Skip this post if you don’t have your own blog.
Every year or so I experiment with offline blogging software, usually MarsEdit, as that seems to be the most popular on the Mac platform ($40). (The main competitor, Ecto, is only $20.)
There is a bit of a learning curve in using MarsEdit. But I think I’m willing to spend the time to learn it. Finally.
Advantages:
• it’s faster to work offline
• live preview while you edit
• you can set up a “template” to duplicate the look and feel of your actual blog
Problems:
• no option to open links in a new window
• the resulting HTML text is more complex, more difficult to go back and edit
Leave a comment if you’ve a better solution to write blog posts offline. This post was written with MarsEdit. See any problem with it?