"if you're doing text with an inline illustration or two, they make things harder."
Not in my case, for my workflow. I compose offline or take text and a list of photos via email from N, paste the text into the editor (which handles a reasonable subset of Markdown), then download the photos, re-size and edit if necessary, and upload them individually. I center all the images, between paragraphs, because that translates directly into the optimal mobile layout. N prefers to read and compose on her phone.
I tried to use a WYSIWYG page builder exactly once; I couldn't get drag-and-drop to do anything sensible, and it didn't understand markdown so I had to go back and format the text by hand. I tried fancy layouts a few times, and stopped when N reported that photos alongside text made the blog unreadable.
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"if you're doing text with an inline illustration or two, they make things harder."
Not in my case, for my workflow. I compose offline or take text and a list of photos via email from N, paste the text into the editor (which handles a reasonable subset of Markdown), then download the photos, re-size and edit if necessary, and upload them individually. I center all the images, between paragraphs, because that translates directly into the optimal mobile layout. N prefers to read and compose on her phone.
I tried to use a WYSIWYG page builder exactly once; I couldn't get drag-and-drop to do anything sensible, and it didn't understand markdown so I had to go back and format the text by hand. I tried fancy layouts a few times, and stopped when N reported that photos alongside text made the blog unreadable.