Well, I guess I got a little bit ahead of myself when I posted about using Windows Live Writer to manage your blog posting. I probably should have posted an article about how to configure your blog and to manage it using the web interface. For the purpose of this lesson, we'll use an imaginary blog called Meerschaum Musings.
The first thing you'll after you log into your administration URL is the following screen:
From this screen, you'll want to click first on the Options tab. On the Options page, you'll have access to the following options: Configure, Syndication, Comments, Key Words, Password and Preferences.
You should only need to select Configure the first time you enter your site and set up the options that will control the look and feel of your site. The options that are available to you include the Title and Subtitle, which appear in the header of your page, the username (should be no need to change this) and the Owner's Display Name and email address. You have the choice to use whatever you'd like for these fields but please don't make the name offensive as this would be contradictory to the nature of this blog community.
The next section you can try that will affect your blog's look and feel is to choose a display skin. The easiest way to envision these is to either select one, save your change and then view the site in another browser. Alternatively, you can check the SubText skin site for the default skins or any custom skins you'd like to see us add to the list.
The remaining portions of the admin gives you the ability to set your locale and a few other settings that are pretty much self-explanatory. The News/Announcements section are displayed in some skins, usually at the top of the right right of the site. For example, on the Tobacco Barn blog, you'll find it in the top right rail.
The Custom CSS field will allow you to override certain aspects of the site. This allows you to change the look and feel of certain elements of your chosen display skin. The use of this feature will be addressed in a future blog posting.
The Syndication option allows you to manage various aspects of how your content (blog postings) are made available to people. For the most part, the only thing you should need to change will be to select Enable Syndication. The other options have descriptions next to them that you can read by clicking on the question mark 
next to each option's label/title.
The Comments section controls how your readers can communicate with you through the site. Most of our customers will just click the Enable Comments, Enable Trackbacks and either Moderate Comments or Enable Captcha. If you Enable Captcha, you are allowing the system to determine if the person submitting the comment is a real person or a spam-bot. We recommend instead that our bloggers select the Moderate Comments. When this option is selected, you will be emailed to moderate any new incoming comments as they are posted. They will not show on the site until you've given the thumbs up to the content of the comment.
The Preferences option page allows you to define various aspects of how the administration site works for you. How you set these is entirely up to you. The first option defines whether you want an article published (visible to the outside world)) as soon as you save it or if you'd rather work on multiple revisions of it before explicitly publishing it by checking the Publish checkbox under Advanced Options. The Always Expand option will determine whether or not the Advanced Options section shows on the Add/Edit Post page. The Auto-Generate Friendly URL will give your blog posts a name that is more people and search engine friendly. The URL will be generated based on the title of the particular article. Check the URL of this page for an example.
That's about it for now. We'll do Manage Your Blog via Web Interface hopefully over the weekend that will assist with managing your blog postings.