As I’ve commented in the past I needed a tool that would allow me to better draft and layout my posts and articles. The default editor in Blogger is very nice for quick short articles but it becomes very cumbersome when the post starts to get long and has a lot of technical syntax. Formatting issues can also start to create problems which eventually lead to me (the author) spending more time cleaning up the post than actually writing the post.
This is a test post from Microsoft’s Windows Live Writer (Version 2008).
I’m curious to see how much easier and efficient it will be using this tool as oppose to using the default editor in Blogger.
I’ll also need to find a plug-in that allows me to include “code”. Should it either be HTML, Perl, Javascript or CLI output from a network switch that needs special formatting.
Let’s try this one…
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* Copyright (c) 1996-2006 Nortel Networks *
* All Rights Reserved *
* Ethernet Routing Switch 1648T *
* Software Release 2.1.0.0 *
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Login:
CPU1 [05/16/01 17:05:59] SNMP INFO Sending Cold-Start Trap
Login: rwa
Password: ***
ERS-1648T:1#
I think that looks pretty good… Thanks Leo!
Cheers!
UPDATE: May 5, 2008
I was searching around the net looking for refine my blog site and maximize the value of the information that I was posting. I found the following post from Jeremey Martin detailing how to insert some JavaScript code to help highlight comments from the blog author. Thanks for the code Jeremy!
This is an anonymous comment which should have the default formatting.
This is a comment from the author which should be formatted with a solid color background to standout.
Cheers!