Editing your Wellness Newsletters

The very first time you open Windows Live Writer, you’ll see a pop up window asking “Would you like to create a new blog?”, here you’ll click on “Yes”, and you’ll see this window:

For your blog, you’ll click on “Other blog service” and then “Next”. On the next screen you’re required to enter the URL of your site, and your login details.

In the first box, enter the name of your website, for example www.newmexicochiro.com You’re also required to enter the username and password you use to log into your site. If you’re unsure of these details, email us and we will send you the information. You can also click the box “Remember my password”, so that you don’t have to enter it every time you want to modify your blog. Afterwards, click “Next”.

After clicking “Next”, this window will be displayed briefly:

You don’t need to touch anything here, after a few moments it will automatically proceed to the next step.

Here you enter the technical details which will allow you to modify your blog.

Click the small arrow on “(Select Blog Provider)”, where you’ll be presented with a dropdown menu and you select “Metaweblog API”, like so:

Then we need to fill in the text box that says “Remote posting URL for your blog”. In this case we’re creating the blog to edit your Wellness Newsletters (which is emailed to your websites subscribers), so you’ll type the following:

http://www.yourdomainhere.com/metapost.ashx?key=Wellness Newsletter

When you finish setting up your account for editing your Wellness Newsletter (which is emailed to your websites subscribers) you will also want to create accounts for editing your websites standard content (Text/HTML) and your News Articles (these are the "Wellness Newsletters" that are posted on the website or if you have your own article, e.g. Dr. Allen Miner has created "Wellness Wisdom" which uses the News Article module to post the content to his site and the Wellness Newsletter module to send it to his website subscribers). To create these additional accounts (after completing the setup of "Wellness Newsletter") click on the main menu item called "Blogs" then click on "Add Blog Account" then follow the same steps as above and at this point enter the following posting urls:

http://www.yourdomainhere.com/metapost.ashx?key=News Articles

http://www.yourdomainhere.com/metapost.ashx?key=Add Text/HTML

Then continue to the following steps to complete setting up each account.

Then, click next

After hitting next, you’ll see a window like this:

You don’t need to click anything here, this is simply Windows Live Writer processing your details and configuring your blog. You’ll see this pop up, asking whether you’d like Live Writer to detect the theme of your blog. For now, you can click no, because we don’t need this for editing your Wellness Newsletters.

A few moments later you’ll be shown a screen asking to assign a nickname to your blog. You can enter anything you want here, but we advise something simple and recognizable, depending on which part of the site you’re editing. For the Wellness Newsletter blog you could use “(Name of your site) Wellness Newsletter” and very similar for the other accounts.

The box that says “Switch to this blog now” should be ticked by default, if not, click it. Afterwards, hit “Finish” and you’re done creating the blog to edit that part of your site.

Now that you’ve created your blog, you can edit your Newsletters. To do this, first we retrieve the content from your website, like so:

First, click “Open”, which you’ll find near the top of your screen.

This will open the following window, on here find your blog on the left hand side of the screen and click it. That will retrieve the Newsletters from your site and you should now see the following screen. Click which Newsletter you’d like to edit to select it, and then click OK.

You have opened that post, and you will see all the text and any images you may have on there. From here you can edit all the content, including some basic features like changing the font, underline or bold text, etc. However, it is important that you don’t edit any of the technical details on this post. You can change the title, or the image header, but the technical information should not be modified as this creates some of the necessary features of the newsletter including links to your website and the unsubscribe.

After you’ve finished making changes to your Newsletter, click “Publish”, in the top left hand corner of the screen.

That’s how you edit the Newsletter that you’re site will be emailing. Now we’ll show you how to change some of the other parts of your website.

Editing the Wellness Newsletter that is published on your website

Creating your second account if very similar to the first. Now that you have completed the setup of "Wellness Newsletter" you will not be automatically prompted to create an account so you will need to click on the main menu item called "Blogs" then click on "Add Blog Account" then just like setting up the first account follow the exact same steps to create this one.

Here’s a brief recap, refer to the first tab in this article for more detailed instructions, if needed.

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Here is where you’re required to enter the technical details (remote posting url) on this screen:

Select “Metaweblog API”, like always, and type in the following in the text box:

http://www.yourdomainhere.com/metapost.ashx?key=News Articles

This time you’ll click “Yes” on the pop up box. This enables you to see how your articles will look on your site, before publishing them.

That could take a few moments, and then you’ll be taken to the screen where you’ll assign a nickname. Again, something simple like “Name of your site – edit articles” is a good idea.

After clicking “Finish”, you can then edit your Wellness Newsletters. The same way as before, click “Open”, find your Articles blog, and find the newsletter you want to edit (the Filter posts function is useful here). Your newsletters should look something like this:

You can edit all the text and images here, using the simple word editing tools you can change the font, underline and bold parts of your text, etc.

In the bottom right hand corner of the screen, you’ll see a small box that says “Set publish date”. Click it, and you’ll be shown a calendar, where you can select when you want your article to be published.

Once you’ve finished making any required changes to the article, hit “Publish” in the top left hand corner of your screen.

Editing the text on your site

Almost any of the text on your site can be edited how you see fit. To do this, it’s very similar to how we created the blog for your Newsletters. In fact, you can follow the very same steps from the beginning of this document, up until you’re required to enter the technical details. Here’s a brief recap, refer to the top of the document again for more instructions, if needed.

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The next screen is where we do things differently to before. This is how it looks when we first see it:

Again, select “Metaweblog API” from the dropdown menu. But in the text box we enter something different this time. We’re creating this blog to edit text on your site so enter the following:

http://www.yourdomainhere.com/metapost.ashx?key=Add Text/HTML

You’ll then see the same pop up as before, and again, click no.

As before, enter a nickname for this blog, remember that it’ll be used to edit the text on your website, so you could use “(Name of your site) – edit text”. Then click finish.

Once you’ve created your blog, it’s the same process as before to edit the content. On Live Writer, click “Open”. This time however, on the left hand side of the pop up window, find your recently created Text blog. After selecting it, you’ll see several posts, referring to all the different text on your website. Helpfully, on each post it says where on your site it is located, so you should be able to find the exact text you want to edit, and hit OK to open it. You can also use the “Filter posts” function, to quickly find the page you’d like to edit.

Once you’ve made the required changes to the text, as before, click “Publish” on the top left hand corner of the screen, and it will post the updated content to your site.