What program do you people use to write your articles and have them properly formatted in the boxes of the articles directories? M.S.Word, notepad or what? Thank you
Word, Pages, Notepad, etc. Article directories have boxes that just take plain text pasting, so the program you use doesn't matter. If you want special formating, like bolding, you'll have to add HTML code.
Check out Jetspinner, if you are clever, you can write several versions at once and submit a unique article to each directory. Takes a lot of work to do it right, but the results are great.
Good tip on jetspinner. I use word, then copy to notepad and then paste in the box. Or if it allows more html, I'll pasted from notepad to dreamweaver. Word catches errors, notepad strips the word code tags out of the copy and dreamweaver can put it in html.
I use The Journal as writing and storage facility, then copy to Microsoft Word to double check errors and finally to Metapad, a great notepad substitute, unless such article is for a client and going beyond Word is not necessary. I don't need any HTML editor for articles sent to directories allowing formatting tags because I prefer hard-coding my web pages using Araneae, so an article often requires very little coding that can be easily added in plain text.
How could this be? I installed Office 2007 and didn't find anything else than a candy-eye version, that doesn't make me feel comfortable with it
So it's too bad if you think that the new Office is only about candy-eye interface... The ribbon is cool thing. After a few month you want nothing else. The floating helpers panels, the new file format, faster startup (subjective), faster graph generation (ok, it is Excel feature, not Word), table formating, image editing... Try it.
Open Office and AbiWord are great editors, and Abiword has a grammar checker. It's not very useful but at least it's more than Open Office has.
I prefer to use Open Office or just Notepad to produce text files - yes, even from Open Office - because I much prefer unformatted ASCII text. I know MS Word can do ASCII text, but since anything from MS is top-heavy with unnecessary extra code, I try to steer clear of it as much as possible (even though it is still installed on my PC). It is much more efficient to do the formatting once the text has been added to a new web page. I prefer to use XSitePro (now version 2) for my sites, and dropping plain text to an empty new page couldn't be easier. XSP2 also has a button to import from MS Word directly and strip out the crap, but I haven't needed to try it.
I use dreamweaver and notepad. Notepad for some source editing, and then you can copy the design view of dreamweaver directly into most CMSs edit forum keeping all the html intact.
I use word first just to make sure there will be no spelling and grammatical error then paste it to notepad before I place it to wordpress. Same simple steps as others. I'm still learning dreamweaver and just learned about jet spinner.