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Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Offline Blogging With Windows Live Writer



Windows live writer

Yes! you can blog offline. With growing technology like Windows Live Writer blogging is no more limited to your dashboard. You can write, save and publish posts right from your computer without signing in your blogger account. Blogger HTML editor lacks many features when it comes to writing a good looking post. On contrary windows live writer is a software built by Microsoft Corporation which contains every feature that Blogger lacks.

I hate blogging without Windows Live Writer! I am sure many bloggers would agree with me on this point.

 

 

Some of the things you can’t do with Blogger HTML editor are,

  • You can not write HTML code just the way it looks in blogger editor because the code is interpreted as a command and blogger editor converts it to how it may look in a browser.
  • You can’t resize an image to whatever size you like because you are provided with only three options i.e Small, Medium and Large size.
  • The font type and font size is limited.
  • You can not undo what you have done (Going backward).
  • You can’t align images to the left or right of your intro paragraph.
  • You can not add effects to your images, like shadow effect, rounded corners, emboss, blur etc.
  • You can not post an image in its original size
  • You can not insert tables in your posts because no table option exists
  • You can not open a link in a new window unless you edit the HTML
  • You can not add a world map to your posts
  • And much more……………

You can not do all above in a compose mode unless you add or change the HTML code in your HTML editor. But editing HTML would seem difficult for a newbie whilst pretty easy for a professional. Since most people like me have limited knowledge about editing HTML, blogger editor is of little use to all of us. Luckily! Windows Live Writer comes to our rescue. It can to do what ever blogger editor can not. It contains every feature a blogger is looking for. One of the best things I like about it is that it saves a copy of your blog interface/theme and when you write posts, it will be just like writing a post straight into your blog. See the image below to understand what I mean to say,

windows live writer interface

Moreover your images can be displayed in two different ways look below,

image thumbnail in windows live writerSelecting the photo album option will display your images in a scattered style (with a view album link below your scattered images),

Scattered album with windows live writer 

So go and download it right now by clicking the link below.

DOWNLOAD WINDOWS LIVE WRITER NOW!

To download the Latest version directly from windows live site then click here

TROUBLESHOOT:

If you get an error saying that “your windows installer is out dated” then run the following setup (below) before windows live setup (above)

Download Latest Windows installer here

Enjoy Blogging with better comfort from now onwards! Get in love with itin-love



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18 comments:

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Marg on 7:18 PM, March 27, 2009 said... #

seen on post

Good blog with great info. Going to try that Windows Live Writer.

Mohammad Mustafa Ahmedzai on 1:32 AM, March 28, 2009 said... #

hi Marg!
I am glad you liked the blog

Sajjad Ali on 7:01 AM, March 31, 2009 said... #

great

Sadr-ı Cihan on 2:49 PM, October 15, 2009 said... #

great.W.L.Writer is very easy.Thanks

Dreamchaser214 on 8:01 PM, November 03, 2009 said... #

Nice post again. I'll be trying Windows live writer soon. I guess i'll be addicted to ur blog.. haha. More power and success to you!

-AB (^c^,)
TechieMax Corner™

Mohammad Mustafa Ahmedzai on 9:04 PM, November 03, 2009 said... #

@DreamChaser

You welcome dear. Your comment reminded me that the download links must be updated :>

Mohammad Mustafa Ahmedzai on 2:43 PM, December 12, 2009 said... #

@amith

While adding your blog account to windows live writer make sure you choose other services option and then enter your gmail id and password. Hope that may help

Amit said... #

sorry for my Off-topics question!
i am posting my comment again here
hello,i am facing some problem with windows live writer.when i am trying to publish new post its showing SSL/TLS Secure channel error.u can see the full message by image link below.
http://i45.tinypic.com/2zqc4rl.jpg
plz help me with that.

Mohammad Mustafa Ahmedzai on 11:13 PM, December 12, 2009 said... #

@amith

Just check the comment above yours I have already answered it.

I will further explain that when asked which blogging service do you use choose Others and then give your complete site url like http://xyz.blogspot.com and give your complete gmail ID like xyz@gmail.com

I hope this will help

Nagu on 9:12 PM, January 23, 2010 said... #

Real Good Info. I have downloaded and started working on that.
Thanks buddy.

-Nagu

Nagu on 2:00 AM, January 24, 2010 said... #

Hats off to you buddy. I am really impressed by this blog. All the posts are so informative and this one really made my work so easy. You are the best.

Thanks alot :-)

-Nagu

Mohammad Mustafa Ahmedzai on 5:27 PM, January 24, 2010 said... #

@Nagu

Pleasure dear! Thanks for the remarks :)

Roshan Ashraf Shaikh on 9:27 PM, December 23, 2010 said... #

Salaam. I appreciate the effort of telling me about that thing with content slider.

I have one more issue and I was wondering if you have any solution. Is it possible to split long posts in blogger into pages?

Mohammad Mustafa Ahmedzai on 3:21 AM, December 24, 2010 said... #

@Shaikh

W.salam brother :)

Kindly elaborate your question. I believe if you saying that can we convert post to blogger pages then I am afraid we don't see any possibility so far however you can try the conventional of manually doing it if the post is not high Pr ranked.. hope you find it helpful.

Asal on 7:01 PM, March 20, 2011 said... #

Nice posts, really useful for those who already unknown of this,
http://sharethetricks.blogspot.com
@manivasagam.

Vedant Kumar on 3:45 PM, March 23, 2011 said... #

I just Downloaded Windows Live writer and it looks pretty goodHowever I cannot find the buttons to edit pages and The HTML of it.

www.gamershub.co.in

Admin on 9:44 PM, October 17, 2011 said... #

very good man

www.just-raising.blogspot.com

Prakash Pamidi on 2:31 PM, February 05, 2012 said... #

@admin
iam getting an error that "ot enough memory"
how to trouble shoot it?

Confused? Feel free to ask

Your feedback is always appreciated. I will try to reply to your queries as soon as time allows.

Note:
1. To add HTML CODE in comments then please use our HTML Encoder
2. You can always Try the tutorial on our HTML Editor
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Regards,
Mohammad

 

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