Desktop Blog Editor Blogo

I am trying out a few desktop blog editors to help with some offline work that I do. I first worked with Blogo due to the favorable reviews from other blog writers. I used Blogo in combination with Google's Blogger product.

What's useful...

Blogo uses a clean interface, intuitive design and easy to setup.

I love the ability to save the posts to the draft folder on Blogger. If I am away from my Mac I can continue to edit my draft in Blogger.

I also used the tool bar add-on a number of times during my trial.

What's not useful...

The first time I included images in a post, Blogo tossed up a generic 500 error.

A Google search didn't help, and the mention on the Blogo site was less than useful...

Editing a draft on Blogger then syncing back to Blogo causes the images to rearrange. I found no easy way to place the images back into the original locations so I removed them to start over. While not overly time consuming, it's a bit annoying.

I found the same issue when saving the blog post offline (documents folder) to open later. After opening the post, the images re-arranged into other places. I also noticed some added spaces and carriage returns though it could be apart of the same issue with the images.



Summing up...

The later issue pretty much stopped me from using Blogo. I am willing to go back and dig into the features. I enjoyed the design enough to determine if I have some configuration issue causing me problems.