Review on windows Live writer

• Drafts are saved on the computer and work leisurely
• It includes features like image cropping and tilting, more border styles for your images and support for centering images.
• Images are automatically resized to fit in the blog's width, but the default options for images don't look too good.
• Images, maps from Microsoft's Virtual Earth and videos can be inserted into the text.
• Adding tags for the blog and automatically telling blog search engines such as Technorati that a new post has gone up.
• Live Writer's improvement areas are downloadable plug-ins, such as a button to activate it from Firefox for integration with websites such as Flickr or Picassa

Quick Pros
•    Choice between HTML/XHTML [on a per blog basis. This is good if you’re a stickler for clean and well formed code.
•    Supports FTP upload. One thing that bothered me in the previous version was that images and files could only be uploaded via the blog’s XMLRPC file (not good if you plan to store your files in a folder outside of the blog). This time around, they got it right — even better that right because the FTP set up was smooth and extremely intuitive.
•    Supports date modification, which means you can set a post to publish in the future (or the past if you so choose).
•    Tag support with a variety of providers, including custom providers.
Quick Cons
•    .Font handling is hidden  under the Format menu.
•    It would be good to have word count.
•    Paragraph tags are not available in favor of line breaks which would be helpful for WordPress bloggers.
•    Cant customize the tool bar.
•    No HTML code blocks. Instead of a pop up window that would allow you to input code, you would need to switch to code view, find your place in the document, then add the code block manually.

•    Cursror page Jump: This is hard to describe, but if you have a bit of highlighted text or if you click too far off to the side of the text you want, the cursor will automatically jump to the very top of the entry instead of the closest possible point. Can get aggravating for long entries such as this one.

Can be included:

• It should go without saying that the wish list items would be in addition to improvements on the "Quick Cons" section. To me, the items on the wish list aren’t deal breakers, but would be extremely nice to have.
  •    A thesaurus would be nice. Microsoft Word has spoiled me and I’ve become used to highlighting a word, right clicking and seeing a list of alternatives.
  •    Code color highlighting in HTML view. A small, but nice feature to have (helps in reading/differentiating code).
  •    HTML code with auto-completion. Dreamweaver has spoiled me and I’ve grown used to typing a few letters of the opening tag, then having it fill in the rest for me and automatically closing it for me, too.
  •    Persistent cursor position memory. It would be nice if the cursor position was remembered when switching between the different views instead of starting at the top of the page. It’s a nuisance when switching from Layout to HTML code and back to Layout mode — every time, the cursor is back at the top of the entry.