- For creating Chess Diagrams, I have been using chessup.net. The website allows you to setup a board, change the colors as needed and then create an image that you can upload to your blog. It works great.
- Another way to create diagrams is to use a program called DiagTransfer. It is a native Windows program, but it works fine in Crossover Office. It allows you to add arrows and markers to a board. I still have not used it but when I get into describing a position more in depth I probably will use the arrows and markers.
- As for posting games, I have found pgn4web to be the best option. It will accept a PGN game as input and will create a board on the page to show that specific game.
- I use Blogger to host my blog. It works fairly well and is a common blogging platform that is well supported.
- Scribefire is a nice Firefox addon that allows one to write posts to multiple blogs. It is highly recommended and cross platform.
2010-07-02
Tools used for creating a chess blog
When I started my blog a few weeks ago I had a hard time finding good places to create board images and finding a way to share PGN games. Hopefully this post will help others who decide to create a chess blog. There are a good number of tools available and I have found these to be great.
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I have used and liked Chessflash for posting games.
ReplyDeleteI tried that but I did not like the idea of being dependent on Flash. Sometimes I run my browsers without Flash for security or other reasons, like getting frustrated with a Flash based site.
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