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   5/17/09

   dbowles1017

   Open office, or the blogger stock program, depending on the length of the article. I do save a copy to my computer using open office though

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   5/17/09

   timethief

   I use either windowslivewriter ot BlogDesk. They both work very well and they are free. The added advantage of using an offline blog editor like those two is that they provide a backup of every post you publish on your own computer.
   download.live.com/writer
   www.blogdesk.org/en/download.htm
   
   If you have a Mac then ecto us best.
   
   I have wordpress blog equipped with a TinyMce editor and I don't use Word because it contains a lot of formatting garbage that requires stripping. This FAQs entry explains clearly what I mean. faq.wordpress.com/2006/11/09/why-not-to-use-word/
   
   That being said we do have a special feature we can use in the wordpress editor that strips the Microsoft garbage out of the HTML as well. It's icon #25 faq.wordpress.com/2006/05/15/what-do-all-the-icons-mean/

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      5/17/09

      timethief

      Here's a review I did of numerous offline blog editors
      Offline Blog Editors Reviews
      onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2007/10/26/offline-blog-editors-reviews/
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      5/18/09

      dgilbert

      timethief: thanks for the link to the list of offline blog editors!
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      5/18/09

      timethief

      You're welcome and best wishes.
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   5/17/09

   Andrebeccawrites

   I write all my entries via Admin in Wordpress. So far, I've never had a problem losing anything. I do always print out a copy of my entry after I'm done, 3-hole punch it and put it in a binder. Sort of like a secondary way to save my journal in hand held form~

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   5/17/09

   Friday13

   I write everything in WordPress. It works well, and I can get a preview of what things will look like.

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   5/17/09

   tdowney

   I write things in TextEdit.

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      5/18/09

      shankha72113

      I used to write it from the "blogger" admin area "post" tool. Now I am thinking of using Flock.
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   5/18/09

   weblogian

   Best for me is Dreamweaver. After you finish your post, copy the code and paste it in your Blog Editor and publish it.

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      5/18/09

      dgilbert

      weblogian interesting idea. I'll have to give it a try.
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      5/18/09

      weblogian

      Thanks, it will save lot of your time.
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   5/18/09

   giemiller

   i write my draft on notepad first then i'll transfer it to blogger.

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   5/18/09

   CrystalRaven

   I use Google Docs, lets me keep a back up and doesn't take space on my hard drive.

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      5/18/09

      timethief

      That's a cool approach. Another space saver is simply subscribing to your own RSS feeds. However, if you want to be sure you have a back-up copy of a post and comments made on it, then what?
      
      You can export the posts, comments, categories and pages out of a wordpress blog and import them into a wordpress.com blog with ease. This does not include any images or other uploads – you have to do that manually and the links must be exported and imported separately.
      
      So by exporting our copies on a regular basis and saving them to disc you will have "complete" replacements, if and when required, and as they are on disc they won't take up any space on your own computer.
      
      I wrote a post that contains several different methods of creating blog backups.
      Disaster Planning: Backups for Bloggers
      onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2007/10/27/disaster-planning-backups-for-bloggers...
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   5/18/09

   jan4insight

   I'm with Crystal - I use Google Docs, and then because I have a blogspot blog, I can publish with one click. Of course then I have to go into blogger's editing program and edit, because I'm never satisfied with the way it comes out the first time

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