Putting it all together
I was surprised when I could not find a good blogging client for Ubuntu. I was even more surprised that more than a few others had the same dilemma. And I was really surprised that others had the same solution - using Windows Live Writer. (Note to self - get a message to Simon Scullion about this post.)
Easy blogging from Linux is no longer an illusion. Now that I have found a good interface for using email, I can get back to regular blogging.
My new workflow is to start writing my blog; decide what picture or artwork complements the subject; launching the image in GIMP to size it and then with a single click, border it, shadow it, and save it. “Yes”, a single click. Thanks to Kevin Galligan over at bigheadco, I have a tweaked a macro to just “click and save”. My next trick is to make it work directly from Nautilus folder so I can just right-click an image and bingo-presto have a nicely sized / bordered / drop-shadow image for my post.
To get the right look, I format my email using “paragraph spacing”. This may not be necessary but it generates the most appropriate HTML. I have also added my blogging email address to my address book in Thunderbird and designated “HTML” as the preferred sending format. It may sound like a bunch of different steps but it is about 90% as easy as sending emails - and I send *lots* of emails !
If you want to see what the pre-post email looks like, click here.
