{"id":531,"date":"2007-11-05T06:58:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-05T06:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2007\/11\/05\/on-a-cool-blog-editing-tool\/"},"modified":"2007-11-05T06:58:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-05T06:58:00","slug":"on-a-cool-blog-editing-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2007\/11\/05\/on-a-cool-blog-editing-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"on a cool blog editing tool"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wrote the most recent post in a new blog editing tool I discovered, Windows Live Writer<\/a> from Microsoft. The tool is free (but in beta) and allows you to edit your posts in a WYSIWIG window, but adds many tools and features not available in Blogger’s editing window. For example, I can insert tables like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
\n

Label<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

\n

Label<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Point One<\/td>\nPoint One A<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Point Two<\/td>\nPoint Two A<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

I can insert a map. Here is a map of our church’s location:<\/p>\n

\"Map<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n

We are at the corner of Brock and Matson above. The map comes as a road map, or in aerial view as below.<\/p>\n

\"Map<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p>\n

In the aerial view, our church building is the black-roofed building just above the green playing fields, with a few gary oaks behind. The oaks are mostly gone now, we have 14 townhouses as our ‘back-door’ neighbours now.<\/p>\n

I can also easily insert pictures, hyperlinks, and videos, all without leaving a fairly intelligent WYSIWIG editor. There is an option to insert tags, one which I don’t understand. The tags are somehow related to Technorati, or Flickr, or deli.icio.us and others. These are things I have vaguely heard of but I don’t really know what they mean.<\/p>\n

I can format text in quite a few different ways, like this:<\/p>\n

Heading One<\/h1>\n

or<\/p>\n

Heading Two<\/h2>\n

or<\/p>\n

Heading Three<\/h3>\n

or<\/p>\n

Heading Four<\/h4>\n

or<\/p>\n

Heading Five<\/h5>\n

or<\/p>\n

Heading Six<\/h6>\n

I can add c<\/font>o<\/font>l<\/font>o<\/font>u<\/font><\/strong>r<\/strong> <\/font>to text, strikethrough<\/strike>, and other formatting settings.<\/font><\/p>\n

So far I am quite pleased with this editor. It makes posting so much easier.<\/p>\n

I can save these posts as drafts, to work on later, or I can publish directly from this editor to my blog without entering its editing features.<\/p>\n

Try it, you might like it…<\/p>\n

Regards,
Don Johnson
Jer 33.3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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