Archive for February 18th, 2006

Blog Software for my Mother

Saturday, February 18th, 2006

So, this isn’t one of those theoretical ‘easy enough for your mother to use’ questions.

My Mother wants to have a blog. She wants to post pictures of her quilts and stuff like that. (Yes, she is a quilter!)

So, I have looked at setting up Wordpress, or another instance of Typo for her, and that is the easy part.

What I really want is a WYSIWYG desktop editor for her. So she can insert pictures, and do all the stuff like she is used to in Windows Applications, press publish, and a whole bunch of magic happens.

I personally use Ecto on my mac, and love it. If she had a Mac, I would buy Ecto for her too. Damn, if she only had a Mac, it could integrate with iPhoto and iWeb and it would be so much easier. Maybe I will just drop-ship her a Intel mac mini, when they come out with one.

Does anyone have any recommendations on either a hosted service, or a windows desktop application that makes it damn simple to make blog posts with images?