Details about Windows Live Writer

After two weeks of using Live Writer I still think it’s one of the best tools ever (ok, right behind ACDSee products!). This has made blogging so easy. And your feedback was phenomenal! Up to that time I had been religiously keeping up to replying to comments … but that post max’ed our reader stats & I was deluged with great comments & requests for troubleshooting it. So I wanted to do a follow up for everyone’s benefit. First of all thank you to our readers! I so appreciate your requests for new app’s & I love searching them out & trying them. And of course we appreciate the comments!

Windows Live Writer is a beta & they have a support forum.

Some issues that came to light are:

• images aren’t supported on blogspot - blogger has an API restriction (meaning that they’re not allowing outside sources to upload images)
• images can’t be uploaded to secure ftp’s
• posting at future time isn’t working for someone, but I haven’t tested that

Overall people love the flexibility it offers & the broad range of text & image options. (I forget to use color). I’ve also been using it to compose our newsletters & then I copy & paste them into the newsletter software. It saves my draft so easily & I don’t need to browse to a file, open it, etc. Am I lazy or what?!

I want to share some of it’s features that I’m using:

• Categories can be assigned from within Live Writer
  • It learns them from your blog!
• Live Writer can be set to prompt you for Categories
  • under Tools | Options | Preferences

• Live Writer will Ping Servers for you. This means that it’s letting various sites know that you have a new or updated post.
  • Wikipedia has a list (& explanation) & I copied & pasted them in, then deleted the asterisks (not worrying about the formatting - that was fixed when I clicked on Apply)
  • under Tools | Options | Ping Servers

Have you tried any of the plug-in’s? Please share which ones you’re finding helpful. I want to get the ’snipping’ one. Do you have any other comments or issues about Live Writer?

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