Andrej Koelewijn

Thought i might try another one, while i’m testing blogging clients. This time i’m using blogdesk. Ok, here we go with the images:

No copy, paste, but you can insert an image from the clipboard through a menu. Not as fast, but will work. And the first time i tried it, it didn’t work. The image is opened in an image editor where you can resize it. This again, isn’t without flaws. I opted to resize the image to 400px, so i entered 400, and tabbed out of the field. Nothing happened. So i started looking for a resize button. Nothing. Put my cursor in the size field again, entered 400, and pressed return. That works! You have to press enter. Very intuitive…

To upload to wordpress i had to configure ftp again. Seems like wordpress doesn’t support image upload.

So far i like live writer better.

I’ve looked at using a desktop blog editor before, but couldn’t find one which i liked. My main reason for using a blog client would be to avoid having to upload images. I just want to write a text, drag some images into the text and save it to my blog. I tried some clients but they all required me to upload images through some ftp window. Too much work. I want something which works like MS-Word. Paste an image into you text, resize and crop it in your document, and save it. No more external image programs required.

So far, Live Writer seems to be better already. I’ve just pasted a screenshot into this text and resized it. Cropping isn’t supported as far as i can tell. You can apply some effects to your image, like black and white and watermarking, but no cropping. Hope it ends up in the production release.

What about uploading? Let’s test…

Update: image upload is not seemless with wordpress. I had to enter ftp configuration details, like where to save the image. Also, i would think that a good image program would generate smaller images.

Conclusion: not bad, not great, but better than an html interface when adding a lot of images with a post.