Blog Better with Windows Live Writer

Microsoft’s Windows Live Writer is, in my humble opinion, the best WYSIWYG (What You See is What You Get) blog writer. Once you download the program and install it, it is super easy to set up; all you need to do is select your blogging service (be it Blogger, Wordpress, Windows Live Spaces or dozens of others) and sign in. Then, writer will download your blog template and all of your settings for your blog. Once you’ve done that, you can start blogging!

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Windows Live Writer supports the insertion of images, videos, photo albums and many many other things through the use of plugins (akin to Firefox’s extensions). It supports saving locally and remotely, editing your past posts without double posting and adding and removing labels and categories (that automatically sync with the ones you have created online or vice versa) among many other features! There is nothing you can with the web based editor for Blogger (which is my preferred service) that you can’t do with Windows Live Writer, and Windows Live Writer is just so much more flexible and easy to use. Plus, you don’t need to worry about losing what you’ve written because it automatically saves your work every minute. Try it, you’ll never want to go back to writing your blog posts in those cramped little boxes that are built into your blogging service.

Good luck with your blog. Other things you should look into when you’re blogging is setting up Google Adsense (to profit off your blog) and Google Analytics (to track usage data and improve your number of pageviews). Search around for tutorials on how to set these up for your blog, or look out for a tutorial that I will get around to writing sometime.

But one last thing! Remember that it doesn't matter what editor or service you use, the most important thing about blogging is to try your best and write consistently good content and to not be discouraged!