For Blogger users…

Let’s face it. Blogger sucks. You type up a great big entry, click Post, and watch with horror as an error page comes up. You click back, already knowing that your latest blogging masterpiece has dissipated into the ether. After a few times, you start copying and pasting your words into a Word document before posting as a precautionary measure, but Goddammit, it shouldn’t have to be this way.

Unfortunately, the only real way to get around Blogger’s sketchiness is to upgrade to a real blogging solution like Movable Type or WordPress.

However, you can reduce some of the pain and misery of using Blogger by using the w.bloggar blogging client.

w.bloggar works on your computer and lets you save posts as local text files. Just click the save button or ctrl-s before publishing and never again will you lose a post to Blogger’s ineptitude.

For everyone…

It’s a pain in the ass to type in the tags to make things boldface, italicized, underlined, or stricken each and every time. Links and images are also a pain. While the addition of DHTML formatting tools helps a bit, I don’t like to click buttons. I like keyboard shortcuts, and I don’t like learning new ones. I don’t like the focus being taken away by a JavaScript dialog box and being forced to click into the textbox to find my place. I don’t like HTML being dumped at the end of post when I really want it placed where I had my insertion point. I don’t like having to go through multiple steps to add images to my posts.

Fortunately with w.bloggar you can get around all of these little productivity-killing aspects of web-based blogging and focus on what you really want to do: blog.