Did you know – Insert picture options in Live Writer (and what they look like)

Windows Live Writer (the 2009 Release Canddiate released in December 2008) has many and varied options to give you lots of opportunities to layout photos in a blog entry. Although the latest Wave 3 version (December 2008) of Live Spaces enhanced the Add photos option, Live Writer is still the best way to give your [...]

Did you know – choose photo size when adding a photo to a Live Space entry

In the old version of Live Spaces (pre-Decemeber 2008), adding a photo to a blog entry only put in a thumbnail of a photo so that was a bit disappointing when you wanted to show off one of your best photos. Of course, the work-around for this situation was to always use Windows Live Writer [...]

Do you know how to get to your friends’ Live Spaces?

If you’ve read through webDotWiz’s previous post – Do you know how to get to your Live Space? – and you’ve got the Friends module on your Live Space, you’re just about there. Click the display pic of the friend whose Live Space you want to visit and choose View space from the drop down [...]

Do you know how to get to your Live Space?

Update: to see the easiest way, go to the bottom of this post . Before the latest changes in December to Windows Live with the new Wave 3 look and feel, webDotWiz advised his webDotWizards and others to sign in to Live Messenger (the “old” one) and click the third icon along the top of [...]

Did you know – Click a Live Spaces blog entry photo to see it in full view

The Wave 3 update (Dec 3 2008) brought several enhancements to Live Spaces. Now when you click a photo in a blog entry (it may not be showing fully but you want to see it) it will come up in its own window. For example, you may be looking at this blog entry: Click the [...]

Update Live Writer to new Segoe UI font

After the update to the Windows Live Internet Services last week (Dec 3), the default font used for entries to Live Spaces was changed to the Segoe UI font for readability and tidiness. You have to do a little bit of work to have Live Writer use the new font by default by getting Live [...]

Talking about: 7 Types of Blog Posts Which Always Seem to Get Links and Traffic

The link to the full article is below. Here’s a really good question: what kinds of posts should I write to get more links and traffic? It’s a question every blogger asks themselves. I want to answer it here by outlining 7 content methods that seem to work wonders on social media while also generating [...]

Talking about: Steve Clayton: Geek In Disguise : A new Windows Live Writer feature for me

Just came across this post from Steve Clayton on an easy way to get some text off a web page into a post which is all set up in Live Writer without doing a thing except follow the steps below (which webDotWiz highlighted in Steve’s original post). webDotWiz needs to have a look thru Live [...]

Live Spaces updates and Live Events

Did you hear that long collective sigh from all the webDotWizards? Yes, they’re all pleased because webDotWiz can’t get grumpy when they’ve made a new photo album on their Live Spaces website and haven’t the time to add a blog entry. In fact, as a result of the latest updates to Live Spaces, there’s no [...]

Tip – use Live Spaces album photos in hi-res for web site

We know that when we upload photos to our Live Spaces photo albums that the photos are reduced in quality and size except when we tick the Optimize photos for printing option. Clarification: webDotWiz was using screenshots which he resizes down to no more than 600 pixels wide so he can use them in his [...]