I was searching for add-ons to our internet explorer 7 installation when I came across Windows Live Writer.  It is a free downloadable program provided by Windows Live. According to its description, it provides WYSIWYG editing capability allowing bloggers to know exactly how their blog items will look like before even publishing them to the web. Curious, I checked if it is compatible with Serendipity, our blogging software. Fortunately, Serendipity supports XML-RPC, a remote procedure calling protocol using HTTP (the one you use to access most websites) as the transport and XML (an extension of HTML commonly used in webpages) as the encoding. After setting up a couple of configuration, I had WLW running! And this is my first entry to check if it will work!

Windows Live Writer also allows offline editing. You can compose your blog offline using WLW and when you’re done, upload the entry to your website. No need to be online all the time. This is a very useful feature especially for those who are always on the go!

Adding a photo is also easy. Simply drag and drop your photo into the editor and WLW will automatically resize the image. Selecting the photo will give you several options as to the size, layout, and effects. You can also set the margins of the image. See our photo on the left. However, the first time I published this entry with the image gave an error. After searching the web, I discovered that I have to create a folder named WindowsLiveWriter in uploads directory (/uploads/WindowsLiveWriter) of s9y before the uploads will work.  Also, until now I still don’t know where to put the description of the image.

Ooppss, time to sign off. By the way, this is also my first blog entry.