Google Blogger is quite good to write posts in, but occasionally the editor seems to lose the plot and I can't get it to format the post how I want it to.
In these cases I can go and edit the HTML code in the post. I am by no means an expert in HTML, but I do know my way around simple stuff.
The first view of the HTML code is horrendous, but there is a button to "format html" which makes it readable.
It does seem to have a habit of leaving empty <div>s around which can be deleted. Also unwanted <div>s changing the line spacing which can be replaced by a simple <p>
But, if the compose view looks OK I generally don't touch the HTML. If it looks wrong then it's usually only a few minutes to correct it - after a bit of practice.
There does not seem to be a button to place a horizontal line, so the only way is to add a <hr> in HTML view.
But the editor is still better than the Wordpress one, which seems to abhor a <br clear="all"> statement and simply deletes it.
Curiously editing Blogger is different in Safari and Firefox! I thought I was doing a lot of typos in Safari but when I looked more closely it seems to be some sort of problem with the auto-correct which adds in the suggestion as well as my typing. So I just get jibbereish. Also <shift> and <return> generates a line break, or <br> in Firefox but not in Safari. Weird.
Microsoft Expression Web 4 was much better to use, or even Frontpage. But they won't run on a MacBook.
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