How to Blog With Flock
Flock is the name of a browser based on Mozilla Firefox. Even the source code is still using Firefox’s. However, Flock has many features that the usual Firefox have. Flock has the ability to create a blog page. Yes, I know, many applications can do the same thing. But only some of them equipped with image uploader, e.g., Microsoft Word 2007’s Blog post. Flock have both the blog post creator with WYSIWYG editor as well as an image uploader integrated to Photobucket or Flickr album. You don’t have to open your photobucket account to upload many images and enter the url from your computer one by one. Flock provides batch upload tool as simple as drag and drop. You can quickly input your image after you upload it. Here are the steps:
First Step: Configure your blog account.
Here is how you configure your blog account, simply log in into your blog account and Flock will remember it in the “My World” page. My World page is a page created by Flock to display your accounts information, favorites, RSS, and other Flock features. After you logged in to your blog account, you can access the Blog Post creator. Click the blue feather icon to enter the Blog Post.
Second Step: Configure your image host account.
The image hosts available for Flock are Flickr and Photobucket. Simply logged in to either one of them so that Flock will remember it in the My World page. If Flock hasn’t remembered it, just log out and log in again. After logging in, enter the image uploader by clicking the upward arrow in the tools. You can either upload it in single or batch upload.
Third Step: Begin writing a blog
To begin blogging, you must configure which blog you are going to use. For example you are logged in using one Blogspot account which consist of many blogs. Flock will prompt you to choose which blog you are going to post. Flock only remind you once, at the first time you use Flock’s Blog creator. If you need to change your blog, press the Configure button or access the Tools menu.
Fourth Step: Putting images inside your blog post
Here, you can input your images from the Media bar. Media bar is Flock’s feature to display your most recent uploaded media. It can be picture or even video (Flock’s also support YouTube account, however, not for uploading, only for viewing). To input your image, you need the image’s URL. To get it, simply right-click at the picture inside the media bar to get it’s URL. There are choices of customized URLs, pick the one which is only representing the actual file for the image. Press the Image tool to insert an image (it can only be viewed in the Editor mode), then paste it into URL field. You can arrange the alignment of the image to the text.
Fifth Step: Publish the post
To publish, simply click the publish button and the Blog Creator will closed. Don’t forget to input the Post Tag for better SEO and categorization. Simple, isn’t? This post itself was made with Flock. Make sure you know what you are posting, because the result might not be as good as you demand.
Blogged with Flock