Working with Posts
1. Posts are like journal entries. They are time-based and will appear in reverse chronological order on your blog. You can add, delete and modify posts by using the Posts menu.
2. Posts can contain all sorts of attachments, including images and documents. To incorporate these kinds of documents you can use the “Add media” buttons at the top of the post page. These four buttons (add image, add video, add audio and add media) let you upload files from your computer and incorporate them into your posts.
3. After you upload a document you will be given the option to ‘save all changes’ or ‘insert into post’. Inserting the item into your post will cause wordpress to link a copy of the document into the body of the current post. Clicking save will save the file that you just uploaded into your “Gallery” and will not be visibile via your post. If you accidentally click the ‘Save’ button you can always click on the ‘Add Media’ button and then on the ‘Gallery’ title. Click ‘show’ next to the item you wish to insert, and then click on ‘Insert into post’ to insert the item into the currently active post.
4. Note that if you are linking in a file-based resource (i.e. PDF or Word document) you should click the ‘File URL’ before you click the ‘Insert Post’ button.
Creating Hyperlinks
1. You can link to other sites on the Internet or other areas of your blog by inserting a hyperlink. To do this, open up a post and highlight the text that you want to turn into a link.
2. Next, click the ‘add link ‘button (looks like a small chain link) – type or copy/paste the URL of the page you wish to link to in the box that appears.
Working with Pages
1. Blogger Pages are like traditional webpages. Unlike posts, they are not time based and they will always appear in a fixed location on your blog. The location is dependent on the theme that you selected. Pages are best used for “static” content that will not change very often.
2. Pages can be added, deleted and modified by visiting the Pages menu.
3. Pages can contain images and documents just like a post.
Widgets
1. Widgets are used to control the layout of the sidebars of your page.
2. The sidebars are static and will not change no matter which page you visit in your site. They provide a constant frame of reference.
3. The widget panel can be accessed by visiting the Appearance menu and clicking on the ‘Widget’ menu.
4. There are many widgets to choose from and they are listed along the left hand side of the widget menu.
5. Depending on the theme that you chose you may have more than one sidebar in which you can place widgets.
6. You can select the sidebar you wish to work with by using the drop down menu on the right side o the screen.
7. You can add a widget to the sidebar by dragging the desired widget into the corresponding sidebar.
8. You can reorder widgets by dragging and dropping them.
Embedding YouTube Videos
1. Go to Youtube.com and find the video you like
2. There is a button that says SHARE at the bottom of each video
3. Click on the share button
4. Click on the embed button
5. Copy the embed code
6. Paste the embed code in the EDIT HTML part of your post.
7. Publish your post and watch the video right off of your post.
