Saturday 4 October 2008

Easy uploading of images in Blogger-Windows live blog writer

 

I was just searching to find out whether we have any options of easy image uploading in the blogger.As you know typing the blog and uploading the images in the blog is a very painful work than any thing.

Just have been searching   and found windows live blog writer reasonably suits to the easy image uploading feature also it helps as work in the  blogs offline and shall upload once we saved the documents.

The flexibility is more in uploading the images /objects into the blog.The basic question arises why bloggers doesn't have much flexibilty features I really don't know why?Also we can paste the pictures so easily.

There are good and bad and here listing a  some few bugs and its merits.

  • Hard as I tried, I was not able to get Windows Live Writer to update a post to reflect changes that I did online AFTER publishing a post using Windows Live Writer.

Dog rose leaves covered with frost in Sweden.

  • The ability to specify posting thumbnail vs. original image, the way Wordpress does it. I want a 9k thumbnail that can be clicked to show the 100k image, not a resized 100k image within every post.

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  • Earlier, Windows Live Writer is unable to download previous posts past the <!–more–> tag, which is very strange and effectively makes it useless for editing already published posts. It was fixed now.A humpback whale slapping the surface with its tail.
  • For such a foray into WYSIWYG blogging, I am stumped as to why there is no support for creating tables on the fly. I mean if I AM using a local client it might as well be powerful.
  • For posted images, Windows Live Writer creates its own folder structure within the Wordpress ‘Uploads’ folder. Which is okay, but I do wish that it stuck with the Wordpress folder structure instead. A lone oryx antelope.
  • I wish the program has more warning dialogs such as “you are about to delete this post; both local and published versions will be affected, are you sure you want to do this”. Or something like that. This is a big bug we couldn't delete the messages in local after posting
  • WYSIWIG (what you see is what you get). It will download your site’s CSS and is able to preview exactly what your post will look like when published. The editing interface looks really good and is very well designed.
  • Built in spelling checker. GreatA toucan perched on a branch in Brazil.
  • Instantly switch from normal view to the HTML code and to ‘web preview’.

 

  • Nice handling of images, including a slew of unexpected options such as the ability to rotate an image, adjusting brightness, setting height/width of an image and the margin around it (if any), as well as a handful of border styles. It seems that you can import more effects capabilities through downloadable plugins. Paradoxically, for all of this I was unable to tell the program to use a thumbnail instead of the

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      actual resized image, a glaring omission in my book.

 

  • Relatively small and non-bloated (yes this is Microsoft we’re talking about folks).  
  • Supports a wide range of blogging platforms including Windows Live spaces, Wordpress.com, Typepad, Livejournal, Movable Type, Wordpress custom installation, Radio Userland, Community server, Dasblog, Metaweblog API, Movable type API, and Blogger (Atom).
  • Allows you to either publish a posting or post-to-draft.
  • You can insert MS Live local maps straight from the interface. An interesting feature for some I’m sure (not so much for me).

It is really a good tool.This soft ware is free ..But Microsoft inherited problem that we would be opted to install some unwanted options as a part of this tool.Also it replaces your default search engine and replace it to Live search.Little careful while down loading.

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thanks for your feedback!

Just a few notes:

You can create a table by doing 'Insert Table...' from the sidebar or from the 'Insert' menu. Was this not working for you?

"The ability to specify posting thumbnail vs. original image, the way Wordpress does it. I want a 9k thumbnail that can be clicked to show the 100k image, not a resized 100k image within every post."

We do upload a thumbnail image. For example in your post you have the following image:
http://lh5.ggpht.com/michael.ashley300/SOegHk47HgI/AAAAAAAABGM/v3CGJpRqVME/Humpback%20Whale_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800
Which is ~17k and it links to:
http://lh4.ggpht.com/michael.ashley300/SOegF60pFMI/AAAAAAAABGI/Y2sI0-2EvKI/s1600-h/Humpback%20Whale%5B3%5D.jpg
Which is ~120k. But the ~120k picture is not actually in your post, it is only the click through image.


If you use the File > Open menu to open your post we should sync it with the server to get any changes you have made to the post outside of Windows Live Writer.

If you are having any problems with these features please feel free to send me an email.

bturner*AT*microsoft*DOT*com

Mike said...

Thank you very much for the suggestions and input Brandon.
1)I have tried using the table option which eased me the alignment problem for the pictures.
2)About the Thumbnail posting I still do a try.If I face any problem I will get back to you.
3)About sync oustide the windows live writer do working.

Mike