Blog Hints

Registered Users of the Blog should first go to the Blog website at http://www.joiurneydaybook.com/blog

Just under the small calendar on the right sidebar, find the Login option, which you then click to Login. Enter your user name and password; when you login you are immediately taken to the Dashboard screen. Exit that screen by clicking the Visit SIte link to the right of the Blog heading at the top of that screen. Then you are back at the blog and you are logged in now, and so you are allowed to Edit a page, which means to enter your own material at the top of the page above the entries of others. Here’s how to do it.

At the Blog’s first screen on the top navigation bar, choose the Notes and Journey Daybook page by clicking on it. When you see the page, notice that at its Title you is a small command to (edit). That (edit) link is your key, so click that, and now you are inside of that page where you can now add your own post, both text and images. You can start your entry by choosing the Heading 2 Tab and setting a heading for your post. (DO not change the title of the page, just add a Heading in your post. Dont erase other people’s posts, just make your own contribution at the top, so people can read yours first.)

Once you have added some text and images, then click save in the grey box to the right of your post (never click the Delete Page link there, ONLY click SAVE). You can see how your posting looks by clicking on the View this Page in the blue box above the grey save box. You can return to work on your entry by again clicking on (edit page), as described above.

Some help in fomating your post is found below in further Blog Hints.

Managing your Posted Material’s Appearance

When you write a Post, be sure that you see 2 rows of icons above the Posting box. To toggle between one row and two rows, click on the Icon that looks like a tiny color palette and is called Kitchen Sink, if you hover your cursor above it. The TWO ROWS of icons (hover and you and see their names) represent fairly standard ways of making material look and behave certain ways. You have seen some of these icons in word processing programs, and it’s particularly important to use these icons for styling in your post, because these icons create effects that work on the internet in html, a basic code that browsers such as Explorer, Firefox, and Safari understand.

How to Insert a Link into your Post

When you are writing a post or a comment and you want to create a link to a site on the web, you do the following:

Select the words in your post that will be the link. A chain link appears in the box above your post, and you click on this icon. That click produces a box into which you can insert the linked address on the internet, and it should have the form of http://www.somewebsite.com. Underneath that address, click on the Target choice that indicates that you want your link to Open link in a new window, and then when you click on Insert, your selected text becomes an active link. Then, as always, click on save and publish and your post will become part of the blog.

Behold! You will have provided the readers of your post an active, clickable link to a location on the web.

Linking to a pdf file (or other file) in your post

First login, then visit the Blog (page one) or other pages and click on Edit near the top. In the posting box you have the option to Add Media at the top of the box. To upload a pdf file click on the star, which brings up a box that allows you to choose a file on your computer to upload to the blog server. Click on Browser Uploader for Mac owners and then click on Files to Upload and then select the file on your computer that you want uploaded and then click on Upload. That file now goes into you Media Library on the blog.

To make a link to that file in a post, click again on the Add Media Star icon, at the top of the new box, click on Media Library (which has several pages), click along in the Media Library pages until you find the file you just uploaded, click on Show next to that file, and in the box that pops up give the file a title and then click on insert into Post. The title will be inserted and act as a link to the pdf file.

Commenting to the Posts in the Blog (page one)

You need to log in to the blog to write your own post with or without images. First login, then visit the Blog (page one) or other pages and click on Edit near the top. Insert your text or image.