05/04/2023
Okay, this is my first blog post using Sparkle.
There's something insulting about a website editor nowadays that isn't WYSIWYG. The weird thing about the last application I tried -- Everweb -- is that the regular pages appeared to be edited in a WYSIWYG fashion, but the blog pages used a text editor plus a preview pane.
Rapidweaver was also mainly a text editor in its blogging module, but you had to use a separate previewer to see what it looked like.
Sandvox was a very nice WYSIWYG blog editor. It, too, had some tasteful templates, and the blog page editor was WYSIWYG while still being easy to use as a text editor or word processor. Unfortunately, Karelia went defunct. The website is up, but no support or other communication is forthcoming.
Apple's iWeb, in its day, was almost everything I wanted in a website and blog editor. It was true WYSIWYG. I had strong control over all the formatting. Blog pages were automatically formatted according to the blog template in use, but individual pages could also be easily reformatted. The templates themselves were very tasteful, in the best spirit of Apple design. The only problem with iWeb was that, when a blog got too large, the application tended to bog down. And then Apple stopped supporting it.
Sparkle is gratifyingly WYSIWYG. If anything, there might be too much control of formatting and layout, but I'd rather have too much than none at all.