Writing Your Blog Posts With ScribeFire
By Krishna De on Jul 21, 2008 in Cool Tools, Blogging
How do you write your blog posts - online or offline?
One of the things I found when using Internet Explorer was the fact if I was online then I had some occasions where IE would freeze on me and then I lost my draft post unless of course I had saved when writing (which I often forgot to do).
I now use Firefox®, and also Windows Live Writer to write my blog posts off line for most of the blogs I author or am a contributing author of. (Thanks to Neville Hobson for sharing this tool with me).
I find it a great resource for drafting blog posts, adding photo’s and then uploading them - I do a final tweak online before publishing my blog posts.
This last weekend I came across another tool that UK blogger, Chris Garrett recommends, ScribeFire, which is an extension of Firefox ®, and lets you drag and drop formatted text from the Web into your blog, post entries, take notes directly through the Firefox® browser. (Do be remember if you are copying text from sites other than your own to give attribution though won’t you.)
You can find out more about ScribeFire here if you want to explore it as a toll for writing your blog posts.
What other tools do you use to write your blog posts?
Marc Norris | Aug 5, 2008 | Reply
I have been using Windows Live Writer for a long time now (since it was back in Beta) and I love it to death! Not only has it made life easier with a large number of blogs to write for, but I really do love having a spell checker included.
But I will have to check out ScribeFire now - I am always game to try new things!
Thanks again for the idea.
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Krishna De | Aug 11, 2008 | Reply
Marc - I too love Live Writer. I know some people don’t use that tool so glad you like the idea of ScribeFire.
Let us know what you think of it.