Zoho Writer

It's funny that the first time I tried to use Zoho there was something wrong with the site and I was denied access. Not a very good first impression, but it demonstrated very effectively the potential hang ups of web-based anything. I think web-based applications should have a place in an office because they make information so much more accessible. But I was also wondering how secure documents are in something like Zoho compared to being stored in your computer. However, as a public reference librarian, I wouldn't mind if more people used applications like Zoho just so I wouldn't have to deal with issues of converting Microsoft Works to Microsoft Word. After I was finally granted access, I played around with Zoho writer a little bit. I didn't find the interface to be particularly intuitive. When I would click on "export" the screen would automatically scroll to the left; thus I suppose hiding the "export" options. It would also do this with the email option. You could just see enough of the dialogue box to figure out what you were doing. I realize that it has more bells and whistles than Google Docs, but I find Docs to be much more user friendly, and I will continue to use it. I went back and tried to post my document to my blog, but it said my blog was unavailable- whatever that means. The "export" bug seemed to have worked itself out- just another web-based application glitch!