I just discovered that Adobe has a tool that is similar to Microsoft Live Writer. It is called Contribute. This allows for a team of editors, writers and reviewers to work on a web site and edit the content. It connects to your blog similarly to Live Writer but instead of just giving you a blank page to edit on you get a view of what looks like your blog. For example, here I am editing this article and I see to the right, my 2 columns with Recent Posts and the I Approve items.
I’ll just add an image here; OK, I needed to allow image and other media toa enable me to upload an image. Not very intuitive.
The application allows for Tables to be created, which is nice….Here’s one
| Item 1 | 2 and | a third item |
| look | its more | stuff! |
| easily | tabb from one square | to another. |
Seems pretty standard.
I’m looking for a preview button to show me "in a browser" what my post will look like. Live Writer has it, where is it in Contribute? It does not seem to have one, that I can locate. I guess it just assumes that since your edit page looks llike your web site you don’t need an actual in-browser view. Well they are WRONG! I like to see what I am editing in the browser since the way your browser displays it will no-doubt be different than the application displays it.
Using the dialog called Enclosure I thought it would allow me to insert a You Tube video. It does not. it wants to upload a sound or video file. I guess it then places that file into its own player. must find a vid…well I added an ‘enclosure’ but nothing seems to have happened. This is what you get without reading the manual.
OK Publishing this to see what happens!
