Advantages of using Windows Live Writer

Blogging directly on your website has many drawbacksMicrosoft Windows Live Writer. As an example, changing the font directly on your WordPress powered website is not a straight forward issue. Using Live Writer gives you the chance to specify the font in a click and preserve your font choice when publishing. It is very hard to drop shadows for pictures directly on your website. Live Writer makes it a piece of cake.

Writing alternate text for images directly from your WordPress blog is hectic. Live Writer gives you the chance to do it easily. Live Writer gives you the ability to specify a category for your post or add a new category directly without publishing it uncategorized first. Setting tags with Microsoft Live Writer is fun. The more tags you use the easier it becomes as it memorizes them for later use. Add to that, Live Writer automatically saves what you are writing every five seconds reducing the probability to lose your work in case of a sudden internet disconnect.

Copying and pasting from word documents preserve every single character position, size and font. Even tables can be copied. Tables characteristics and content can be edited in a friendly environment. Moreover, images can be copied, pasted  and edited primarily.

Spelling mistakes cannot be automatically recognized when publishinSpelling Mistakes Checking- Microsoft Windows Live Writerg on WordPress unless you are using a web browser that supports such a service. Live Writer checks  every single word and predicts the correct word. Linking in Live Writer is a matter of a button.

An amazing thing Microsoft Live Writer can do is the simple editing dedicated for long posts. Lets say that you have a very long post. Using your browser to edit requires downloading it all first, editing it then uploading it all again. Microsoft Live Writer uploads the edited part only saving time and bandwidth. Moreover, after writing very long posts, press the publish button and take a nap as Live Writer will post it for you.

Live Writer gives you the ability to preview your blog even when you are offline by downloading the blog theme automatically when it first recognizes it. Recognizing happens only once. You can know exactly how your blog will look before publishing it. The html source can be viewed and edited without waiting a second.

Using Live Writer with Chillups

Please follow these steps to use Windows Live Writer to post blogs with chillups.

  1. Go to Tools and choose Accounts

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  2.  Choose the Add button to add a new account

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  3.  Choose “Other blog service”

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  4.  Fill the web address with http://www.chillups.com. Fill the Username and password that you use to log in to Chillups. Note that you cannot register from here.

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  5. Now wait for Live Writer to recognize Chillups theme or your blog theme.

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6.  Press Yes

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Saving you account at windows live writer8. Now name your account

Naming your account at windows live writerAnd you’re done!

 

I hope you enjoyed and benefitted from this tutorial. ChillUps is in fact the best blogging spot for you to share your posts and publish them using Windows Live Writer :) Give it a try! 

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Written by: Ibrahim Ammar on July 22, 2010.