Then I discovered Adobe Contribute, which apparently started life as Macromedia Contribute.įirst things first, Contribute is expensive compared to the other two products. There are a couple other commercial options such as Blogo and Ecto, but let’s just say their online presence just doesn’t fill me with a ton of optimism. So I figured it was either MarsEdit ( which I may still buy ) or reboot to use Windows Live Writer ( not a great option ). There are a couple open source cross-platform options, but they all seem pretty much terrible. If it had good source code pasting options and better image formatting, I would have purchased already.Īt the end of the day, I was resigning myself to having to work in Windows only, which is certainly unfortunate. It’s a great little product, but the limitations make me a bit hesitant to pull the trigger. None of those is a deal breaker, but all of them make the experience slightly worse than Live Writer, to the point when I needed to do code related blogs, I rebooted in to Windows to use Live Writer. The picture formatting tools are primitive to nonexistent, it’s hard to format source code ( something of key importance to me ), it didn’t do site preview all that well ( although frankly, neither did Live Writer, at least with my site ) and it didn’t support tags. On the other hand, some things were a bit unwieldy too. It was like when you write with a quality pen, the actual experience itself is just better. It was a very pleasant writing experience, if that makes any sense. It came with a 30 day trial and my final verdict was a bit mixed. A month ago I started looking for a Mac based alternative to the excellent Windows Live Writer and thought I may have found one in the form of MarsEdit.
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