1. Do one of the following:

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   [1] Create a blog post

   1. In the main Writer window, type the information that you want to appear in your post.
   2. Click Enter a post title, and then type the title of your post.

   [2] Create a blog post from a website

   1. In Windows Internet Explorer, navigate to the webpage that contains the information that you want to create a blog post about.
   2. Click Tools, and then click Blog This in Windows Live Writer. If you want to create a post about only a portion of the webpage, select the text that you want to create a post about before you click Blog This in Windows Live Writer.
   3. If the Select Destination Blog dialog box appears, click the blog you want to publish on, and then click OK.
2. Prepare your text to be published.

   [3] Show me how

   • To format your text, select the text, and then click an option on the formatting toolbar. For more information, see [4] Format text in a blog post.
   • To format your blog post using HTML code, below the main Writer window, click the Source tab.
   • To insert links, maps from Bing Maps, pictures, tables, [5] tags (Keywords that can be assigned to a blog post to indicate which category or categories it belongs to. Writer allows tags to be added to blog posts from various social bookmarking websites. When the blog post is published, the tag is hyperlinked to the social bookmarking website, and automatically triggers a search for items with the same tag.) , or other rich content, click the Insert menu, and then click an option.
   • To preview your blog post in your blog, at the bottom of the main Writer window, click the Preview tab.
3. Add any optional advanced properties that you want to your post.

   [3] Show me how

   1. At the bottom of the main Writer window, below the Edit, Preview, and Source tabs, click an option in the post properties toolbar. To see all the properties available for your current blog, on the right side of the post properties toolbar, click the arrows .

      The advanced publishing features accessed through the post properties toolbar aren’t available for all types of blogs.

   2. Do one or more of the following:
      • To assign the post to a category, click the Set category list, and then select a category.
      • To specify a publication date for a post, click Set publish date, and then select a date. If you set a date that’s in the past, the post will appear to have been posted on that date. If you select a date that’s in the future, the post will not be published until that date.
      • To allow or deny readers the ability to leave comments about the post, click the Comments list, and then click Open or Closed.
      • To allow or deny [7] pings (Notifications sent to a blogger when another blogger has linked to one of their blog posts in their own blog.) , click the Pings list, and then select Allow or Deny.
      • To add one or more [8] keywords (Words that blog readers can search for to find specific blog posts about a subject.) , in the Keywords list, type the words, separated by spaces.
      • To add a summary of your blog post, in the Excerpt box, type your summary.
      • To send [9] trackbacks (A system adopted by many blogging tools that allows a blogger to see who has seen their original post and written another entry about it.) to one or more web addresses, in the Send TrackBacks to the following URLs box, type or paste each web address, separated by commas.
4. Click Publish.

Notes

• If you’re not ready to publish, you can save your post as a draft and publish it at a later time.
• To find out how many words are in your blog post, click the Tools menu, and then click Word Count. To track the number of words as you type, click the Tools menu, click Options, click Editing, and then click Show real-time word count in status bar.
• If you’ve changed your blog’s default style, and you want blog posts created in Writer to reflect the new style, click the View menu, and then click Refresh Theme.

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