Windows Live Writer

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Windows Live Writer Beta is a desktop application that makes it easy to publish rich content to your blog.

Before installing Windows Live Writer Beta, please review the release notes.

• Compatible with your blog service

  Writer can publish to Windows Live Spaces, SharePoint, WordPress, Blogger, LiveJournal, TypePad, Moveable Type, Community Server, and many other weblog services.

• WYSIWYG editing

  Writer knows your blog's visual theme. So you can see exactly what your posts will look like as you write them, before you publish. No more wasting time previewing your posts online.

• Rich media publishing

  Writer makes publishing rich media as easy as sending e-mail. Insert and customize photos, maps, tags, and lots of other cool content—then click the “Publish” button. It’s that easy.

• Powerful editing features

  Creating compelling blog posts is much easier with the ability to insert and edit tables, check spelling as you type, and format and hyperlink content at your fingertips.

• Offline editing

  Now you can blog anytime, from anywhere. Writer synchronizes drafts on your blog with changes you make when you're offline, so you don't have to worry about reconciling different versions.

 

I have tried this application and found that it is pretty good.

There was a problem initially loading the configurations for my Blogger blogs, but this was due to the Writer's analysis of the blogs, their templates, styles, and formats. A current problem with the Writer is it may time out if there are several images in blog posts. I had just uploaded several images from an outing and it timed out a few times before loading it finally.

Something else I am going to have to see how works are images... The Writer gives only 2 options regarding images - do not upload them or upload to an FTP location. I'm not sure that is going to work with Blogger, so I may have to go back to uploading the images to Photobucket and linking to them from there.

I'll let you know how it goes.

(I'm posting this entry with the Writer)