Monday, September 24

Blogging; new keys (M & X)

On Friday you created a new page on your blog.  Many of you, once you published your page, were unable to access your newly created page on your blog.  One of the settings of the blog is to "hide" the blog pages so they are not visible.  If you want to make your blog pages visible, follow these steps:
  1. Click on "Design" in the top right corner
  2. Click on "Pages"
  3. In the middle it says "Show pages as:" - you will want to choose either "Top Tabs" or "Side Links" so that your pages are able to be seen from your home page.
  4. Once you have changed this setting, click on "Save Arrangement" in the top right corner of the page
Towards the bottom left-hand side of this same page you can see several different choices that will help you to modify your blog so that you can make it look like you want.  For example, "Layout" allows you to add, remove, and edit gadgets on your blog so that your blog appeals to your audience.  Again, click on "Save Arrangement" when you have your blog as you want it.

Additionally, if you click on "Template" you can change how your blog looks.  I'm not going to spend a ton of time going through all the possibilities here because there are too many.  But, this is where you will want to go if you want to change the look of your blog.  Background image, color, theme, font size, font style and many other options are available here to personalize your blog.  I would highly recommend you stay away from the "Dynamic Views" templates - these are not as easy to edit, so the frustration level with using these is usually very high.

One note - this is not "Change your blog look" class, so you will not be spending every minute in this class working on doing something to your blog.  You have access to your blog at home, so if you need to make changes plan on making them there.

After we get done with our blogs, open up Microsoft Word.  We will be learning the M (R1) and the X (L3).  These are challenging letters - keeping your fingers curved and upright will greatly help in learning these two bottom-row keys.

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