Are you frustrated with your blogging platform’s cluttered interface? Try John O’Nolan’s Ghost platform
The sexy new blogging platform brought to you by the former deputy of the user interface team at Wordpress has smashed its initial funding target of £25k on Kickstarter in London after just two days of funding, and John O’Nolan, the man behind the Ghost platform, has announced some exciting stretch goals after changing the target to £250k — ten times the initial figure .
As Wordpress has ‘grown up’ and shifted its focus towards hosting websites and content management, it is no longer just a blogging platform, according to O’Nolan, which is exactly what he wants to create with Ghost– just a blogging platform.
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Intuitive interface
Ghost uses an intuitive writing screen with your markdown on the left and a preview on the right, so you are unburdened by extra tabs and formatting buttons, and Ghost also lets you browse and preview your posts all on the same screen, just like you would with your emails.
Clean Layout
Ghost’s dashboard displays all your stats and notifications on one customisable screen.
Open Source
Ghost is open source so you can write your own themes and plug-ins, and is built using responsive design so you can have full functionality on any device.
The major blogging platforms often try to do too much, and suffer as a result from clutter and over complicated user interfaces. A clean blogging interface will be welcomed by many, and if Ghost can deliver on its promises without over-complicating things, it will be the platform that the blogospere has been waiting for.