Qumana

At Gnomedex, I’d talked with Fred Fabro, president and CEO of Vancouver-based Qumana. We talked training stuff but Fred’s company was selling some blogging tool I didn’t quite understand. Today I came upon Qumana while searching Del.icio.us for a tool to streamline by blog-posting, and I didn’t realize it came from the same place until just now. (This is my first entry using Qumana.)

I love WordPress for blogging except for the somewhat funky input screen. Every now and then I’d push the wrong button after entering HTML and lose edits. Also,  WordPress sometimes wanted to show me who’s boss by inserting extra tags into my posts or refusing to accept lines of scripts it deemed inappropriate.

Here’s the default screen. I just grabbed it with the PrintScreen key, resized it with my photo editor, and uploaded it with Qumana. I’m a very visual blogger. Qumana has already won my heart. It’s going to save me hours of uploading and then keying in URLs of pictures.

It’s also a snap to switch from WYSIWYG to Source and back to WYSIWYG. There’s a spell-check built in. I am loving this.

I suppose I should see what this post looks like before gushing on.

(Fingers crossed.)

… Later. That not only worked. It also makes corrects a breeze. This is a dynamite product. (Did I mention that it’s free?)