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December 30, 2004
Posting to the blog
Here are some very fine blog directions provided by the Inestimable Madeline to my 109 students last semester; I shamelessly patchwrite from them here:
There are two sites involved in this blogging business. The first is the actual blog itself, where you go to read posts. (You've already been there; otherwise, you wouldn't be reading this!) The second site is the one where you go to create your own posts.
- Click "create entry."
- Enter text in "entry body." Enter a title for the post. Ignore the "extended entry" and "excerpt" fields.
- Choose an appropriate category for your post.
- Enter the text for your post.
- Go to the bottom of the page and under "post status" select "publish."
- Click the dialog box for "accept trackback pings."
- Click "Save." Now your entry exists. You have now posted to the blog!!
A few notes: it is always safe to type your entry in Word (and save it!!) and then copy/paste it into the "entry body" field. This way, if you misnavigate or accidentally close the browser window before you've published/saved the post, you can recover your work.Also, if you "view blog" and you don't see your post, you can log back in and "rebuild files," which simply refreshes all new posts and changes, etc. You shouldn't have to do this, but we're finding that once in a while a post fails to show up immediately unless you tell it to rebuild.
This is the bare bones of entry posting. If you want to create links or embellish the text in your post, you can use HTML tags in the entry body.
Posted by senioritis at December 30, 2004 10:07 AM
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