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Neville Hobson put me onto this and I have to say I am extremely impressed.
“I love it!”
Lee
Everything you could want in a blogging tool is here:
- offline creation – with all WordPress categories in place
- create tags for all the main tagging tools
- easily add photos and position them where you want them
- simply add captions to your photos
- generate pull quotes so easily it hurts!
- Manage font size, colour, etc even when you have style sheets
Strikethroughs, highlights, blockquotes — all here- Tables — a breeze
- Trackbacks — couldn’t be simpler
- Switch between Design and Code views to tweak a bit of html — too easy for words
Downside
So then, what’s the downside?
The cost. I have no problem paying $50 for a blogging tool that would allow me to manage my two blogs — this one and my ‘Talking with Geeks‘ blog — but shelling out $99 is a bit steep.
The current introductory pricing model for RocketPost has the 1-blog model selling for $37. I have two blogs, therefore if I bought two 1-blog licences I could theoretically cover my two blogs for less than the official $99, 2-or-more blog version.
If they could change their pricing model to reflect the fact that the majority of us are ’semi-light’ bloggers and only run two blogs then I would be happier. Those who make more time available for the demands of blogging and thus run several blogs would be best served by the $99 model.
But for me and I would guess many of the readers of this blog $99 to run two blogs is a bit steep — especially when, in their ‘reasons why you should buy this software’ they say they are priced “like professional tools such as Microsoft Word and FrontPage”. That scares me off — Microsoft’s html code has always been bloated and problem-causing. Professional ‘html-ers’, in the majority of cases, use tools like Dreamweaver and run screaming/laughing from Microsoft html products.
Let’s hope that sanity and an understanding of the market prevails and RocketPost is priced more competitively, even against itself!
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