Drivel is a GNOME client for working with online journals, also known as weblogs or simply blogs. It retains a simple and elegant design while providing many powerful features.
Drivel Features
Support for LiveJournal, Blogger, MovableType, Advogato, and Atom journals (systems based off these are also supported,
including WordPress and Drupal)
The ability to post, edit, delete, and view recent entries
Integrated spellchecking and HTML syntax highlighting
Offline composition and editing
Automatic recovery in the event of a crash
Journal system extensions, including LiveJournal security groups and MovableType categories
Install Drivel in Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install drivel
This will complete the installation
Now if you want to open drivel go to Applications—>Internet—>Drivel Journal Editor you can see this in the following screen
Once it open drivel you should see the following screen here you need to select the username,password,journal type and server address
Here you can select the available journal types by selecting drop down box you can see in the following screen
If you want to blog wordpress or Drupal you need to select MovableType as the Journal Type and enter the server address.For wordpress blogging you need to add xmlrpc.php at the end of your blog address.
In this example i am using livejournal login details you can see this in the following screen and click on login
Once you logged in to livejournal you can see the following screen here you can add your content to your blog
If you click on show more options at the bottom of the window you should see the following screen
Now we will post our first post to my livejournal enter all the details and click on post
Drivel Version Details
Now we will see each tool bar options available for drivel Journal Editor
Drivel Journal Options you can see in the following screen
Drivel Edit Options you can see in the following screen like clear entry,last entry,friends etc
If you select Preferences option from edit you should see the following screen
Drivel View Options you can see in the following screen like Highlight spelling errors,Highlight HTML
Drivel Format Options you can see in the following screen like selecting fornt type,insert image,insert link etc
Drivel Web Links Options you can see in the following screen like recent entries,calender view etc
