Just downloaded Windows Live Writer (Beta). Allows desktop editing and publishing to most blog platforms (with the notable exception of Google’s Blogger). I’m using it to publish to a wordpress.com hosted blog. For my Blooger blogs I’ll continue to use Google’s MS Word add-in.
Allows several views while editing;
- normal (basic text editor style)
- web layout (as rendered web page without blog’s style)
- web preview (using the blog’s template and css)
- and pure HTML code.
Usual editor stuff, spell checker, formatting options, insert images etc. and a very nice insert a windows live map option. Overall, it’s good, pity about the lack of Blogger support (could be put down to Google’s use of the ATOM Publishing API but I think there’s a less technical reason for the omission), but it’s free and it works. Another step on the road to a more user friendly web.
UPDATE: I’ve managed to post to Blogger ! Was getting a error when publishing but I tried again and it works.
