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User Roles and Changing a User’s role

This post written by Sue Waters in Monday,August 24th 2009   Comments Off
When you set up a blog with multiple users you have the ability to assign and control what other users can do in the blog depending on the tasks you want each user to be responsible for. You need to consider carefully what role you assign ...read more»
Filed under: Managing users and their roles      Tags: Administrator, Author, Changing yuser role, Contributor, Editor, Subscriber, User, Users   

Using Your Own Domain

This post written by Sue Waters in Wednesday,August 12th 2009   Comments Off
Edublogs Supporters can use their own custom domain names at no extra charge! And it's easy to use a custom Domain Name with your Edublogs blog (such as ourblog.com in place of ourblog.edublogs.org). Edublogs supports several options for custom domain mapping: 1) Full-domain mapping (e.g. ourblog.com) 2) Sub-domain mapping ...read more»
Filed under: Uncategorized         

Writing your About Page

This post written by Sue Waters in Saturday,August 1st 2009   2 Comments
An About page is where readers find out more about you and your blog. Readers often use it to decide whether to bother subscribing to a blog. When you set up a new Edublogs blog it automatically comes set up with an 'About page'. Readers access ...read more»
Filed under: Getting your blog design right, Working with posts and pages      Tags: About, About Page   

What is a Pingback?

This post written by Sue Waters in Saturday,August 1st 2009   Comments Off
A pingback happens when another blogger writes a post and includes a link to your post in their post. When they publish their post you’ll normally receive an email notification letting you know they have referenced (i.e. linked to) your post. The email notification commonly ...read more»
Filed under: Comments and comment settings      Tags: Email Notification, Link, Ping, Pingback, Trackback   

Scheduling A Post For a Later Date

This post written by Sue Waters in Thursday,July 30th 2009   Comments Off
You can schedule posts to be published when you want whether it be a specific time, few days or weeks. It’s really simple to do — only takes 4 simple steps! Once you have written your post just: Click on Edit link next to Publish Immediately in the ...read more»
Filed under: Working with posts and pages      Tags: Posts, Schedule, Schedule post, Timestamp   

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»
Filed under: Managing users and their roles      Tags: gmail, students   

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   
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