Ecto

As I mentioned in a previous post, I am new to blogging and trying out off-line editors. I recently tried out MarsEdit. The program worked but lacked a few key features for me. The first feature is that I did not see anyway to create lists. Might be writing style, but I need to have the ability to create lists. The second was that paragraphs needed to be manually added it in. The author of the program pointed out to me that the paragraphs where an issue of the server, and there is a script to add them in.

So onto the Ecto eval. The install was very simple, and I was able to quickly have the editor link to our corporate blog site. The interesting thing is that Ecto found both my personal blog and a group blog that I participate in.

So far I am preferring the editor in Ecto. There are some cool links to add photos from iPhoto and music from iTunes. But as a mentioned I really need an editor that will take care of the paragraphs and allow me to do lists.

So onto lists. There are some nice formatting buttons across the top of the editor.

• Here is an unordered and list

1. and here is a numbered list

There is also an indent feature. While I did not mention this on my want lists, this is a great feature. I often post snippets of code and can use this feature.

I pushed a sample page. It looks like the paragraphs are working, and the rest of the formatting features are working.

Overall I like the editor in Ecto. I do have a couple of issues, that I am sure are users ones that I need to work out.

Hopefully I can work them out soon, so I can start using Ecto to maintain my blog. [posted with ecto]