What is Project Hephaestus?
So what is Project Hephaestus (or PH for short)? To make a long post short, it is a project that aims to create a user-friendly, yet very powerful desktop blogging client.
That doesn't help. Let's go into more detail:
- A project
- This will take some time to complete.
- This is my first programming project on such a large scale.
- User Friendly
- The target audience is the average person who doesn't know HTML but wants to be published online via a blog.
- The user will be able to pick up the application and start using it almost immediately, with minimal hassle.
- Powerful
- Even though all the back-breaking labor is hidden from the average user, a more advanced user should be able to tune the software to his or her needs.
- Desktop
- Web applications are great and all, but we seriously need some good desktop applications!
- Because this application is not accessed through a web client, the user need not be connected to the internet to create and edit posts.
- Blogging Client
- Access and manage all your blogs, and create and edit posts, all from the sanctity of your desktop
Yes, there is indeed a great deal of effort involved in this, but I plan to see this project to the very end. But enough talk. In case you're wondering what this fancy little application looks like (after all, a picture is worth a thousand words), look no further:
Oh, and I made contact with Blogger.com last night using the application. I am well on my way to my first post using PH!
- posted by Avik Das
- on Tuesday, March 07, 2006
- at 10:08 PM
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