The Windows Live Writer team is advising people who have upgraded to Internet Explorer 9 and that are using Windows Live Writer 2011 to downgrade, back to Internet Explorer 8 if it’s necessary.
Call me crazy, but we’re talking about Microsoft here, and with issues like this you start to understand how compartmentalized they are.
But betas are betas and natively meant to be prone to bugs; thus they’re beta. They need people to beta test to find these issues and correct them.
While its highly regarded as the best offline blogging tool, it misses simple and obvious functions. It throws new people who want to use it for a loop, and then they come to the forum searching for answers.
Things like having the option of a MORE option to break a post in to two parts for Blogger.
It's asked in the forums a lot; why it doesn't get resolved? I don’t know.
The break/MORE for WordPress is the same for Blogger. Go figure, but you do have some options.
Here's what your available options are...
The answer is NO- not natively, but you can do it other ways.
But if you know a little HTML code, you can do it. Or if you've a HTML WYSIWYG editor it’s not real hard.
You can do this with Kompozer; a free HTML WYSIWYG editor you can download. Very easy to use and portable. Great for quick HTML edits.
If you're looking to something special/specific with the layout of your site/blog, you can make an attempt establish/compose a blog, edit it with an outside HTML editor to have more HTML control. I suggest trying Kompozer [it's free and open source]
Link:
http://www.kompozer.net/download.php
Here’s my example…
I’ve been able to help out plenty of people in the Windows Live Writer support forum, and while Microsoft techs are visiting the support forums for Windows Live Writer a bit more regularly than the old one, they aren’t really providing a great deal of assistance- not from what I’ve observed. Or maybe there’s just a crap load of private messages from Microsoft to the users… I don’t know.
I believe I’ve been fairly reasonable with Windows Live Writer, in the support forums, but since I can’t get an answer from the official support resource, I’d guess I can ask the Internet; why not?
This is a couple of videos I did for Zemanta. 
The specific problem is that with every new sentence, every new phrase, in every new set of words or corrections that you make; everything begins with the capitalization. this wasn't a problem in the previous versions of Windows Live Writer, but I guess with the introduction of version 2011- it's a problem now.
It's not a major issue, the problem can be resolved with a simple checkbox...
For instance if you are writing articles for a particular blog and you always want the images that are imported into the blog to have a drop shadow, or to be a certain size, or to look a certain way; you can set the default behavior of that image when it’s pasted into Windows Live Writer.
This is how you do that…
Zemanta provides a plug-in for Windows live writer to assist the blog author in the composition of their new post. It offers suggestive, images, selected links/supporting articles and links to similar articles.
Zemanta recently updated their plug-in to work with Windows live writer 2011 [beta].
Here's what I've got thus far...
If you take just about any blogging service [Blogger, LiveJournal, TypePad, WordPress, Etc.] that’s on the Internet right now, or that’s commonly used, most of those blogging services are going to have the option to split the blog post into multiple sections, so that you can give the readers a snapshot view of the content that you’re presenting.
At that point, the reader can decide whether or not they want to continue reading, if it’s interesting enough, or they just want to continue on and ‘bounce’ to the next website.
Ironically enough Windows live spaces does not offer this option…
One of the most popular instant messaging applications is Digsby. Digsby is a powerful instant messaging application that’s compatible with just about every instant messaging protocol that’s available on the Internet.
In addition to being able to interface with all these instant messaging protocols, Digsby also offers a widget; HTML code that can be placed into the post of your article, where readers can communicate with you directly.
What makes the application even better is that the program has extensibility through plug-ins. The overall function of the application can be increased greatly by simply adding plug-ins through the application.
A Windows Live Writer has an option in the application settings to allow you to designate which ping services at you’d like to use.
Here’s how you would set that up…
Windows Live Writer is very simple when you’re adding your first blog account to the application; it has an account wizard when you’re first starting off, but the process is not so simple, and straightforward if you’re adding ancillary accounts.
I’d speculate I would need to more to another image host... But that’s really not too convenient for a blogger to go from one image host to another.
I’ll have to keep looking for options.
I believe Microsoft has a serious problems with leaks in general.
I’m only listing the highlights...
Don’t get overly animated, as Twitter notify plug-in begins asking for sign-in credentials from today and it doesn’t work even if you provide with ID and password.
The reason behind that is Twitter today has made altered the process on how you sign-in to Twitter. And it doesn't provide notification that you'd need to update.
Based on this request:
http://www.windowslivehelp.com/thread.aspx?postid=50800dae-5a5b-42e7-8abc-42c5dacf3e13#50800dae-5a5b-42e7-8abc-42c5dacf3e13
Here’s how...
Windows Live Writer is an offline blogging tool with a WYSIWYG editor. It interfaces with just about any blog service [Blogger, LiveJournal, TypePad, WordPress, etc.] If you're a blogger you'll find this tool incredibly helpful.
This is a good video on how to get started with Windows Live Writer.
If not already, download the beta...
http://explore.live.com/windows-live-essentials-beta
I received an email several days ago and it said that all existing plug-ins and NEW plug-ins are going to have to go through a new process to post plug-ins to the new upcoming Windows Live Writer gallery [or just Windows Live gallery]. Either way, right now, it’s deplorable.
But I seriously doubt this is the way to get this ball started.
