#Using drupal with marsedit pro#
#Using drupal with marsedit Offline#

Ecto still “just works” with my Drupal site, now using Drupal 6.1. This was the one that I chose over Windows Live Writer in my last review so long ago and I chose it because it actually worked with my Drupal site while WLW didn’t at the time. In this corner we have Ecto ($17.95), which is available for both Mac and Windows. post stuff correctly to my Drupal 6 site. Aside from these meager requirements, it of course needs to just work, i.e. It would be lovely if I can add tags from the client but it won’t break me if I can’t – I’m not a tag whore and all of my common ones already exist. My only last must-have is that I can see my terms and freetags to categorize posts properly. Occasionally I also add images to my posts but I don’t use Flickr and so if the client can upload the image to the right place on the server and make the right img tag, then I’m in heaven. All I need is something that lets me type HTML with some nice tag helpers for things like links and lists which are tedious to type out every frickity time. I don’t do much fancy stuff in my posts and I’m not a fan of the WYSIWYG. I’ve written a few posts using both of them and while not an extensive test, it let me get comfortable enough to decide. I suspect this because I’ve downloaded Ecto and MarsEdit to give ’em a spin and see if I can get something that just makes it easy for me to type and post at long last. Maybe someday it will magically start working for me but I suspect I will be using a full-blown client by then. The random times I’ve tried to set it up I always have some sort of connection issue and it simply doesn’t work for me to post directly from Textmate. Yes, Textmate has a blogging bundle and no, it doesn’t work for me for some reason. I’m an old-skool, text kinda gal and I love me some Textmate so I have mainly been composing my posts there and then doing copy/paste into the browser when I’m ready.

#Using drupal with marsedit Offline#

I find I prefer to keep a draft around and tweak it before publishing and I travel quite a bit so offline writing is common for me. I’m finally getting back to more consistent posts and composing in the browser is really starting to bug me again.

I wasn’t blogging much and it dropped even more for much of the last year so I hadn’t even installed a blogging client on the MBP.

#Using drupal with marsedit pro#

That happened to be shortly before I bought my MacBook Pro and so I never really kept playing with them. A year and a half ago I was playing around with blogging clients on Windows.