Talking Of Windows Live Writer 2009

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Which we weren’t. I just thought I’d mention that for the last week, I’ve been editing & publishing this blog using Windows Live Writer 2009 .

So far I’m liking it. I found the Blogger editor a bit clunky, the preview often didn’t actually show properly, the new Blogger editor if anything was a step back.

But as you can see, even the edit pane in Live Writer is pretty WYSIWYG.

I especially like the fact that you can get your hyperlinks to open in a new tab/window rather than forcing readers away from the page. ( You have to go into the HTML to do this in Blogger)

It’s very easy to set up, sucks your template off the web and away you go.

I should add a couple of things that I’m not so happy with are;

If you want a thumbnail to link to a larger version, It will upload the picture to your Picasa album. But if your picture is larger than say 600*600 it will automatically resize it to view. The Blogger does not do this and links to the original size. But if that's the case, you can edit the post in Live Writer, publish to DRAFT and then add the picture. Which is how I can do this. from a previous post or the picture above.

Using Live Writer the image comes out as this and you can’t see any of the detail I wanted to show.

You can’t as yet schedule posts, but you can publish to DRAFT in Blogger then go in a set the schedule time.

Not enormous mountains, I think you’ll agree.

I don’t know if it works in Wordpress, so sorry if it doesn’t.

But I think it’s helping give me a more consistent L&F

UPDATE: Sept 2010 Most of the stuff I moaned about above has now been fixed (except the scheduling)