I’ve just read Usability and Blogging, an article about how badly designed are blogging interfaces. Looking for a better blogging system I was wondering if I was the only one complaining with blogging interfaces. I’m definitely not!

Blogger provides a quick way to publish blogs but writting articles in a text box in your Web browser is just pain in the ass. Modifying the look & feel of your site is even worse. No high level description of the structure, only a raw HTML page including CSS and custom tags.

Real editors like Emacs have taken years to mature and we found ourselves writing like in the early ages of computing? Maybe some Blog Web APIs will provide publishing from your favourite editor but for the moment, I think the Bloxsom approach is the best. It let you write blogs on simple text files with any editor and use them to generate your blog site. Of course, it’s not perfect since you have to be technically skilled to manage a full site. I’ve to think about moving…