Well I was browsing over my WhosOnCFCStats today, as I usually do, just to get a casual glance at the sites referring browsers to me. I have seen a few queries coming from people working on getting WLW working with BlogCFC. I have spent quite a bit of time covering XML-RPC related issues but I suppose a quick recap could not hurt.
Well, it is no secret I am a big fan of Windows Live Writer. It has worked better than any other blog editor I have used. It has a lot of great features as far as image manipulation as well as everything else it does. I was trying to figure out the easiest way to insert a code block. In html view, the actual code itself is going to be unrecognized and just ignored by the HTML processing. Another great feature of WLW is you can switch to HTML Code view. I wrap the code tags along with the code I want to show in a <pre> block and everything lines up great.
Plus, if you want control over how the pre block gets formatted you can edit your styles.css and set it up however you want it.
Well, I have been playing around with external blog editors today, mainly because I am bored. I don't mind using the built-in editor, I just enjoy the extra flexibility an external editor provides. I would have to say Windows Live Writer was very easy to install. One of the things I like about it is how well it integrates with BlogCFC. I have heard a few negative things about Writer with errors and registry hacks to make it work correctly, but so far I have been extremely lucky.
Earlier this evening I was playing around with Google Documents using their publish to blog feature. The are a few problems with it that I can see. First, it works fine if you primary use Google Documents, but what if you have posts you want to edit that are already on your blog, but not in Documents? Second, it is supposed to be possible to set tags for your posts, but I have not figured out how to do it. I googled around for the answer a bit, but perhaps I did not dig deep enough. Windows Live Writer addresses these two problems and more.
I am not saying Documents is a bad tool. I will continue to use both programs but for actually working on the blog, so far Writer has really impressed me.
