Comments on: Do You Have These Blogging Frustrations

By: oldschool

oldschool — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:26:20 +0000

Thanks for all of the comments and feedback.

@ Mr. Golf – With regard to Windows Live Writer, I am not really familiar with it, but my guess is that is has to have the code or it wouldn’t have the features. I could be wrong, but.. well… it’s a Microsoft product, and that’s just too simple to come from Microsoft. Kind of like the way my Microsoft rep told me the AdCenter login didn’t work in Firefox (they were right).

By: Simon Heseltine

Simon Heseltine — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:15:42 +0000

It’s amazing how many people have an issue with not remembering to drop their text in notepad or textpad before publishing.

…and then they wonder why the blog posts look different

By: Business Blog Optimization

Business Blog Optimization — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 14:09:20 +0000

I also use notepad. Which is what I also suggest my clients use when writing their blog posts.

For those that use WordPress, it has an auto save feature that is awesome. Every few seconds it auto saves your post in progress as a draft.

By: Barry Welford

Barry Welford — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:17:31 +0000

Excellent advice, Anthony. My only variation on that is that I use Metapad, which is a power variation of Notepad. One advantage is that you can click on URLs in Metapad so that you can check on the content of other online resources you may be quoting. It’s a very reliable and effective way to do your blogging.

By: Mr Business Golf

Mr Business Golf — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 16:39:22 +0000

That is a lot of steps to take to just blog, why not just use Windows Live Writer to write the blog in..has all of the features of WORD but no code. Happier Blogging

By: Kari

Kari — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:09:00 +0000

This happened to me once as well. Turns out it was a Typepad bug that took them almost a month to fix. Now I do exactly what you do so I don’t have to go through the frustration again.