and images very easily. When editing, apart from writing, you'll be able to enter what you normally do in your CMS such as adding categories, author and post date. MarsEdit has a very simple interface which lets you really focus on your post. ![]()
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