Using windows Live writer ( Beta 2 )

August 30th, 2007 by Samir | EMail This Post | 389 Views

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I am testing this tool to make sure it plays fine with my wordpress blog.

This tool from Microsoft is surely good authoring tool so that

You don’t have to be logged into your site all the time
Easier and richer authoring experience
Integrates very well with online blog including categories and other details.
Write it without internet connection [ I wonder, how often that will happen in today’s world ]
If you have multiple blogs, you can manage all from desktop based tool like this one.

There are many other authoring tools out there. I have been using WLW though.

Way to go bloggers… !

on 30 Aug 2007 at 5:06 am Samir

Well, it worked. From saving draft to publishing the article, it worked.
on 30 Aug 2007 at 5:17 am Samir

I also tested update to an existing post. I changed category too and it successfully worked !
Not bad
on 30 Aug 2007 at 5:56 am Samir

Well, I found one issue though.. Nothing to do Windows live Writer, but compatibility of cross browsers. That may sound familiar

Bullet items ( LI tag ) didÂ NOT show image correctly in firefox ( my preferred browser ). It is an CSS issue

Like all issues have solution, here is solution of “list-style-image” attribute of CSS 2.0 for firefox. Interestingly IE handles it fine
Use following setting, if you ever have to:

CSS CODE
ul
{
list-style-type: none;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
}

li
{
background-image: url(arrow.gif);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: 0 .4em;
padding-left: .6em;
}

HTML CODE
- Milk
- Eggs
- Cheese
- Vegetables
- Fruit
on 31 Aug 2007 at 2:40 am સુરેશ જની

ગુજ્રાતી મા પણ લખજો
on 02 Sep 2007 at 2:01 pm Samir

ચોક્ક્સ માસા.જરુઉથી લખીશ.
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