As the Internet has become more social nowadays, blogs have gained in popularity. Today, there are over 100 million blogs with more entering the blogosphere every day. In fact, blogging has become an important part of the online and offline worlds with popular bloggers impacting the worlds of politics, business and society with their words. There are so many blog services available and free for anyone to get started as a blogger. Writing blog should be a fun way to stretch your mind and stay connected to trends and friends, but not another computer task that takes long time to get it done.
Getting a right blogging tool, can ease you to tweak your markup and make everything look right before publishing the blog post to your blog site. There are a number of good blogging tools, but choosing among them can be confusing. In this article, I am introducing you a blogging tool that can assist you in composing and manage your blog posts – Windows Live Writer.
Compatible with Various Blog Service
Windows Live Writer is a desktop application that makes it easier to compose compelling blog posts using your current blog service. Live Writer makes it easy to share your photos and videos on almost any blog service—Windows Live, WordPress, Blogger, LiveJournal, TypePad, and many more.
What You See is What You Get (WYSIWYG) authoring
Windows Live Writer© enables true WYSIWYG blog authoring. You can now author your post and know exactly what it will look like before you publish it. Writer knows the styles of your blog such as headings, fonts, colors, background images, paragraph spacing, margins and block quotes and enables you to edit your post using these styles. Writer also includes other views including HTML source-code editing and web preview mode. With this feature, you don’t have to waste time going through the process of publishing, refreshing, previewing, and tweaking your post to get it looking the way you want.
Photo Publishing
Most of bloggers like to attach photos on the blog post to make it more interesting. With Live Writer©, It’s fast and simple to make your photos look great on your blog. Once you’ve inserted the picture, Writer provides contextual editing tools to modify size, text wrapping, borders, and apply graphic effects. You can even pull your photos together into an album—just select the style you want and Live Writer© will take care of the rest. What more cool is Writer automatically saves your picture or album online and links them to your blog when you publish it. This feature avoids the hassle to look for site to host your photos.
Videos on blog
Photos are just not enough sometimes, how about attach video to make your blog more lively? Writer can help you publish videos to Soapbox on MSN Video, or to YouTube, and embed them in your blog. And just like photos, it’s easy to align, resize, and caption your videos, so they look just the way you want them to. 
There are more other features on Windows Live Writer©, which makse blogging more handy.
As long as your computer is running Windows XP Service Pack (SP)2 and above, you can start to explore the wonderful blogging tool by downloading and installing it on your computer. To download the Windows Live Writer, go to this website: http://download.live.com/
