If you have windows vista or later then the product may already be installed have a look for Windows Live in your program list, if it is not there then Download it Here:

Like many other programs it will suggest other products, just take a look and de-select any you do not want to install.

When you run Live Writer you need to setup your blogging account, you can setup as many as you want once you have installed the first blog, that means you can manage several blogs at the same time, and give other users a way to publish their work without logging onto the blobs admin area.

On the first screen choose the last option for Blogger or WordPress .

Next: enter the website address of your blog, username and password, if you are not on a shared computer you can select to save the logon details.

That is it Live Writer will try to logon to your blog and setup the blog account in Live Writer.

If you would like a what you see is what you get look in Live Writer, you can let the software create a temporary post in your blog, so it can retrieve the style.

Next Live Writer will download the theme, this will not work on all themes but it would not stop you using Live Writer for posting.

Give your Blog a friendly name and select finish.

That is it you are ready to review a post by selecting the Open > More folder on the right and downloading a post for editing, you can create a new page or Post from the main menu, when you insert an image you can choose margins, size, style etc: and save these settings as default.

There are a number of different options for inserting components into your post on the right hand panel.

When you have finished your content, Create or select the Categories and tags, you can also set the publish date, then hit the publish option on the main menu.

Our latest theme is the Portfolio Theme, we have used Artisteer 2.4, cu3er slideshow and have created a function to add a number of categories, posts and tags when the theme is first loaded, check back early February for linking, columns and mouseover fading.

Visit The Wedding Theme to see how the post images look, while you are there sign the guestbook, we would say view our photos but if we have not emailed you the password you will not be able to.

This post has been created based on a post by Mark Jaquith here and we would like to thank mark for making the code easy to follow.

But in this short tutorial we are only looking at the Post Images, support for post images is now a part of WordPress and is easy to implement so lets get started, if you have been following our tutorials then you will already have these lines in the demo-functions.php file, if not you can add them to the Artisteer functions.php file.

The width (200)  and height (133)  dimensions we used here in line three are for a standard landscape image, you may want to change the dimensions to a square or portrait based on the type of posts you will be making.

Add to either your demo-functions.php or the Artisteer theme functions.php

/* Start WordPress Thumbnail Support Code */
add_theme_support( 'post-thumbnails');
set_post_thumbnail_size( 200, 133, true); // Normal post thumbnails
add_image_size( 'single-post-thumbnail', 400, 9999 ); // Permalink thumbnail size
/* End WordPress Thumbnail Support Code */

Now we need to add a style to the stylesheet for our image, you may want to pad the image or add additional margins to suit your theme, Artisteer adds a margin around the img tag, in our theme it was 7px so we added that to the image width, 200 to 214px, and a right margin just to push the text more to the right.

Add to either your demo-custom.css or the Artisteer theme style.css

/* Add a div to the post list for our thumbnail images */
#demo-image
{
 margin-right: 7px;
 float: left;
 overflow: hidden;
 width: 214px;
 height: 100%px;
}

Last step is to add our image into two Artisteer files, index.php and archive.php, as you scroll down you will see this line.

<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

Below that is another line that look like this, paste the code lines after this lines

<!– article-content –>

Add this code to the index.php and archive.php

<!-- Start demo code Add our post image to the post list -->
 <div id="demo-image">
 <?php the_post_thumbnail(); ?>
 </div>
 <!-- End demo code Add our post image to the post list -->

So your code block should look like this:

<div class="art-postcontent">
 <!-- article-content -->

 <!-- Start demo code Add our post image to the post list -->
 <div id="demo-image">
 <?php the_post_thumbnail(); ?>
 </div>
 <!-- End demo code Add our post image to the post list -->

 <?php if (is_search()) the_excerpt(); else the_content(__('Read the rest of this entry &raquo;', 'kubrick')); ?>
 <?php if (is_page() or is_single()) wp_link_pages(array('before' => '<p><strong>Pages:</strong> ', 'after' => '</p>', 'next_or_number' => 'number')); ?>

 <!-- /article-content -->
</div>

Now that is it with the code how easy was that, just edit a post and in the right column you will see an option for the Post Thumbnail, select an image from the post media and you will see an option to make thumbnail, save the post and view your website.

The last and most important thing is to let others know if this helped you, just add your comment to this post for anyone else reading it.