Windows Live Writer (WLW) merupakan program aplikasi gratisan dari Microsoft. WLW bekerja secara offline yang berguna untuk membuat tulisan dan memformat postingan dengan banyak fasilitas seperti tabel, hyperlink, tags sebagai kata kunci utama suatu postingan, dan kategori/label. WLW juga mudah digunakan untuk penambahan gambar dan video.
Pada saat menulis di WLW, kita seperti menulis langsung di blog/situs kita, jika template kita sudah di set ke dalam WLW. Terdapat 2 cara menulis dalam WLW sama seperti di blogger, yaitu html dan WYSIWYG (di blogger disebut "edit html" dan "tulis/write"). WYSIWYG merupakan istilah keren atas apa yang lihat (di monitor anda) merupakan apa yang anda dapatkan hasilkan di monitor lain / dicetak di suatu media. Istilah ini sangat terkenal waktu aku kuliah dulu yang masih belajar Lotus 123 versi 3 (beheula banget). Sebanding dengan WS 4 dan ChiWriter (apa masih ada ya program aplikasi under DOS ini yaaa? Lotus 123 aku masih simpan masternya kok). Tau WYSIWYG? WYSIWYG merupakan singkatan What You See is What You Get.
Sebelum melakukan instalasi, perhatikan syarat sistem yang dibutuhkan. Aku rasa syarat 1-6 semua orang dah punya. Syarat ke 7 jika tidak dimiliki di komputer anda, WLW akan mendownload dan menginstalnya (katanya seeh otomatis).
Terus perhatikan syarat dibawah ini :
Syarat utama untuk menginstalnya adalah :
ANDA HARUS TERHUBUNG KE INTERNET
sampai instalasi selesai.
Lalu download dulu filenya di http://get.live.com/home/general
Lakukan instalasi dengan mengikuti petunjuk.
System Requirements
- Operating system : Microsoft Windows XP SP2 or later, or Windows Vista (Windows XP Professional x64 Edition is not supported.)
- Processor : Minimum 800 MHz processor
- Memory : Minimum 128 MB of RAM (256 MB or more recommended)
- Browser : Internet Explorer 6 or later
- Internet connection : Internet functionality requires dial-up or broadband Internet access (provided separately). Local or long-distance charges may apply.
- Display : Minimum 800 x 600 screen resolution (1024 x 768 or larger recommended)
- Prerequisite software : Microsoft .NET Framework*
This component is required and will be downloaded and installed if it's not already on your computer.
*This component is not required when installing on Windows Vista.
Jika anda keyboard mania (baca disini 100 keyboard shortcut) yang lebih suka menggunakan keyboard sebagai alat navigasi di layar (bukan cuma untuk ngetik doang), terdapat tombol-tombol pintas untuk melakukan perintah tertentu seperti :
- F11 = view in web layout
- Shift+F11 = view in HTML code
- F12 = view in web preview
- Ctrl+F11 = view in normal layout
- Ctrl+N = open a new post
- Ctrl+S = save it to your computer
Misalnya untuk membuka menu File :
Tekan tombol Alt+F
Ini tulisan dari situs WLW :
About Windows Live Writer
Windows Live Writer is a free, downloadable program that works with Windows Live Spaces and most popular blogging services. Use Writer to create and format blog (Short for weblog. An online journal or newsletter that is frequently updated and intended for the general public. Blogs generally represent the personality of the author or the website.) posts with rich content like maps, tables, hyperlinks, tags (Keywords that can be assigned to a blog post to indicate which category or categories it belongs to. Writer allows tags to be added to blog posts from various social bookmarking websites. When the blog post is published, the tag is hyperlinked to the social bookmarking website, and automatically triggers a search for items with the same tag.) , and categories. You can see exactly what your blog will look like before you publish it. With Writer, you get:
WYSIWYG editing
- Switch between HTML (Hypertext Markup Language. A common language that most web pages are written in.) source-code editing and WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get. Any editing interface that lets you see how a finished HTML document will look while the document is being created or modified.) editing.
- Support for XHTML (Extensible Hypertext Markup Language. A subset language of HTML that conforms to XML syntax.) formatting.
- Create and format posts by using your blog's visual style, including headings, fonts, colors, margins, and paragraph styles.
- Preview your post and see exactly what it will look like in the context of your blog before you upload it.
- Check the spelling in your post before you upload it.
- Use advanced posting properties supported by your blog provider, such as post categories, comments, pings (Notifications sent to a blogger when another blogger has linked to one of their blog posts in their own blog.) , keywords (Words that blog readers can search for to find specific blog posts about a subject.) , and trackbacks (A system adopted by many blogging tools that allows a blogger to see who has seen their original post and written another entry about it.) .
- Print your post directly from Writer before you publish it.
Multiple account support
- Add multiple blog accounts, and switch easily between them.
- Write posts for Spaces, as well as SharePoint, Blogger, LiveJournal, TypePad, WordPress, Community Server, and many other services.
- Write and edit drafts even when you aren't connected to the Internet.
- Save drafts on your computer to work on offline, or publish drafts to your blog, to work on from another computer.
- Upload photos directly to blog providers who support the Media Object API (An XML-based application programming interface that provides upload information about images, movies, songs, or other types of media when you upload media from your computer to your blog.) , or to an FTP (File Transfer Protocol. A fast, high-bandwidth method of communicating between two computers.) server.
- Insert and customize rich content such as pictures, maps from Live Search Maps, hyperlinks, tables, tags, and more.
- Resize pictures, and add borders or other graphic effects.
- Add videos from different video providers.
- Create thumbnail image links to larger graphics.
- Access many of the most useful features from the Writer sidebar.
- Extend the functionality of Writer with plugins downloaded from the Windows Live Gallery website.
Notes
- Writer works with Really Simple Discoverability (RSD) (An XML format that makes it simple to set up editing or blogging software to use with blogging sites.) , the Metaweblog API (An XML-based application programming interface that allows other applications to interact with a blog site.) , the Atom Publishing Protocol (An application-level protocol for publishing and editing web resources.) , and the Movable Type API (An XML-based application programming interface that extends the Metaweblog API.) .
- The advanced posting features accessed through the post properties toolbar aren't available for all types of blogs. For more information, see Advanced posting settings unavailable.
Install and set up Windows Live Writer
System requirements
Create and publish a blog post
