What and why
Web logs or blogs are:
Easy to create and maintain
Make the delivery of information simple and social
A simple way to establish or be part of a community
The nuts and bolts
Starting out
Murdoch uses a wordpress system at : http://blogs.murdoch.edu.au/
Click on Get a new blog to start
Create your blog
Choose the url whatihadforbreakfast
Living with diabetes
You can’t change the URL once you have chosen
You can change the title later
Choose the blog title
Set your privacyYou can change the privacy setting later
Agree to the terms of service and create your blog
Ok, you have blog
You can now log into your blog through the red login button from the front page or at the bottom of any page by clicking on dashboard
The post screen
Killer penguins spotted at the post office
Does anyone know about the penguins?The ABC reported that some of them were sporting laser guided heat seeking herrings :http:abc.com.au/freakingpenguins
Add the title to your post
Add your content
Tags and Categories
Category – each post must have one
Tags – entirely optional but used to refine the information in the post
For example:
Category : Local news
Tags: Killer penguins, laser guided heat seeking herring, assault on post office
Draft or Publish?
You can’t take back a post, once its on the net it may stay there forever.Use the Save Draft feature until you are ready to publish.Subscribers getting multiple copies of slightly altered blogs just makes you look unprofessional.
Adding widgets
Choose the widget you want and then click on Add, modify if required and then Save Changes
Plugins
Add cool stuff to your blog.Plugins are site wide and sometimes may require
outside registration for activation
Some plugins have customisable settings
For example gdstar rating allows people to rate your posts and comments
The settingsGeneral you can change the title of the blog and the tagline also
Discussion lets you decide how you and others comment on the blog posts, you can choose to moderate the comments yourself or just have the conversation flow freely.
In privacy you can set the level of access there is to your blog, the top makes your blog visible to the entire world. The administrators setting will mean effectively only you will be able to see it.
hyperlinking
In the post write your hyperlink text, and click on the hyperlink button
Paste the link url, set if the item should open a new window and if you wish set a hover title, then click insert to finish
killerpenguinsgonewild.com
The horror, oh god, the horror
Linking to an image
Locate the image on the internet then click on add media
Click on From URL, paste your link and add a title, then click insert into post. This will create a hyperlink to the picture.
Uploading an image
Locate the image on the internet then click on add media
Click on Select files, then locate the file on your computer
Highlight the file and click open
Add in the title, caption and alignment, then click Insert into post
Your image will be inserted
Embedding a youtube video
4. Switch back to visual mode and add the full title as it appears on youtube , it is also customary to hyperlink to the item. 1. go to youtube and copy the embed code for the video
2.Edit your post and switch from visual to html3.Paste the embed code into the html screen
Commenting
Scroll to the bottom of the page and you will see a the comments on a blog or a link to add comments
Fill in the comment form
Click on the comments button
Approve the comment
You can then see the responses
RSS feeds
Really Simple Syndication is a way of letting your subscribers know when you have created or updated a post.They can add the rss feed to a rss reader like google reader, netvibes or microsoft outlook.
Two types of rss are required, one to your original post and another to the comments to the blog
Further information
Better blogging tipshttp://www.chrisbrogan.com/ten-secrets-to-better-blogging/Using wordpress videoshttp://www.wordpresstutorials.com/How to use trackbackshttp://revver.com/video/477084/how-to-do-a-trackback-in-wordpress/Blogging ettiquetehttp://blogs.suite101.com/article.cfm/blogging_etiquetteCreative commons and copyright on the webhttp://
www.blogher.com/choosing-copyright-or-creative-commons-your-intellectual-property
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