By Mitch “Alive and Well” Keeler 

Programs that promised to help me update my blog stopped being interesting the first time I tried one. Why? None of them seem to do it all. That was my point of view before I found Windows Live Writer and I have to say, I am happy that Microsoft was able to make me give this software genre another chance.

Windows Live Writer is great. All you do is plug in your WordPress information, and it figures out and does that rest of the work for you. Then you can write you posts as you would in any other word processor-type program. You also can format images, save drafts, edit tags and categories and more.

Windows Live Writer Pro: Best blog updater program out there - by far, for Windows.

Windows Live Writer Con: For some reason, you can’t center images. Have yet to figure that one out.

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The icing on the cake is the various previews you can generate. You can edit and write via the standard interface or via an interface that gives the appearance that you are writing there on your own web site. The Web Preview feature is also good to show you what the post’s format will look like once it goes live.

I can’t say enough good things about Windows Live Writer. If you are blogging on your Lunarpages hosting space, then you really need to give this free download a shot.

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