Archive for February, 2009
Creating Student Accounts Using One Gmail Account
This post written by Sue Waters in Friday,February 27th 2009 4 Comments
If your students don’t have email addresses the simplest solution is to set up their accounts using one Gmail account and then add a + sign and a different number and/or letter(s) to the end of your email name for each student.
How it works is ...read more»
What Are The Properties Of A Post?
This post written by Sue Waters in Friday,February 13th 2009 No Comment
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 ...read more»
Filed under: Tackling tags and categories, Working with posts and pages
Tags: Categories, Page, Post, Tags
What Are The Properties of A Page?
This post written by Sue Waters in Friday,February 13th 2009 No Comment
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 ...read more»
Filed under: Tackling tags and categories, Working with posts and pages
Tags: Categories, Category, Page, Post, Tag
How Do I Link To An Image URL?
This post written by Sue Waters in Friday,February 13th 2009 2 Comments
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 ...read more»
Filed under: Working with posts and pages
Tags: FireFox, Image, Image URL, Images, Insert/Edit Image, Internet Explorer
What Is A Tagline?
This post written by Sue Waters in Thursday,February 12th 2009 No Comment
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 ...read more»
Filed under: Getting your blog design right
Tags: Tagline
Image Width and Blog Posts
This post written by Sue Waters in Thursday,February 12th 2009 1 Comment
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 ...read more»
How To Link To Other Bloggers Posts
This post written by Sue Waters in Thursday,February 12th 2009 3 Comments
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 ...read more»
Why You Shouldn’t Write Your Posts Using Word
This post written by Sue Waters in Thursday,February 12th 2009 No Comment
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 ...read more»
Filed under: Working with posts and pages
Tags: Word
