Testing Windows Live Writer
Windows Live Writer is surprisingly good. Not only does it support non-Microsoft blogging services but even detects and handles non-standard configurations. The preview function also shows posts as they will look when published - something Google's own Blogger service doesn't do correctly.
I've been thinking about moving off of Blogger to something completely hosted on my own server... I've tested a few free tools like Joomla and Pligg (and even use WordPress for Escape Archive) but they all strike me as being more trouble than they're worth. Joomla's initial setup and customization experience is especially awful.
There's also theming to think about. Although Blogger lacks many features, it does have some reasonably decent templates that are easy to personalize. Joomla and WordPress on the other hand are terribly ugly out of the box.
If anyone has had a good experience with an open source CMS please let me know... If not for this blog, then perhaps one would be appropriate for another project.
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3 Comments:
I would definitely recommend Wordpress for any blogging, there's plenty of themes that you could use. The Cutline theme is especially nice.
For anything more indepth, I would use Drupal, but it's not exactly the friendliest platform to learn. Very powerful, though.
4:12 PM
I´m also partial to Wordpress, the usability is nice and there are more themes and plugins than you could ever dream of.
I´m tinkering a lot with joomla, but finding it pretty counter-intuitive. All the themes come with extra crap that nobody could ever need. Why?
9:14 AM
That Cutline theme is pretty decent.
I'm going to give Wordpress a try for a project this weekend and see how things go.
11:30 AM
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