Am I really going back to Windows Live Writer ?
I can not answer the title question – at least not yet. I have decided to give it another try. The reason is that I am finding I want more control over the images incorporated into my blog entries. I have two basic formats for images:
- small 240 or 320 px thumbnails aligned to the right side of the post
- medium sized 575 px images centered within the post
I have been using the Postie plug-in for Wordpress for processing blog entries authored using Thunderbird or other email clients. I still want to keep Postie as an option for blogging on the road but most of my writing happens in the relative comfort of my office and as such I would like the best tools I can find.
At the same time, I don’t want to use WLW if it will be “stuck” on my machine. I have been assempling a small collectio nof frequent tools into a portable storage device. There is a handy site conveniently called PortableApps.com where I have downloaded and installed Thunderbird, GIMP, and FileZilla. It does not yet have a solution for WLW but TechLifeWeb has packaged up the next best thing. Now, I will give WLW a test run for the next week or two. It won’t help me if/when I build my next Linux PC, but then again, I’m almost happy with my Postie + Thunderbird + GIMP solution so that is always my fall back.
What do you think of it so far? Im trying to decide myself.
I was pretty happy with it the first time around. My complaint then was the size of images. I am very concerned with bandwidth for my friends and readers who still have dial-up. I created the Wordpress plugin to solve this. It also does not work on Linux and I switched to Ubuntu shortly after my first tests of WLW. I am back on Windows again so WLW works well.