Windows Live Writer
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David Dunn on January 7, 2008 – 5:43 pm - 1,711 views 
Ever since I started blogging on FerrariDave back in November 2007, I have used WordPress’ admin section to write my blog posts.
As most of you bloggers will be aware, it isn’t the most advanced tool in the world.
While looking around other blogs, I found that a lot more people were using Windows Live Writer to create their posts. This made me realise that there must be some reason why people are switching.
First and foremost, Windows Live Writer means that the blogger can create their posts anywhere, whether they have access to the internet or not. It also means that you don’t need to use bandwidth every time you want to create a post, loading up all the dashboards etc. in the admin section.
Once I started using Windows Live Writer (yes, I’m using it to create this post), I found that when you are writing a post, it shows it as though you were viewing it as a post on your blog.
This, to me, is a huge advantage as WordPress creates the posts in the default font and the CSS file depicts what the font should be once on your blog.
Ultimately, this means that you have to guess how big your paragraphs are and guessing isn’t always the best option!
Inserting pictures is also made easier in this as you can see exactly what it would look like on your page and how the text is wrapping round it. Whereas on WordPress, I found myself having to save and continue with the post, previewing it to see how the text and images are looking.
These are about the only features I have explored in Windows Live Writer but the rest looks very promising including Plug-ins.
If you would like to give Windows Live Writer a go yourself, click here and download it from Microsoft. I think it’s one hell of an improvement in comparison to the traditional WordPress methods.
If anyone has any cool tricks for me, I’d love to hear about them in the comments.
If you use anything better than Windows Live Writer I’d also love to hear from you as I’m always open to improvement!
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