Blogging from LIVE Writer
I have now hear about the ability to blog from LIVE writer on the blog engine.net as I’m using, and today I decided to give it a try.
It actually works pretty simple and easy.
- Get LIVE writer from http://windowslivewriter.spaces.live.com/ (I use the beta)
- Install it – Note that it will install a beta version of MSN Messenger, which I couldn’t find a way to avoid.
- LIVE writer will ask for you blog url, username and password.
- LIVE writer den get some information from your blog and after a while, you are ready to start blogging on your blog from a desktop application instead of web.
You may think - “Why should I blog from a desktop application, when I can blog from the web?”. Well, I don’t really need to blog from a desktop application, but I most say it actually seems pretty sweet and easy as I’m sitting here writing this first blog, but back to the question. People that isn’t that much familiar with the web, maybe find it “hard” to blog from the administration via the web and maybe find it easier in a desktop application, as it is more familiar to them.
Let’s try some feature, let’s insert a picture:
It opens up the file browser on my PC here, and not my image folder at my blog. And now that I have inserted the image and selected it, I have some different kinds of possibilities.
Oh my god, this is nice! I just took at screenshot as I’m writing this blog, and just CTRL+V and bang! It’s in the post. That is actually VERY handy :)
Let’s try that again so I can show you what else I can insert:
Wow, I can crop a screenshot too! Sweet. Hmm it’s in Danish, damn, sorry for all the English speaking people out there.
Well, lets’ try inserting a Map:
Also seem to work fine.
That most be all for now, it actually seems to be pretty handy anyway, as a desktop application add much more features than the web based administration.
Now let me publish this post and see if all the images etc. get uploaded to the web too.
Set and good to go!
So this were the day that I got BlogEngine.Net up and running. I looked at the engine about a year ago, but skipped it again because I at that time just had setup my previous blog and couldn't over come to setup all the style and design again. I'm a programmer, not a designer :)
This week one of my colleages told me that he had downloaded the engine and said that it were so easy to setup and style. Today I had time to try it out and I most say that it is VERY easy to setup! I haven't even read any of te documentation or anything, just did what I guess were needed and it seems to work very well.
So the setup was easy, but what about the style?
Pretty fast I found the "themes" folder and saw the site.master. If you have worked with ASP.NET before, no further instructions are needed here. All you need it in the "themes/template-name" folder. Couldn't be easier.
So right now I'm a happy developer with a brand new blog.