Unless you are really HTML-savvy, writing articles directly using HTML is not ideal. First, you have to wrap the content properly with the tags in order to format it, and secondly you will have to go back and forth from your code editor to the browser to see how it looks.
If you are a frequent web writer, I think it's better for you to write using Markdown. Markdown allows you to write content in plain text that later can be translated into a valid HTML format, and with the help of a tool, you can instantly see the output.
markItUp! is a JavaScript plugin built on jQuery which can turn any textarea into fake "rich" markup editor for Textile, Markdown, BBcode, MediaWiki, Html, etc -- with built in AJAX preview...
Blogging, or more specifically writing, is a daily routine for us, here in hongkiat.com. In the process, we've accumulated a lot of resources that would be real helpful in jumpstarting one's blogging career. If you want to start writing your own blog, you can always check out the tons of materials we have on blogging, plus this amazing list of cheatsheets, infographics & resources you don't want to miss.
The cheatsheets here help you write and promote your content, understand how to work better with free blogging services such as WordPress, Blogger and Tumblr, and we also have cheatsheets on basic HTML, CSS and Markdown to help you create beautiful blog themes. Now, let's get started!
A Perl Module to convert HTML to any of the many pseudo-markups in use by wiki's and blogs, including Textile (see "Confluence") and Markdown, MediaWiki, UseMod, SnipSnap, MoinMoin, etc.
At first I thought this could be the "back" part of TIM, but after trying it out on even simple example text, I'm a bit dissapointed. The nested lists, images, and URLs seem broken (although the links at least, work in Confluence).
The worst problems are that it has no sense of %{style} span% or footnotes, and no concept AT ALL of tables. It would be nice to at least get the {style} -- and therefore the spans -- working.