Blogging software
There are two important things to know about me:
- I am lazy
- I am cheap
So, I want to be able to blog easily, but have whatever I’m using not cost anything. I’ve been using Deepest Sender, as I’ve mentioned a few times, but I think I may actually be outgrowing it. For one, now that I added a second blog (more on that when it’s ready), the fact that danconley.net auto-logs-in is annoying. You’d think that unchecking ‘log in automatically’ would do the trick, but you would be sadly mistaken.
Also, I’d like to start using more pictures in posts. Maybe not as much here, as I don’t need to illustrate my self-involved delusions, but while the browser admin panel for Wordpress allows me to upload images and then insert them, DS does not. Now I understand what Lifehack.org meant when they said Firefox blogging extensions had ‘no good image support.’
While I have a PC as my ‘main’ computer, I do most of my blogging from my Macbook and so any downloadable application would need to work with OS X. But not 10.5, because point 2 up there prevents me from upgrading.
I’ve checked out ecto, as I’ve heard about it a few times, but while $18 is cheap it’s certainly not free, and that is after all what I’m striving for.
Does anyone know of any good — or at least decent — blogging programs that will let me upload images easily? Of course I’m worried that that will mean ‘FTP’ which is a no go: this server is locked down too tightly for any of that port 21 crap. I may be stuck with what I have, or spending some money; I have no problem paying for something if I’ll use it, so biting the bullet re: ecto isn’t out of the question as long as it’s very, very good.
Or I could suck it up and just use CyberDuck to upload things myself 