LiveWriter: Even Mac users don’t have it this good!
So, you own a PC, a generic computer saving you hundreds of dollars over the Apple Macintosh. This post is not about bashing Macs, I like them, but it is about demonstrating a new development in the world of website editing that makes my life a whole lot easier (and of some of my clients).
Until early this year, I have hand-coded websites and used DreamWeaver entirely to build my sites. When my clients wanted to edit their own sites, I would set them up with a $150 companion program to DreamWeaver. This is no longer necessary. A product just came out of Beta and it is a perfect tool for editing websites (provided they are based on WordPress, SharePoint or other blogging/cms platforms). The product is called Live Writer. This post is intended to give the location for downloading the software and an overview of its abilities.
Get LiveWriter by clicking here.
Overview of the Software:
- It is free.
- It is WYSYWYG (What you see is what you get)
- LiveWriter enables you to publish/edit Web Pages. You are able to insert Pictures, hyperlinks, tables and maps with ease. Also, you can arrange your pages so that they appear correctly in your menu system. Mac users have a program called MarsEdit. It does not allow you to publish/edit pages.
- LiveWriter enables you to publish/edit blog entries. You have all of the same features you do for creating pages. You can create categories “on-the-fly.”
- If you use MicrosoftWord, you can copy and paste your material into LiveWriter and it will clean up the code. It preserves and hyperlinks footnotes.
Instructional Video to Install LiveWriter
Basic Authoring with LiveWriter
