Windows-based weblog editor. Feature rich and ease of use especially for those who like the look and feel of a Windows-styled word processor like Microsoft Word. This is a great weblog editor when it performs right. I'll get to that in moment. For now, I'll talk about what I like. RocketPost prides itself of being a fat client that gives full online and offline control of your content development and management. For it's claim here I would most certainly agree. RocketPost allows you to create blog content for one or several blogs and allows you to fully manage that content in and organized manner. This isn't necessarily a novel feature and much of what RocketPost offers isn't necessarily new. But it's the execution of these features that makes the different for a blog content publishers using RocketPost. Environment can make a difference in motivation and the right tool makes a big difference in how stuff gets done and how often it gets done. It's the joy factor in doing something. RocketPost brings a level of joy to the blog publishers life.


Here is a quote for Anconia's website about their weblog editor tool, RocketPost:


RocketPost imports all your blog posts upon setup. It treats the posts on your PC as the primary version of your data, which enables lots of unique productivity features to speed up your blogging. Created by a former Microsoft Word® designer, it supports all your favorite word processing features and shortcuts so you can write faster.


RocketPost is the most comfortable writing environment for bloggers. And it's a single unified command center for all your blogs and blogging systems. RocketPost puts the blogger first.


RocketPost prides itself of being a fat client and full featured for the serious-minded bloggers. RocketPost has all the major formatting functions available from a toolbar with clearly identified buttons. It is a great thing to have all your major features a button click away. It saves time over having to search the menu bar if you're the type that doesn't bother with learning the shortcut keys. I especially like the Dropcaps and Pull Quotes buttons.I especially like the Dropcaps and Pull Quotes buttons.


What I didn't like however was the unexpected behavior of RocketPost. For example as I type my content I like to save the content just in case of a error on my system or an error by me. I can simply recover the content by using undo/redo and in the worst case just close the file and open it back up. Well with you press the "save" button in RocketPost there is no visual indicator that the content is saved. It seems the button doesn't work at all. The only way to save is the publish your content as a draft to your blog server or service. Doing this regularly allows you to save your content. I attempted to undo and redo changes that I typed or inserted with RocketPost tools and the undo/redo didn't work at all at times. At other times I removed too much content.


I actually lost two paragraphs of information by simple clicking the style button and then canceling the action. Because the save button didn't work and I didn't post the changes as a draft to my blog server, I had to rewrite the content from memory. Not good.I had to rewrite the content from memory. Not good. I also noticed that RocketPost tended to tie up the my CPU sometimes and performed sluggishing when executing formatting features like bold, italics and underline. Sometimes these formatting changes would carry over to the next line and since RocketPost doesn't give you a visual cue that formatting is turn on or off, it takes a button click or two with typing to make sure your formatting is off once turned on.


I will keep my on this as I'm running WindowsXP Pro SP2 with a 1.8GHz Intel processor and nearly a gig of RAM. This behavior wasn't consistent across the board. I only had a Firebox browser session going with an several processes running in my system tray. Nevertheless, my PC resources should be plenty to run this weblog editor without problems.


This is one the best tools I've used for publishing. The design ideas are right and even the execution of the features are fine. This weblog editor seems to have been around since about December 2005. They need to work out some the code and smoother and precise behavior but it's a very good start. I do think that this product is rather pricey. The is a single blog version priced at $37 and a version that allows you publish to and unlimited number of blogs for $99. $99 is a bit high given the unpredictable behavior I've experienced products features. The publisher considers this a high end productivity app and has thus priced it a such. There are more features available with this editor that would be welcomed by serious blog content publishers that time and space do not permit to document.


I do recommend that you visit Anconia and get your 30 day download and try it out for yourself. If this program plans to be around for awhile then the future for it is very bright indeed. Even with the unpredicable behavior I experienced I will continue to test this tool and as it improves will certainly add it to my toolbox. You should definitely give RocketPost a test drive.


View the RocketPost 2 minute demo.


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