technical solutions and commentary

I signed up on writely.com, a free online document writing application (in beta right now). Writely allows you to use spell check, format you document in using HTML, sort of like Outlook allows you to use HTML text. You can also configure writely to publish directly to your blog. This is nice because you can visually format the post and then spell check it before publishing it. This is my first post using writely.com as a test to see how well it integrates into my wordpress blog. If this works well, I’m going to such to this application for publishing the majority of my future posts.

Okay a few quirks… “Writely” flags it’s own name as a misspelled word. It also flags “online” and “blog”. It does give spelling suggestions however which is cool for an online writing application. It saves your document and allows you go go back to review or edit them and then print or repost to the blog, using the original post. Cool.

A few more things I noticed with using Writely.com… the post obviously reflects the time zone of the web server writely is hosted on. I didn’t see a way to choose any categories from my blog to file the post under.