15 Reasons to Use Windows Live Writer for Posting to Blogger.
Windows Live Writer is a client software used to post to blogs on various platforms directly without using a web browser. Here wre the advantages of using it for creating posts on your blog................
1. It is free. You can download it here.
2. Insert tables without coding :
| A table | made with | Windows |
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3. Make image gallery easily by inserting images in tables :
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Images can be cropped, titlted and frames can be added to them. You can also resize and watermark images.
4. Customize hyperlinks to open in new window and add nofollow and title tags to it without coding it in the html for the link :
5. Post to multiple blogs. Word counting in posts.
6. Save bandwidth by publishing post once only instead of continuously saving posts as you make them in a web browser Post Editor.
7. Add Technorati/ Delicious/Flickr/Live Journal/Ice Rocket etc Tags to posts.
8. Add Labels in Blogger or Categories in Wordpress using the post properties toolbar below the main Writer window.
9. Insert Maps/Videos/pictures in post. Insert videos from Youtube and Upload videos to Youtube.
10. Set the publish date for the post.
11. Publish Post as draft or as a post directly.
12. Ping as soon as post is published. Go to Tools---->Options----->Ping Servers and copy the URLs below and paste them in the box and save :
http://ping.feedburner.google.com/
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://www.bloglines.com/ping
13. It has plugins to enable you to add more functionality. Be careful of third party plugins.
14. Makes you more productive. You can add more posts and also create your posts offline as soon as ideas strike you.
15. Can be used to publish posts to private blogs also.
