Review of Windows Live Writer as an Offline Blog Editor
Saturday May 31, 2008
If you've decided to use an offline blog editor to update your blog but you're still having trouble trying to decide which offline blog editor to use, then take a look at this review of Windows Live Writer, Microsoft's offline blog editor.
Windows Live Writer is one of the best offline blog editors. First, it's free. Second, it offers a wealth of easy to use features. If you decide to use Windows Live Writer, be sure to check out this Windows Live Writer Tutorial.
I’m totally hooked on Windows Live Writer. I use it for all my blogging now — here at About.com plus three other blogs. The only bug I’ve found is that it doesn’t always behave well with Javascript, but I’ve been able to work around that. I also wish they had a quick way to show word and character counts — a pretty common need for bloggers.
That’s a great point, Scott. I hadn’t thought of having a word or character count accessible through a click or two in Windows Live Writer, but that would be a great feature!
The Writer team just announced a technical preview is avaialable for download – this update contains the word count feature.
Thanks for sharing, Becky! That is great news for paid bloggers who need to track the number of words they write in each blog post!