Wow. As I said in an earlier post I am testing desktop blogging tools today. Since I can not use the firefox only Scribefire plugin because of an apparently unsolvable problem with firefox, I first tried out Qumana and now Windows Live Writer. So far, all I can say is wow"¦it downloads your theme so you can type directly in a true WYSIWYG "“ So, far, I'm truly impressed. The preview is a real preview. All the features are here and more. Here is the break "“ much more after it.
Let me list my first impressions as I am using it for this first time"¦
- Easy to install, unlike a lot of blogging tools that had to be handheld to the remote blogging API, this one found it right way. all I needed was my url and username and password.
- It downloaded the theme"¦..awesome.
- Great usability "“ the features are labeled well, and easy to find.
- Looking around now for more"¦what is this "colorize"..oh"¦it changes the color of the application"¦.not very interesting, they could have hid that under a menu"¦.
- Spellcheck works
- Preview is awesome"¦
- Nice category tool
- Easy to set the date
- Plugins"¦.what's this"¦.105 plugins"¦.one to integrate with Firefox"¦created by microsoft (!) . Lots of interesting plugins. Seems to be an active community.
- Easy to link to earlier posts"¦wow.
- Inserting images"¦wow, adds nice like drop shadow"¦ automaticlly created a thumbnail
I think we might have a winner here.