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.

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.

• 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.

• 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.
• 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.
• 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. Great
• 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

     

      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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