Windows Blog Clients

I can no longer live with managing my blog through the HTML editor embedded in blog
engine web pages. I have a Jones for the Windows blog editor experience and the perfect
fix doesn’t seem to yet exist.

Denied

I have downloaded, installed, tried, and uninstalled all of the following blog editing
applications.

ecto    

• Poor support for MetaWebLogAPI

• No image FTP upload capability

• Crashed quickly.

w.bloggar

• No WYSIWYG. Done.

BlogJet

• The standard. This app gave me the Jones in the first place, but can no longer satisfy
  it.

• BlogJet is just too amateurish in the UI

• The editor needs more features, like table support

• No post templates

• BUT, it works.

Qumana

Can’t remember why I took a pass on this one.

Zoundry Blog Writer

Can’t remember why I took a pass on this one.

SharpMT

• .Net 2.0 client. Nice.

• Too bad I couldn’t get past the NullPointerExceptions.

• I really hope this one sees some traction. Heck, if it were an Open Source project
  I might even contribute.

Not Yet Denied

I have installed the following applications and they are still installed. I will be
trying them during their trial periods and deciding which one to buy.

Post2Blog

• Standalone editor, but let’s me post directly from MS Word. This is the way they should
  all work.

• Weird interaction with MS Word. It actually launches the Print2Blog app when you post.

• No table support unless you are editing via Word. The truth is, though, that if I
  can edit in Word, I may just do that all the time.

• This one is currently in the lead.

RocketPost

• I like the UI, which is much like Outlook, with a 3 pane application model

• Frequent (like daily) updates to the application

• Still finding its feet. RocketPost still has a few bugs

• FTP support was a major pain to get setup, but it works now.