Donna F's List: BLOGGING

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It consists of a series of articles to introduces you to administering your new Edublogs.org and Edublog Campus blog. Each section comes with illustrative screenshots and explanations, which you can read online or download as a PDF.

Click on a link below:

1. Getting Started

a) Signing up for your blog – PDF version
b) Logging into your blog dashboard – PDF version
c) Using your blog dashboard – PDF version
d) Changing Your Blog’s Look – PDF version

2. Working with Posts

a) Writing your First Post – PDF Version
b) How to insert links in your post – PDF Version
c) Inserting images into your Posts – PDF Version
d) Inserting photo gallery into your Posts – PDF Version
e) Inserting video or audio files into your posts – PDF Version
f) Embedding Videos from Video Sharing Websites into Posts – PDF Version
g) Inserting Documents, PDF and PowerPoints into Posts – PDF Version
h) Adding Categories and Tags into your Posts -
i) Editing Posts - PDF version
j) Scheduling a post for a later date - PDF version
k) Password protecting posts
l) Why you shouldn’t write your post in MS Word – PDF version

3. Working with Comments

a) Engaging with readers through comments – PDF version
b) Controlling who can comment on posts – PDF version
c) Managing, editing and approving comments – PDF version
d) What is a pingback? – PDF version
e) Writing links in comments – PDF version

4. Working with Pages

a) Differences between Posts and Pages – PDF Version
b) Writing Pages – PDF Version
c) What is An About Page – PDF Version
d) How to create a Static Front page for your blog – PDF Version
e) Using Sub pages on blogs – PDF Version
f) Changing page order in your blog’s navigation – PDF Version

5. Enhancing your blog with Themes

a) What to consider when choosing your blog’s theme
b) Changing your blog’s theme
c) Uploading your Custom Image Header

6. Enhancing your blog with Widgets

a) Changing your sidebar widgets
b) Widgets available to different type of blog users
c) Using Standard Widgets – all blog users
d) Using Premium Widgets –

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