Blog Exclusively From Your Desktop (Windows)

In recent times, most people that surf the web have or have had a blog. And as we’re living in the technologically advanced era, we’re prone to yearning for making anything that seems remotely inconvenient, well, simple.

This is where this quick, easy, and simple desktop blogging tool comes into place. Why not simplify the way you manage your blog and post without having to open your WordPress, Drupal, or any such blogging platform dashboard?

Lets Blog With BlogDesk

BlogDesk allows you to quickly write and publish posts onto your blog with the click and stroke of a few keys. You’ll be able to manage multiple blogs and create infinite amounts of posts with this tool.

With the support of WordPress, MovableType, Drupal, Serendipity, and others, it allows space for the diverse use of not only multiple blogs, but multiple blogs on several different blogging platforms.

Here’s How:

The first thing you’ll have to do once you’ve downloaded your desktop client is scroll to the menu bar up top, select ‘file’, and click on ‘manage blogs’.

Next you have to choose to create a new blog, enter the blog’s name, its address (www) and then you have to select which blogging platform your blog’s operating on.

Now BlogDesk will ask you for the blogs entry point and port. You will leave this just as it is. Now click ‘next’ and enter your login details.

You will arrive at a screen that will ask you for a blog ID, if you don’t want to enter one, just choose Get Blog-ID. Now click ‘next’ and you’ll be prompted to retrieve all of your blogs categories. Once your categories have been added, click ‘finish’, and you’re done adding a new blog.

Adding a Post

Adding a post if fairly simple. You just need to select your blog, the posts corresponding category, and if you would like to allow commenting, pings, or change the date.

Once your post is complete click on the green arrow pointing upwards and your post will instantly be published onto your blog.

Now, all you have to do is check the published post to make sure that it’s visible to all of your site’s visitors.

A nice simple fast publishing tool for bloggers.  Do you know of anything similar?   Let us know in the comments.

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Joel Reyes

From a very young age I've been interested and captivated by technology! Before entering college I began self teaching, exploring, and exploiting new found information on all sorts of technology venues. In addition to my "addiction" to the tech world I also began to gain a large interest in writing. It quickly became one of my strongest subjects where I continued to advance in. As time progressed I started thinking about a future in writing, but what better to write about if not on the subjects I love so much having to do with technology! Thus, several years later I continue writing helpful articles, tutorials, and reviews on computer software, design, development, and programing content.

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  • Frank April 12, 2009

    I really like BlogDesk, using it for two years now. Best ist BlogDesk’s small memory footprint and its image editing capabilities. It has its flaws though, especially the lack of integration for WordPress tags is a bit annoying, as well as the fact that it uses the built-in IE engine to render entry preview. Nonetheless, can’t live without BlogDesk. I tried Windows Live Writer, but that program’s just to bloated for me.

  • Zoopaman April 12, 2009

    I think that Windows Live Writer is a better alternative to this, as it supports source editing and live preview amongst other features.

    Also it’s not a wizard, and you can add tags and categories and change other options anytime.

  • Travis April 12, 2009

    I go the other way. I prefer Windows Live Writer, which comes as a shock because I rarely eel that Microsoft do anything right. But I find it easy to use and suits my needs.

  • Mahendra April 12, 2009

    Windows Live Writer rocks!

  • Girish April 13, 2009

    I don’t know , may be I am wrong..
    I don’t find any problem with using wordpress itself for publishing my articles.

    It is very fast
    It is very simple

    So what advantage we are getting by using a desktop tool.

    Please excuse me if I am shouting some rubbish.

    • Leisureguy April 13, 2009

      I formerly used the WordPress.com built-in editor, but I found that Windows Live Writer was MUCH better at fitting my workflow. For example, if I am blogging about the content of a particular tab in Firefox, Alt-Tab switches me between the web page displayed in Firefox and the post I’m working on in Live Writer. Since the Alt-Tab combination is pretty much automatic if you work with Windows, this helps a lot.

    • MK April 13, 2009

      If you are publishing text-only entry, the built-in WordPress editor is perfectly fine.

      But when working with images, Windows Live Writer saves a lot amount of time. You can insert images easily like a word processor, so there’s no need to upload them one by one. There are also a couple of image editing function that you’ll find very handy, like cropping, resizing, adding border around the image, and so on.

  • Leisureguy April 13, 2009

    I used to use Blogdesk, but I’ve switch to Windows Live Writer (free) and like it a lot.

  • Joel Reyes April 13, 2009

    Windows Live Writer is pretty good as well. However, this can be an alternative to it as well. Some bloggers like to try new apps that allow them to complete their tasks. This can be an excellent alternative. :)

  • Richard April 14, 2009

    I have tried several blogging applications. Windows Live Writer is my blog application of choice. It is easy to use and works well.

  • Julian Knight April 14, 2009

    Hi all,
    Though BlogDesk looks interesting, I was disappointed to find that it does not support Blogger.

    An alternative product that DOES support Blogger and much more is Zoundry Raven.

    It is based on Python script so it is multi-platform. It is free. It works!


    Regards,
    Julian Knight, http://it.knightnet.org.uk

  • gambit June 21, 2009

    I find also that Windows Live Writer works well and haven’t felt the need to switch. Surprising for a Microsoft product.