Qumana: Our test report

As promised we have tested Qumana a desktop blogging application. What better way to try it than create the post for our trials.

The Download/Installation
The download went well. Although at 4 MB at first glance it seemed a little heavy.

Configuring Publishers/Server Admin

This was fairly intuitive and our tests with Blogger login seemed to confirm good API integration with the Google service. Enter your blogger user name and password, test the connection and then...

Select a Blog

We were delighted to see all of the Blogs associated with our Blogger account.

Select the blog you want to publish to and then compose.

Composing your Post

A familiar Windows/Word/Outlook type toolbar is displayed. Interface is clean, all icons have tooltips. Includes spell check and thesaurus. Seems complete. Select POST and your done, almost.

After the post we looked at it and it needed some HTML tweeking.

Somethings we'd like to see

• Image upload integration - All the images have to be uploaded and the URL specified. For Blogger accounts we'd like to see Qumana tied in with Bloggers image facility.
• CSS template synch - While we were impressed with the ability to specify any font style on our local machine we'd much rather have seen the styles from Blogger that are applied to our template become the default to assist the user in maintaing the look and feel.

Overall Assesment
A good program to assist posting to a blog but, not ready for your CEO to start blogging. Considering the features we think it's a reasonable size download.

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