Tip: When you click a photo you’ve inserted, the options pane at the right side of the window changes. It now offers all kinds of options: You can make your text wrap around the photo, you can add a drop shadow border, and so on. On the Advanced tab, you can even change the size of the photo, crop it, rotate it, or adjust its contrast. The Effects tab even lets you apply cheesy special effects, like Black and White, Sharpen, Emboss, and so on.
When it’s all over, and everything looks good, and you’ve checked your spelling (choose ToolsÆCheck Spelling), and you’ve clicked Preview to see what the thing will look like on the Web, you can publish your little writeup for your fans worldwide to enjoy. Just click Publish on the toolbar (or choose FileÆPublish to Blog). After a moment, your Web browser opens, with your fresh, hot, piping blog post in all its glory. Now all you have to do is send the address of your blog to your friends and loved ones so your fan base can start to grow. Figure 7-18: Writer is Microsoft’s new blog-writing tool. It lets you compose fully formatted and illustrated blog posts (text, graphics, links, tables) and post them online with just a couple of clicks.