I just started writing a blog. I planned to use one just for my Race Reports so I can find them all in one place. The main reason was so I could get them in a format that was easy to publish without fiddling with them at every place I want to put them.
I use a MAC. So, I went searching for an offline blog editor so 1) I did not have to be online all the time while editing a long post and 2) I do not want to post to the blog until I am done – i.e. I dont want folks to be able to see it until I am done with it and libve editing just keeps it out there while I am working on it.
I did some google searches for MAC offline blog editing tools. I found MarsEdit, eCT and Desk. They are all paid but free trials (although I had to pay for Desk). I could not get MarsEdit nor eCT to work with my blog (I am using google’s blogger). And, I got no support for either. Desk worked but it went crazy on me while integrating – it duplicated HUGE sections of my blog 5-6 times within the post – it took me an hour or so to fix. Also, it messed up HTML tags. So, I cleaned my post up and edited it completely on the blog site online. It still has some HTML errors but I don't know how to find and fix them – it does not show me where specifically the errors are.
While searching, I found Live Writer from Microsoft for free. It appears to have by far the best reviews of all of them. I am now testing it. This is my first post.
Above is a picture of me in the finish chute of IM New Zealand 2015. One example of getting photo into blog properly.
Traditional Maori ceremony in their canoe.
I would like text to wrap around this picture but does not seem to work
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