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I just put a new “Magazine Style” theme on Mobilitysite.com this weekend. When I refreshed the style properties for the blog in Windows Live Writer, the excerpt list of the most recent articles took over as the layout for Windows Live Writer. What this did was make the theme look really skinny. The WYSIWYG aspect of Windows Live Writer is rendered useless with this layout. The frontpage only shows a 335px wide excerpt of the 10 most recent posts (above left). When you actually read the article though, you have a spacious 610px to work with (above right). The problem is that the 335px view that is present in WLW now makes formatting the post guesswork. There has to be a way to fix this. Here’s how I did it.

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