Tips for posting on the blog

When you login you start at a place called Dashboard. Then you click on new post for the Huitema blog. You can also edit previously created posts, or delete any doubles that you make (hummingbird, I deleted your double post). If you save your post without publishing it is saved as a draft. You can then go back and edit it and then post it. You can also clean things up by deleting drafts you have no intention of posting. Finally, Carly and Marianne have admin privileges and go fiddle with anyone's post.

So you are at the page for adding a new post. Write a title. To add pictures there should be a picture icon (mouse over the icons, hold it still for a few seconds and words describing what the button does should pop up). Then you upload your photos.

You can see a tab - one labeled Edit HTML which is where you can directly edit the HTML of the page. The other tab is Compose, this one shows the picture instead of the code for the picture and may be easier to work with. Fianlly, Preview lets you see what the blog would look like, you can't edit this preview, be sure to click Hide Preview so you can save your post and publish it.

Finally, "Labels for this post" are where you can give your posts generally subject information like: humour, trip, Australia, summer, dog etc. If things are tagged consistently (with good general tags) it means you could go and pull out all the posts tagged trip.

Finally, if there are other Huitema's that want in on this blog thing, send me an e-mail (or Marianne) so we can send you an invite. Then you automatically get added to the blog.