Windows Live Writer- A PSA

A few blogs that I read have been having a tough time publishing with Blogger. If you are one of them, or even if you’re not, I encourage you to download Windows Live Writer! It will make blogging SO much easier-I promise! Click here to read about it and download it. You’ll save time and won’t have the frustration that I know I use to have when I was using Blogger to publish.

You can insert pictures straight from your desktop and move them around in your post with ease. While you’re creating your post, you see it just how it will appear on your blog-- See what I’ve circled in red? Those are the quick controls for font size/color/style, left/right/center justifying your type, etc. In orange-those are the quick controls for inserting pictures, photo albums (a photo album is when you see my pictures fanned out-there are other display options too), videos, hyperlinks, etc.

When you’re inserting a picture or pictures, all you have to do is click on picture, from one of the places circled in orange above, find the pictures in your file-I’ve selected two at a time circled in red below-and then click ‘insert’-I’ve circled it in green below.And here they are! I have it set to where the default border is what they call Photopaper-the white border-but there are other options as well.Once you have a picture selected, the option tabs I’ve circled in red will become available. Under ‘Picture’, you can change the position of your picture, choose the border, etc., ‘Advanced’ allows you to change the size, crop, tilt the picture, etc., and ‘Effects’ allows you to change a picture to black and white, sepia, and on and on. I’ve also shown you how you can still label your posts just like in Blogger. Windows Live Writer syncs to your blog. Two more really helpful features-spell check and control C/control V. You can insert a picture by copying and pasting.

Anyway-Windows Live Writer has been extremely user friendly and a very quick way to publish to Blogger with NO frustration. I hope this was helpful and I hope you’ll try it-because if you follow my blog, I probably follow yours, and I love seeing your babies sweet faces! Let me know if you have any questions!

Happy Easter weekend!