Monday, December 22, 2008

Review of Windows Live Writer

I have been playing around with Windows live Writer now for a few days. I have to say that I really like it.

  • It has a very good spell checker, good because I am a very bad speller.
  • It got my blog layout so now I can see what my blogs will look like before i publish them. With bloggers built in writer you have to use the default template.
  • Never in my life did I ever think I would say this. Microsoft Windows Live Writer makes Standards Compliant code and bloggers code is a nightmare when I have to edit the code by hand after.
  • Bad thing is it keeps updating the preview in the embed window when. I type that is a little distracting to me. I would rather have to hit the preview button myself
  • here is a video that I embedded with WLW.
  • A feature that I would love to see in this is a auto save. You know incase i have a error and have to exit the program. I don’t what to lose a lot of work, but it does not matter because I make sure I save every 5 minutes.

So I would have to say that WLW is a good program. I can use it when I am at my Grandparents house or on the road to create a blog entry. You can download it here http://download.live.com/writer

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