Creating posts
(the core of the blog)
To create a new post, you have to access to the blog as an author, and then, click on 'New Post':
The page that appears offers two tabs: 'Edit HTML' and 'Write':
The HTML tab will be used just to paste pieces of code that will be needed to post videos, slideshows, music, gadgets, etc. The 'Write' tab will be used to write posts. Firstly, we can write the title of the post. Moreover, we can add a link for the title:
This link is particularly useful if the majority of posts refer to other blog articles, and if you want to show links to these other blogs in yours. To enable the Link field, you must go to Settings | Format, go to the bottom of the page and select Yes in Show Link field. Next, click Save..
When you begin to write the content of our post, we can use the buttons in the toolbar we can use the buttons in the toolbar. Thus, we can change the font, the font size, write in bold or italic, write using an specific color, enter a link, change the alignment of text, use the check spell or include an image or a video and you can even remove the format.
To include an image in the post with which you are working, you have to click on the picture:
If we add the image from the web, we only need to enter the URL in the correspondent text box. If we add it from our computer, we have to click on the button 'Browse' and a window of Windows Explorer wiil appear. Then, we will be able to select the file that contains the image you want to show. Then, we choose if we want the image to the left, right or centered, the image size and whether we will use the just choosen design always. Click on the button 'Upload Image':
And to finish, you must click on 'Done':
Many times, when uploading an image, it tends to decentralize the text we have written, and even add blank lines. It is a small problem of easy solution. Moreover, the image appears at the beginning of the post, so if you move, you must click on it and drag it to where we want to be seen.
To include videos, you must click on the button above, find the video you want to upload, put title and, if this is the first time you upload videos, accept the terms of uploading:
From 'Create Posts' tab in 'Create' option, we can also manage the options on the comments from readers and the date and time of the post:
You can also add a label to assign to this post or any of the existing labels:
Labels are a way of classifying posts that allow the reader to select only those posts that are related to the item indicated by each label. To add a new label, from the 'Create' tab, just start typing the name of the label on the correspondent text box. If you prefer to sign the post with an existing label, you must click on 'Show all', then click on the labels you want:
If you want to look at how our post will be before publishing, just click on 'Preview':
Finally, once we ended, or simply postpone the post, you just have to publish it or save it as a draft. If you save it (click on 'Save'), the post will be saved as a draft and it will not be publicly visible, while we publish the post (click on 'Publish Now'), then it will be displayed on the blog and any reader will be able to read it:
If we want to check the result of our publication on the web, just click on 'View blog' or 'in a new window':
If you're not seeing the new post or the latest changes, it is quite useful to press the button 'Update page' of browser or press the F5 key or Ctrl + F5.
If you want to change the newly published post, you have to click 'Edit post'. Or if you want to create a new post just click on 'Create a post'.