MAKIN’ BLOGS

1. GO TO TUSDCTE.ORG

2. LOGIN USING THE USERNAME AND PASSWORD YOU CREATED

3. CLICK ON “MY SITES” 4. HOVER OVER YOUR SITE AND CLICK ON “DASHBOARD”

4.5 IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A NEW SITE WITH A NEW ADDRESS CLICK “ADD NEW”

5. GO TO APPEARANCE TO CUSTOMIZE YOUR BLOG THEME AND STYLES

THEME WILL CHANGE THE OVERALLLAYOUT OF YOUR WEBSITE

CUSTOMIZE WILL LET YOU CHOOSE DIFFERENT COLORS, HEADER IMAGESAND FONTS

6. ONCE YOUR SITE LOOKS GREAT YOU ARE READY TO MAKE YOUR FIRST POST. GO TO ON “+ NEW” AT THE TOP & CHOOSE “POST”

6. ONCE YOUR SITE LOOKS GREAT YOU ARE READY TO MAKE YOUR FIRST POST. GO TO ON “+ NEW” AT THE TOP & CHOOSE “POST”

This is the interface for creating posts with any combination of text and media.

It is a very barebones word processor.

To insert an image, click the “add media” button or simply drop your picture into the text area.

This will take you to the media gallery. Click “upload” to add new files from your computer or click “media library” to see what you have already uploaded.

Here is it what it looks like after uploading two files. At this point you can simply insert or take the time to create a gallery.

Before you insert an image, you can change settings and information in the window tothe right.

The display settings below let you choose alignment and size.

Here is what the post creator looks like after inserting the images.You can still addtext above or below the images.

Clicking “preview” shows us what our final post will look like.

In this example, two more photographs were uploaded and “create gallery” was selected from the top left. Afterwards, “create a new gallery” was selected on the bottom right.

Here is what the post creator looks like after inserting the gallery.You can still addtext above or below the gallery.

This is what clicking “preview” tells us our final post will look like.

When you are done, click “publish” and your post will be live! If you are not done, click “save draft” so you do not lose your work.

Your First Post:

1.Subject: Introduction2.Your preferred name and a picture of yourself (use

photobooth)3.Previous Photography experience (do you own a

camera?).4.Previous Photoshop experience.

5.Where do you find inspirational photographs?6.An interesting fact about yourself.

BROWSE GALLERIES IN viewbug.com& 500px.com

Find one photograph to represent each genre that we discussed.

Create a blog post using the photos that you found.

Under each image in your post, answer the following questions:

What is the photograph of? (be specific)

Why does it fall under the genre that you chose?

What about this image is appealing to you?

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