Windows Live Writer as an alternative of MS Word for Blogging
Author: Sourish (201 Articles)
I have just downloaded Windows Live writer on my computer and this is the first post i am writing with it.Many bloggers around the world use it because its free and and a nice alternative to MS Word.The interface looks good and very similar to MS Word.There are easy options for adding links and images to your post in the sidebar.automatically synchronizes with Word press dashboard to show the post previews and options to schedule your post.I must say this is a must have for every blogger.Just go to Windows Live writer and download the installer.The installation process takes few minutes to download and install the 186 MB setup file.
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Get connected with Face book,Twitter,MySpace and other social networking sites to send in your updated whenever you publish a post.Press F7 and you are ready to check your spellings and grammatical mistake.I wonder how come i still didn’t knew about this great tool.I started liking it when still i am writing this 
.You can add tags,choose you categories and put links with rel=”nofollow” just from the Live Writer itself.
You can directly upload videos and images from your computer the the WordPress upload folder , though i prefer using TinyPic and PhotoBucket.If you dont want to publish you can always save it as a draft , either locally in your computer or as a Draft in Wordpress/Blogger.
Following are some features of Windows Live writer 2008
- New border treatments (including Instant Photo)
- Crop and tilt photos
- Insert multiple photos
- Toolbar alignment commands enabled for images
- Insert and upload Windows Live photo albums
- Insert and publish video to YouTube
- Server-side tagging (for supported blogs)
- Type-down filtering in the Open dialog
- Twitter, Digg and Flickr Plug-ins
- Improved blog account setup
- Lightbox and Windows Live Spaces inline preview support
- Improved category control: adding categories, type-down filtering
- Tabbed view switching
- AutoLink glossary
- Smart quotes/typographic characters
- Word count
- Support for bidirectional languages (like Hebrew and Arabic)
- Tabs for view switching
- Updated look and feel
I feel the most comfortable with Wordpress Non-Visual editor. But, as far as desktop blogging tools are concerned Live Writer is definitely ranks among the best.
@Pallab
since last day , i am feeling quite good using it.Bydaway what do you think about the Captcha system for comments.I dont keep the comments for moderation now.they’re directly published
I will never say that Windows live writer is an alternative to MS word. Because I never thought of comparing them in any ways.. WLW is one of the best Desktop blogging tool, where as MS word is entirely diff. stuff… Just my 2 cents..
@Harsh Agrawal
WLW is a great blogging tool indeed.Its free and easy to use text editor.