We have been working on some simple site hosting to offer our GiftWorks customers. Something that would enable them to get some integration between GiftWorks and the web--something like online donations, update forms and/or blogs. Obviously the blog hosting is up and running (the new software is hosting this site), but as far as finding a very nice desktop blog editor for our beta customers to use, I haven't come across anything (the closest thing I could find was Zoundry Blog Writer, which I used to make the previous posts on this site). That is until I tried the new Windows Live Writer from Microsoft. It seems to be working great and is very easy to use. It also has a developer SDK that allows adding some enhancements. I would have no problem recommending this to our customers--and will.
There are a couple cool features, like showing a preview of the post in your actual website and some cool image properties.
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