Ever since purchasing my iMac several months ago, I've been searching for decent OS X desktop blogging software. After test driving several of the products on the market, including both MarsEdit and ecto, I have yet to find anything that I like as much as good old Windows Live Writer. So, I'm going to keep using WLW. I just got it running in "Unity" mode under VMware Fusion on my iMac. So, now, it appears on my dock right next to all my other favorite programs. Yeah!
About once a year, or so, I redo the family web site. It gives me a chance to pretend I still write web code. And, it keeps me off of World of Warcraft, of which Jill is not so fond.
Now that we're at home with the twins, I thought this would be a perfect time to update the family site. But, frankly, I wasn't looking forward to it. I'd been using Telligent's Community Server. And, while it worked. It sure seemed like overkill. And, skinning the site wasn't exactly easy. To get the look and feel I wanted, I was about to make the switch to Wordpress.
So, I was pleasantly surprised when I stumbled on Telligent's new GraffitiCMS - a product built for small sites with a focus on blogging. And, now that the transformation is nearly complete, I can heartily recommend Graffiti. It does everything I need out of a content management / blogging engine. And, it's extremely simple to setup and use. Graffiti's mix of ASP.NET, simplicity, and the very cool Chalk templating language kept me from having to learn everything from the ground up. Kudos to the Graffiti team for an excellent product!