Publish your blogs using Windows live writer

Live Writer is a power blogging tool which helps in offline blogging. If you are a regular blogger then you might have used the ScribeFire Firefox addon. But Windows Live Writer is not just an addon its a full fledged blogging platform with many blog rich features. The features are fully in synch with the Wordpress platform.

Windows Live Writer is a desktop application that makes it easy to publish rich content to your blog Compatible with blog service. Writer can to publish to Windows Live Spaces, SharePoint, WordPress, Blogger, LiveJournal, TypePad, Moveable Type, Community Server, and many other weblog services. Writer knows your blog’s visual theme. So you can see exactly what your posts will look like as you write them, before you publish. No more wasting time previewing your posts online. Writer makes publishing rich media as easy as sending e-mail. Insert and customize photos, maps, tags, and lots of other cool content—then click the “Publish” button. It’s that easy. Creating compelling blog posts is much easier with the ability to insert and edit tables, check spelling as you type, and format and hyperlink content at your fingertip.

The best part of blogging in Live Writer is that, it has a facility of providing you the actual template from the blog layout while you blog. This makes you feel as if you are directly writing on your blog layout than in the standard Wordpress TinyMCE editor.

Now you can blog anytime, from anywhere. Writer synchronizes drafts on your blog with changes you make when you’re offline, so you don’t have to worry about reconciling different versions.

How to Install?

–> For installation of Live Writer make sure you have the following system requirements. More important that it requires a .Net Framework.

–> Download the Live Tools Installer. This installer is not the Live Writer Installer. Instead it is general purpose installer and lets you select more products to install if needed.

–> Start the installation from WLinstaller.exe

–> Accept the agreement policy.

–> Uncheck all the check boxes. They are optional utilities.

–> The installer then downloads the Live Writer installation. Please be patient as it takes quite a lot of time if you have slow connection.

–> You don’t have to do check anything. The installation would immediately after the download is complete.

–> Follow the further steps which include putting the login credentials, blog URL.

–> Allow the installation to detect the blog layout settings and post a temporary post to verify. It won’t affect your blog since no test post is published.

Download Windows Live writer here