blogging 101

Greetings!  The short screencasts below will walk you though the set up process of a blog using blogger.  To begin, you need to be sure you have an account with Google.  So go ahead and set one up if you haven't done so already.

Part 1 - setting up your account & basic posting


Part 2 - posting continued & settings


Part 3 - settings continued & permissions


Part 4 - changing the look of your blog


Part 5 - uploading images to you blog


You may also want to set up a Google Reader account to aggregate the posts of your classmates.  For details on how google reader works, watch the video below.


Please contact me if you need any additional help or if you have any questions whatsoever.

HAPPY BLOGGING!

tech tidbit: blogger dynamic views are awesome!

Have you all heard about this?  You can change your blog view to one of these dynamic views simply by attaching /view to your blog's address!  The results are stunning!  See the video below.




For more information consult blogger help.  Here's a screenshot of the how to page:

So, once you do this people can have the option of viewing your website in a variety of ways.  Here are screenshots of how this look when applied to Visual Literati.

TIMESLIDE MODE

SIDEBAR MODE

MOSAIC MODE

SNAPSHOT MODE

FLIPBOOK MODE

I think that mosaic might be my favorite.  Its so easy, you should try it NOW!

blogger tips: opening links in a new window

Blogger's standard link mode may lead readers of your blog off to another site... and potentially not back to where they came from.  Adding links which open in new windows or tabs isn't as hard as you might think. You do have to edit a bit of the html code, but its pretty easy.  The youtube clip below demonstrates the process beautifully.