Background
Back in the mists of time I used to write my own web pages in a simple text
editor then upload them to a web server by
FTP. Later
I graduated to a more complex editor and added
CSS to my repertoire.
None of this was really required when I started blogging in 2007 with Blogger.
However, I began to find Blogger's
WYSIWYG editor
increasingly difficult to control. I switched to editing the "raw" HTML to get
a consistent look.
Until recently, I would write a blog item directly in Blogger's HTML editor. I
only switched to the WYSIWYG view for spell checking and final proof reading.
Speed, or rather the lack of it, kills
At the beginning of this year I became increasingly frustrated with Blogger's
HTML editor. Not because it's a bad editor, I actually really like it, but
because it distracts me.
I get tied up with HTML tags rather than writing. To speed things up I have
some keyboard shortcuts that add paragraph tags and the like. Despite this,
writing was still slower than I'd like.