Posted on Sunday, 22nd July 2007 by BadgerBlogger
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Blogging How-to
Just a few tips on how to make your first post at badgerBlogger.com. After you are registered and I change your status to allow you to post, just follow these few directions to guide you through making your first post.
On the top right corner of the blog you will see a section labeled Administration, you will see a link to Login, or if you are already logged in, you will see the link to Site Admin, click the link and it will sign you into the inner workings of the blog.
From here, you can click one of the links to Write or Write a post (they both take you to the same place).
Once on the Write Post page (you can bookmark this page for quicker access) you will see the editor, which looks like many email editors. Just add your Title and the text of your post. When you have what you want, click the Publish button, after a second or two, it will take you to either a blank page, or on some browsers it may be an error page, but don’t worry, your post has been made, you can go back to the main page of the blog and see it (refresh if you don’t see the change).
You will see an Edit link on the posts you have made, you can click that and edit your post or any typos you made.
That’s It! Really, that is all you really need to know. After this paragraph, I have some tips on working the buttons etc, but that is all just polish, you are now officially bloggers.
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Getting back to the Write Post page, the editor is a basic WYSIWYG editor.So, to make a link, highlight the text that you want to be clickable, then click the link button (looks like a chain on the tool bar), this opens a box that allows you to add the link address, and it will make the link for you.
To make quoted text indented, you can use the button with the arrow pointing in. Just copy and paste any text (like from a news article), highlight it and click the button, it will then indent the text for you, making a blockquote.
If you want bold text, just highlight the text with your mouse, then click the B on the tool bar. All the other buttons work this way too, feel free to play around with the buttons, you can’t break anything. If you are comfortable with HTML, there is a button that allows you to write your own code freehand.
If you need to save something, there are buttons to Save and Save and Continue Editing, these can be very handy if you can’t finish a long post, or if you want to do more research etc.
Below the editor, there is an image uploader, this will allow you to upload pictures to the blog, just upload the image, then click the image and choose the options you want to insert the picture into your post. Try to keep the pictures under 500px. wide, otherwise it throws the page out of wack, but it won’t hurt anything if you do.
As for all of the other buttons and settings, you really don’t have to worry about those, they aren’t going to be needed in every day blogging, but again, you can’t break anything, so go ahead and explore.
