BlogSchlager WebTech

Here is my evaluation of a new version of the Blogsy editor for multi-platform blog authoring and administration. First off Blogsy has an awesome interface, the buttons are obvious and it only took a quick glance to get this app. The editor window in rich text mode is really nicely done. The default font is about perfect for the iPad.

Images are a bit more tricky but with just a little practice it becomes pretty intuitive. The first thing you have to get used to is that you don’t insert the image into the paragraph like you would do with most WYSIWYG editors. Now on first glance you might think that this would be awkward but in fact it works better the way that Blogsy has implemented it. So you insert an image between the paragraphs, above the paragraph that you want it to appear in and then you select the image and align it. So far it has been flawless and what I like about this method of image handling is that you don’t have the frustration of trying to hold and drag an image into a paragraph and having the text sliding all over the place. I have often had to flip other editors into HTML mode and manually code my image position or at least have to add padding (a gutter) around the image. So A+ on images.

So now it is time to try publishing my article. I have already setup my BlogSchlager WebTech blog credentials so let’s go!

Houston, we have a problem. I am finishing this post up on my MacBook in the native WordPress 3.3 editor. Blogsy has some serious bugs when it comes to adding images to a WordPress 3.3 install. Everything was awesome until I hit the publish button, and everything went pear-shaped. I spent the last half hour trying various things to get Blogsy to correctly display an image to no avail. Ugh, I really do hate it when things like this happen, because I actually do route for the apps I evaluate.

But the Blogsy editor could not get the image code to work on WordPress 3.3, all I could get was a broken div, no opening < anywhere I stuck an image. I tried, left and right alignment, no alignment but nothing worked, so I switched to HTML mode in Blogsy and had all the code correct, pushed publish and got the same messed up div and junk. I added a screen grab from my blog to the left.

So much promise
I really hope that the developers of Blogsy are working on this because I really do like what they are doing and I definitely will look forward to future updates to see if they get the WP 3.3 bugs fixed.

For now I cannot recommend Blogsy but I reserve the right to change my mind and I hope that the developers of Blogsy do get this app polished up, it would be a gem!