Two Tools Every Online Marketer and Blogger Can Use

May 30th, 2008, 7:02 am Admin blogging, internet marketing, internet tools, software

I recently ran across two tools that I found quite handy for most any online marketer, and especially bloggers. As you may know, I’m a big fan of tools that make it easier for me to work online and review many applications and scripts that can save me time and money.

The first is a desktop blogger.

It allows you to post to any blog from a software application on your desk. This is really handy if you’re like me and have dozens of blogs you post to regularly and want to have one place you can blog from. The software is especially handy when you get an idea and don’t want to find the blog login screen (or don’t have time) to get the post started. Just pop up this application, start typing, select the blog you want to post to and save it. You can come back to it at any time, edit, add photos, links, and has complete formatting… just like you’re writing a post in WordPress or other blogging platform.

Import your categories once and then select which ones apply to each post before you publish it.

Another neat feature is that you can publish one post to many blogs at the same time, and select different categories to assign to that post in each blog.

You can edit previous posts, create templates to make it easier to write posts quickly, use a built-in notebook for saving ideas, a technorati-like tag generator, frequently used phrase feature, spell check and more that I probably haven’t tried yet. It also supports the new tagging feature in the latest version of WP.

I’m using the application to make this post and have found it to work flawlessly and much more conveniently than logging in to the WP dashboard each time I have an idea for a post. It’s lite and easy to use.

Surprisingly, this software is completely free for personal and commercial use. You can download it at www.blogdesk.org.

The second tool is a combination browser and web site designer (HTML editor).

It’s one of the better WYSIWYG HTML editors I’ve used and can create most any type of web site.

The way this software works is that you can visit any web site (or pull a page off your hard drive) and then edit it in the WYSIWYG editor (you can also view and edit the source HTML code as well for those experienced or wanting to hand code).

You can also create a new page from scratch using the simple editing tools. Just use it like a word processor and you can create anything from simple to sophisticated web sites.

This is a great tool for those without HTML experience that want to create web pages and sites… and a handy tool for those experienced coders that want an easy to use tool to create any kind of web page. Even though I own Dreamweaver and other higher end editors, I’ve found this to be an easier and faster way to edit and create pages. The only downside I’ve run into is on pages that have extensive Javascript and or PHP coding, they sometimes don’t run properly after being edited. This is rare, but something to let you know about. But for straightforward WYSIWYG and HTML code editing, this editor has been a blessing.

The editor is included with a full Mozilla-based browser, which I found very light, fast and works on every page I’ve viewed. With other browsers growing in size and complexity with every release, this is a welcome alternative for fast browsing with many of the same features of IE and Firefox including tabs, downloads, security and more.

And for the price? It’s a free, community developed and supported application. A real treat for those looking for an alternative to high priced WYSIWYG editors.

You can download SeaMonkey Project at www.SeaMonkey-Project.org

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To your best success!

Mark
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