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Using Windows Live Writer as a Website Content Editor

What are your considerations for using Windows Live Writer to link to your site as a content editing system?

Windows Live Writer supports multiple blog categories (i.e. can be news, articles, and blogs), multiple category pages, tags, XHTML WYSIWYG editing, uploading images and files via services or ftp, and the client has an "Insert HTML" plugin library with many plugins already developed for popular sites.

The hardest part is implementing all of the XmlRpc methods in your services, but some digging with Reflector has shown that they are quite simple to implement.

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Well, if the normal website refresh pattern is posting new blog posts "news" aka, the page editing becomes secondary to the static content refresh.



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I've looked at this, but kind of like putting a triangle in a round hole. This will work, but not quite right. Since the focus is on the blog, page editing would be intuitive if you introduced someone as a page editor.



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I thought the same thing. Using Windows Live Writer or MS Word 2007 (also supports Atom publishing) to edit web content on a site would be awesome (in theory), right?

I tried looking into creating an AtomPub Server (using Google Data API, Apache Abdera, or Project ROME) to create a simple server-side Atom Publishing in Java Google App Engine. He saved objects and images in the GAE data warehouse. The saved data can be displayed using a simple interface on the site. All editing will be done in MS Word.

But creating my own Atom pub server turned out to be extremely difficult for me. I'll cover the towel for now, at least for the AtomPub protocol. For Windows Live Writer, it is still possible for something as dead as simple as the interface of a CRUD object, since it supports simpler protocols.

As far as I know, this was not done for GAE. Umbraco ASP.net CMS supports it though.

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