Offline Blog Editor is very exciting, because we can prepare and write a post at the moment there is no internet connection. This gives the freedom and convenience plus a lot of advantages that are not owned by an online editor built-in.
Here is some free offline blog editor you can consider.
1. Windows Live Writer
Writer makes it easy to share your photos and videos on almost any blog service : Windows Live, Wordpress, Blogger, LiveJournal, TypePad, and many more.
Feature :
- Crop and tilt photos
- Insert multiple photos
- Toolbar alignment commands enabled for images
- Insert and publish video to YouTube
- Additional spell checking languages: Arabic, Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, English (Australia), Estonian, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Turkish, and Ukrainian
- Server-side tagging (for supported blogs)
- Type-down filtering in the Open dialog
- Twitter, Digg and Flickr Plug-ins
- Improved blog account setup
- Improved category control: adding categories, type-down filtering
- Tabbed view switching
- AutoLink glossary
- Smart quotes/typographic characters
- Word count
- Support for bidirectional languages (like Hebrew and Arabic)
- Tabs for view switching
- Updated look and feel
Download Windows Live Writer
2. Post2Blog
Post2Blog is a desktop blogging client that provides the easy way to compose and add new posts (even if you are offline), helps to manage and edit existing posts in your blogs. Provides integration with Word, Internet Explorer and Firefox
Feature :
- Manage different types of blogs using one single editor (Blogger, WordPress, Typepad, MovableType, LiveJournal, Blogware etc);
- Use visual HTML rich-text editor with hot-keys support to compose new posts or edit recent posts
- Upload images and files automatically (you can select to upload to free image hosting services, to FTP or to blog file storage area);
- Select text and/or images on any web-page and post selection to your blog with only 2 clicks using plugins for Firefox (check example) and Internet Explorer (check example);
- Add new posts directly from MS Word using Post2Blog toolbar for MS Word;
- Post files, images, documents from Explorer or any other program to using "Send To -> Post2Blog" command;
- Add Technorati, Del.icio.us, Buzzwords, 43 Things tags to your posts;
- Automatically send trackbacks, ping web-services to notify about updates in your blogs;
- Earn money using "Insert Amazon Link" feature;
- Use built-in smiles in your posts;
- Insert Chitika and Adsense code directly into your posts;
Download Post2Blog
3. w.bloggar
The w.bloggar is an application that acts as an interface between the user and one or more blog(s); in other words, it is a Post and Template editor, with several features and resources that the browser based blog editors do not offer. w.bloggar supports several blog tools and services : Blogger, MSN Spaces, TypePad, Blogalia and many more.
Feature :
- Post and Publish on most blogs/cms tools and services
- Edit Posts and Templates
- Save Posts locally for further publishing
- Import Text files
- Add links and images
- Format text font and alignment
- Multiple accounts and blogs
- Post preview
- Colorized HTML code
- HTML tags menu
- Find/Replace option
- Post to many blogs
- Title and Category Fields
- Spell Checking
- File and Image Upload
- Custom Tags Menu
Download w.bloggar
4. Qumana
You don't need to know a thing about HTML code to make perfect posts. Write your posts at your own pace without having to be online. Wordpress, Blogger, LiveJournal, TypePad, Drupal and many more
Feature :
- WYSIWYG editor, as easy as email
- Clean interface with easy-to-understand buttons
- Spell check with 'as you type' option
- Insert keyword ads in one click, with preview - make money easily
- Technorati tagging
- Customize ad design
- Source view option to edit HTML
- Save posts as drafts, or edit old posts, from the Blog Manager
- Easy image uploads and image alignment
- DropPad - gather links, text, and pictures by dragging them to a desktop pad
- Offline editing
- Multi-window editing
- Seamless posting and cross-posting
- Trackback & pinging
Download Qumana
5. BlogDesk
Blogging should be simple, but it gets complicated and time-consuming if you are serious about it. BlogDesk makes it easy to write, speeds up lavish processes and assists the author with smart features. BlogDesk can access all systems and hoster that support the MetaweblogAPI orMovableType interface. These are e.g. WordPress, ExpressionEngine, MovableType,Drupal, Serendipity, dasBlog and Blojsom as well as the hoster Blogg.de, Myblogand Twoday.net.
Feature :
- User friendly interface that is suitable for beginners
- WYSIWYG Editor is used instead of HTML tag editor
- Inserting image into blog entry is made easy. You are not required to upload the image to the directory through FTP. Blog Desk will upload the image into the appropriate directory.
- You don’t need an internet connection to compose a post. However, internet connection is required to publish the post.
- BlogDesk features a spellchecker that supports 14 languages.
- The Notebook, Frequently-Used-Phrases and the Technorati-Tags-Generator prevents you from performing repetitive tasks.
- Allows you to publish an entry to several blogs that are located on different servers with one click.
- Copies of the original blog entries are saved on your local computer.
