As I get Jorriss.com back to a working state by adding the del.icio.us links, book links, Google ads, etc. I looked into getting a better post editor than the one built into Community Server. After not much searching I found this article entitled "How can I publish to my blog offline?" It discusses the MetaWeblog API that Community Server uses and links to a tool called Windows Live Writer. Windows Live Writer is a Microsoft application that is specifically designed to allow bloggers to construct, modify and publish blog posts. One of the things that I like about it is you can view the blog post in the style that it will look on the web. It also uploads the pics that you use in the post seamlessly to the blog site. It also supports plug-ins that developers can create to automate common blogging tasks such as inserting a video, a map or a Flickr image. I've been very impressed with the tool and I'm looking forward to using it more.
The other tool that I found was Copy Source As HTML. I'll be using this on Jorriss.net when I have to copy source code from Visual Studio into a post. I used a tool similar to this before and it really helps with putting the source code in a readable format.
