I made the switch and it is awesome. Now I can compose my blogs in Word like I always have----limited only by whatever Word can do.
Take this for example!
Or how about this!
I can then copy and paste it into my blog and everything transfers to my blog exactly the way it looked in Word without any fiddling around with all the HTML/ WYSIWIG stuff (once you copy and paste into your post and publish it it draft mode, you will notice some extraneous HTML code that you will need to go back in and delete before publishing out of draft mode).
There is also an add-on to Firefox called Scribefire that allows you do do all of your writing and then transfer directly to your blog post. Scribefire is a little more limited than Word----but not much----and what is cool about it is that you can open it and it takes up the bottom half of your screen where you can reply to all the gazillion comments to your blog post without having to scroll up and down the comments to get to the last person you commented to. Plus you can make your comments look COOL----just like whatever you do with your post----and all without that nasty HTML/ WYSIWIG stuff.
I think one of the coolest things about all this is that because there is no going back and forth between HTML/WYSIWIG, there is no problem going back and editing things later on----especially when it comes to pictures and links. Now if only I could figure out how to include pictures in the copy and paste. That can be done old school after the post has been copied into your blog.
And now for the hard part. In order for all of this to work there has to be a "snippet" of coding already in place. For example if I copy and paste my name as it appears at the end of this post into the next post and then insert the next post from Word ahead of my name there will be enough HTML code associated with my name to affect the whole new pasted material.If I get enough requests on how to do this I will do another post with those instructions.
The only thing left to say is, “WERD!”
Charles Buell
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