Windows Live Writer

I’m trying a new editor for my blog.  This is Windows Live Writer, a free component of Vista and Windows 7.  Using this program, I can create new blog posts from a stand-alone application and then publish the post when I am finished.

The editor looks great, and because it is not running on my old, tired, slow server, it is quick. 

This is a full test, with an image and the whole nine yards.  I have had problems with the latest version of the WordPress editor.  When I right-align an image, it goofs everything up.  I have to go into HTML mode and fix that tags so that the image is actually right-aligned.  I’m not going to do that with the above image.  If it looks funny, it’s because this editor couldn’t do any better than the built in one.

This is cool.  I have added the Flickr Image plugin.  So now I can search all of Flickr or just my photos on Flickr and insert images directly into my blog posts.  Maybe there is a WordPress plugin for this?  I will have to look.  SO far, the Writer plugin works great.

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Update: The image alignment worked perfectly.  I am also editing my post from Live Writer.  This is cool.