I wondered if Mom and Carol would find using a blog client easier than having to remember how to login, write an article and publish it.<\/p>\n
I can already tell this would help Carol, because you don’t have to remember to double-return between paragraphs. Now…. let me test a photo. I see a little button at the top in the toolbar called Media. I just created a snapshot of the toolbar. Let’s see i I can put it in this article by clicking on Media:<\/p>\n
![\"mars-edit-toolbar.png\"](\"\/jeb\/files\/mt\/2010\/mars-edit-toolbar.png\")
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Well that was easy. I just chose the toolbox image I had saved on my desktop. There was a field I had to fill out called “Section”. Not sure what that was for, I typed “2010”. I’m going to hit publish now and see where that picture goes. Then I’ll come back and edit this some more and publish again.<\/p>\n
Be right back…. clicking on that “Send to Blog” button up there….<\/p>\n
OK… I’m back. That worked great, although I can see I had several type-o’s. The errors were spelled correctly, so MarsEdit didn’t help me avoid that.<\/p>\n
Looks like the “Section” means what directory do you want the image stored in. I’ve started storing images in a root directory with the year. That seems like a good way to keep a bunch of photos and images grouped instead of having them all go in a bunch of spread out months. So the path to the image above is: \/2010\/mars-edit-toolbar.png.<\/p>\n
I see I can also insert an image by using a link to somewhere else on the internet. Let’s test an image from my Skitch library. Clicking on Media again…<\/p>\n
Well it wasn’t there. Right-clicking and choosing Format… Image from link…<\/p>\n
![\"20100310-xuwc8qk98e1g7p989gkhbbdwu6.medium.jpg\"](\"http:\/\/img.skitch.com\/20100310-xuwc8qk98e1g7p989gkhbbdwu6.medium.jpg\")
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That worked. Carl from “Up” showed up. I don’t see how I can make him smaller and have a pop-up though. So Carl is not going to end up being an image on my blog, rather I am just showing an image from another server, in this case Skitch.com.<\/p>\n
And here’s one from facebook:<\/p>\n
![\"41649_5617390_8125240_n.jpg\"](\"http:\/\/profile.ak.fbcdn.net\/hprofile-ak-snc4\/hs352.snc4\/41649_5617390_8125240_n.jpg\")
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So that’s MarsEdit. But it runs on a Mac. Need to look into options for Windows.<\/p>\n
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Posting a blog entry can be a little too complicated, especially if you want to include some formatting, a table, or a photo. The built-in editors have gotten friendlier, but you still have to deal with some technical issues. That’s … Continue reading