Since I have started blogging(today), I have been using some tools which have made my blogging life a little bit comfortable. One such tool is Windows live Writer. This is a free download as part of the windows live Essentials. Its an amazing tool.
One of the requirements for my blogging engine, was that it supports live writer and fortunately BloggingEngine.Net does support it. Let me highlight some of few features, I have used so from live writer.
1. Deep Integration with Lots of Blogging Service.
Everything, I can do with posting blog post with the software which came with BloggingEngine.NET, I can do with Live writer, Rich Editor, Inserting Videos, Pictures, Post as Draft, Publish the post, etc. The Client is very intuitive and fast. This thing makes blogging fun. This however, is not limited to BloggingEngine, Live writer works seamlessly with tons of blogging services, including spaces, wordpress, typepad and tons of other services.
2. Office like Ribbon
I have always been a big fan of Office Ribbon, its just makes discovery so much better. I am able to find features easily, which otherwise I shouldn’t have ever used.
3. Amazing Picture (or Video) Integration.
Lots of Praises for this, It would be very difficult to get this kind of finishing, If I had to do this manually. The picture context menu which shows up, offers lots of choices, all these choices are just click away. I can play with this settings to get just the right result.
The integration with online albums from skydrive is cool. Its very well integrated and makes my blog look so professional.
The same goes with video, amazing attention to details, you could embed videos from anywhere, its gives a nice preview and makes playing with media so much fun.
3. A great plugins ecosystem.
A lots of amazing plugins have been written to enhance the experience that one can have with live writer from, integration with non-supported blogging services, plugins for beautify code in your blog post. You can find these plugins here.
4. Blog Migration and backup
One of the not so publicized part of windows live writer is the easy ability to migrate blogs from an one service to another. Just Add another blogging service and publish the same blog to that service. As I have done with this blog.
If you are into blogging, Live Write probably provides the best tool for bloggers. It allows you to create beautiful professional looking blogs, let you see how they would look like before publishing them. In addition it allows you to connect to any number of blogging site out of the box.
Do leave you experiences with live writer below in the comment section.
