I like mixing my technologies and always try to use best-of-breed (and things that are free!) I started using wordpress.com for hosting (when I am brave I will move to my own hosting of wordpress) but was not quite so happy with the online editing tools. The other day I was talking blogging with Chris Pendleton and he recommenced using Windows Live Writer as an offline editing tool. It works really well with wordpress.com and the editing tools are excellent. So now I can blog on the plane and then upload it all when convenient…
Some of my favourite Windows Live Writer features so far are:
- A rich editing Word like environment with decent spell checking (essential for me!)
- Ability to save drafts online, push the drafts to wordpress.com or publish straight away.
- Multiple preview views
- Great plugin-ins like “Insert Code Snippet” and “Insert Picassa Link“
- And best of all the standard “Insert Map” tool. Which lets you do this:
Multimap Office
And even this:
Leicester Square, London
Cool or what!?
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