The quest for a blogging client continues and the next option on the block is Scribefire.
It’s a bit different to the two I’ve tried already, BloGTK and BlogDesk, in that it’s a Firefox plugin. I like to use my browser as a browser and I don’t particularly like plug-ins that try to extend a browser to do something it wasn’t designed to do. But we’ll see.
Installation was a breeze.
- Went to Scribefire site. Installed plugin and restarted FF.
- Scribefire setup wizard was excellent. I put in my blog’s URL and it came back and told me that it’s a WordPress blog and offered some default options. Next I just put in my user/pass and that’s that. That’s how a setup should be – nice and easy.
- Get taken to a welcome page and then I hit F8 to bring up Scribefire’s window. And I’m writing this after about 2 mins setup tine.
Editor is nice. Has all the expected options plus a few nice extras.
There’s a quote button.
There’s buttons to increase and decrease font size. That’s useful – save’s having to remeber which header tag you are supposed to be using.
The insert image is OK. It lets you specify a local file or a URL. There’s an option to upload the local file using FTP or the WP XML-RPC API.
No option scale or modify the image though – that’d be nice. At the very least a “small, medium, normal or large” selector would do.
There’s a source view too, which is handy to tidy up any loose HTML created by the WYSIWYG.
Wow, just noticed the Preview pane. This rocks. It picks up my blogs theme and shows the preview using that – extremely cool.
The really nice menu options I mentioned earlier are buttons to let you drop in video or image from YouTube and Flickr respectively.
Where’s Scribefire saving my post to before I publish it?
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