windows live writer

Windows Live Writer is a desktop application for preparing and publishing blog posts. It supports the major blogging services like Wordpress, Blogger, LiveJournal, and TypePad.
Microsoft provides Windows Live Writer as part of the free Windows Live Essentials family of applications. The current version, Windows Live Writer 2011, offers a “what-you-see-is-what-you-get” authoring interface with the familiar “Ribbon” look and feel of Microsoft Word 2010 and other recent Microsoft applications.
Live Writer downloads and uses the blog theme settings so spacing, fonts, and similar elements, even background, correspond to the design set up in the blog account. All the normal authoring functions are available including spell checking.
Photos can be inserted from the local computer or by supplying a web address. The pictures can be positioned, scaled and various effect options can be applied, even a watermark. Live Writer prepares the modified images and uploads them to the blog sites media folder. The image handling is very rich and amazingly easy to use. In addition to photos, videos from YouTube can be inserted, as can maps from Bing Maps.
Live Writer generates HTML code which can be inspected and edited by just clicking the “Source” tab. The online appearance can be checked with the “Preview” tab. Publishing to the blog is just a one click operation as well.
The 2011 version, released as part of “Wave 4” in September 2010, can be used in Windows 7 and Windows Vista. The application can be downloaded from: Download Windows Live Writer .

For additional resources and tips visit these blogs:

Live Writer Basics.

Aaron's Live Writer Blog.

Windows Live Writer Blog.

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