BlogDesk – the one and only blogging client?

I’ve just downloaded and tested BlogDesk after a recommendation from the good Rasmus Sørensen. It may just be the offline blogging client I’ve been looking for, as this client lets me populate the excerpt field in WordPress. So far I’ve tried out 5-6 clients, including ScribeFire for Firefox. So I decided to write this review/test of BlogDesk.

Installation is straight forward and adding account is hassle free and the interface is nice and clean.

The only thing I miss is an option for adding tags and a button for blockquotes.

BlogDesk supports all major blogging tools:

BlogDesk is totaly free of charge and optimized for the blog systems WordPress, MovableType, Drupal, Serendipity and ExpressionEngine as well as the bloghosters Blogg.de and Twoday.net.

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5 Responses to “BlogDesk – the one and only blogging client?”

  1. Andreas Johannsen
    January 15th, 2008 at 7:57 am

    Hm, I miss a Mac version (and maybe some aesthetics)

  2. PÃ¥l
    January 15th, 2008 at 9:45 am

    Somehow I suspected you were going to say that… ;-)

  3. Rasmus
    January 15th, 2008 at 4:11 pm

    Hey, glad you liked it PÃ¥l. I got it from some of my fellow mods at WebmasterWorld. I had some problems getting it to run under Windows Vista, but the lads promtly came to the rescue with this:

    “When I run BlogDesk under Windows Vista, the file dhtmled.ocx is missing.
    You can get this file from Microsoft, just follow the instructions of their help page.”

    So if you’re running Vista and you really want Blogdesk, just download and run the linked file above from MS and you’re all set! :)

    @Andreas – Mac version? Don’t think MacD makes a version of BlogDesk – they might run a promo offer somewhere ;)

  4. support
    January 15th, 2008 at 7:31 pm

    Tags can be added (see http://forum.blogdesk.org/viewtopic.php?t=436)
    The buttons for blockquote (add, remove) are the second and third from the right on the buttonbar.

  5. PÃ¥l
    January 15th, 2008 at 10:16 pm

    Now, That’s Support 2.0 for you :-) I tested the buttons, and they do add proper blockquote-code in the code.
    That alters my complaint to wanting better icons for the blockquote function. The ones mentioned are commonly used for increasing indent (as your tooltip also states).

    And again, credits for being attentive of the blog conversations on your product :-)

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