Dion Moult Seriously who ever reads this description.

p. says: (3 September 2010)

The only aspect in Blogilo that I could detect was the grey colour scheme. How innately dull it is!

Having said that, the set up seems rather user-friendly. Simple.

Dion Moult says: (4 September 2010)

The grey colourscheme is based on my KDE colourscheme settings so that’s irrelevant ;)

As for user-friendly, it’s definitely easy to use, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a polished design. Allow me to throw some questions:

Why, when the window is resized so small, is almost a third of my space taken up by a “media list”, of which I will only access whenever I want to add/edit pictures in a blog post? It would be better for this to be removed and perhaps sent to the sidebar. This strengthens the focus on the post itself, as well as makes the app still usable when resized like above.
The “close tab” button is stuck-on almost without thought on the right. Perhaps we should offer a “close tab” button on the tab itself instead of having to navigate to the opposite end of the screen.
We also see the title twice – once in the tab and another time in the field … directly below it. Is there a way to merge these appearances? Do we even need tabs in the first place? Tabs were built to quickly view available content and switch between them with ease, but how often is the user going to be switching between posts? I know I don’t jump from post to post when drafting an article and I doubt anybody drafts several at once. (tabs inside tabs is rarely a good design decision)
In the “blog posts” list on the right, there is no clear sign that it is a list. There are zebra stripes between items but the colour is much too faint to be easily seen. This gives the impression of a “wall of text” instead of a list you could easily skim over.
Again on the list, notice the “Ma” post is in blue. What does blue mean? Why are the rest black? Perhaps a small icon would be better in communicating the differences in status.
Below the list we have 3 buttons – none of which are immediately clear what they do. Only the “minus” button on the right is somewhat clear, remove post (yet even this is not standardised with other “delete” buttons in KDE). The other buttons are a mystery. Why is there a separator between the second and third buttons? What reasoning is there behind it?
Also, while I am writing a blog post, it would make sense that the priority should be on two things, the post itself and its related options. Then shouldn’t “post options” be the default panel instead of being minimised? Managing blog posts should be shifted down.
Why is there a separation between online blog posts and local entries? This is a nuisance to navigate between two different lists of posts. They should be merged into one list and have status icons (see above) to distinguish the differences between them.

So yeah, design polish is something that too many people don’t realise is so important. It’s something everybody appreciates but nobody actually notices.