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Educators often don’t want their students to use their own email address for creating online accounts. Unfortunately unique email addresses are important for password resets and deleting blogs. The gmail+ method provides the solution!  How it works is you create one gmail account for your class. For example, mathiscool@gmail.com or room16@gmail.com. Then you use your [...]

There are key differences between pages and posts that are important to understand when working with them. Properties of posts are: Blog posts appear in reverse chronological order so that the most recent post is the first post that your readers see Posts are dynamic (updated regularly) and have time stamps i.e. display the date [...]

They are key differences between pages and posts that are important to understand when working with them. Properties of pages are: Blog pages are displayed independently of post history and are more static i.e. remain the same from day to day since they are rarely updated You normally use pages for information that you want [...]

You can insert an image into a post from an image located somewhere else on the Internet using  your Insert/Edit Image button . Locating the Image URL For Internet Explorer To locate the image URL using Internet Explorer you need to right click on the image and then click on Properties. For FireFox To locate [...]

The concept behind a blog tagline is to create a memorable phrase that sums up the tone and premise of a blog.  The tagline is normally displayed just below the blog title. Ideally all blogs should have a tagline since they instantly tell first time readers what your blogs all about and whether you write [...]

When you upload an image you are given three versions that you can insert into the post: Thumbnail (150 x 150 pixels) Medium (300 x 300 pixels) Full Size You are able to change the size of thumbnail and medium sized images under Settings > Miscellaneous. When you insert an image into a post using [...]

Reading blog posts that talks about other bloggers’ posts but doesn’t include links to them is really frustrating for readers. Why? Because readers like to follow the links and check out the information in more detail but without the links they can’t! All you have to do is: Copy the URL of the post you [...]

When you paste text written in Word into blog posts brings in lots of extra code.  Normally this makes your post’s font and formatting look unattractive plus may add extra words you haven’t written.  In extreme cases it can prevent your blog loading in Internet Explorer. Let me show you! This sentence was written in [...]