PART 2: HEADERS, POSTS, LINKS AND COMMENTS

Changing the Header Image

1. A theme such as ‘Twenty Eleven’ (which is recommended for this tutorial) has a header image.  You can change it.
2. Go to the blog website, and click on ‘Log In’ on the right hand side lower down.
3. Type in your username and password and click ‘Log In’.
4. You’ll then see a big menu-style screen (called a dashboard).  Set up two tabs so that the website can be seen in another tab.
5. In the Dashboard tab, the column down the left-side of the page is the main menu for the Dashboard.
6. Click on ‘Appearance’, and then on ‘Header’.
7. You will find a number of picture options for your Header image, each with a ‘radio’ button next to it.  Just select the picture you want by clicking on its ‘radio’ button.
8. Alternatively, if you have uploaded any images to your ‘Media Library’, you can choose one of these to be your Header Image.
9. Click on ‘Save changes’ at the bottom.

 

Publishing a post on your blog.

1. Understand the ideas of using tabs, and cursor positions.
2. Go to the blog website, and click on ‘Log In’ on the right hand side lower down.
3. Type in your username and password and click ‘Log In’.
4. You’ll then see a big menu-style screen (called a dashboard).  Set up two tabs so that the website can be seen in another tab.
5. In the Dashboard tab, the column down the left-side of the page is the main menu for the Dashboard.
6. Click on ‘Posts’, and then on ‘New Post’.
7. Type in a title, maybe something like “My Thoughts” or “Where could this go?” or just simply “Introducing…”, then in the main typing box if you don’t have an idea of your own just introduce yourself and how you feel about this blog.
8. This main text for the post that is under the title is called the ‘body’ of the post, or the ‘body text’.
9. Click ‘Publish’, and then check the blog by clicking on the website tab and  pressing the ‘F5’ key.  Great, isn’t it?  Its live for the world to read/see!
10. If you were not ready to publish, you could have clicked on ‘Save draft’, and then you would be able to carry on with it another time.

 

Updating a post on your blog.

1. In the Dashboard tab, click on ‘Posts’, and then on ‘All Posts’ in the menu column down the left-side of the page.
2. Then click on the title of your post.
3. Add some more words or make some changes to this post.
4. Click ‘Update’, and then check the blog by clicking on the website tab and  pressing the ‘F5’ key.

 

Adding a link to any post or web-page.

1. To create a link from any text on your post, first copy the link from the web-address (URL) bar at the top of your web browser.  To do this, highlight this web-address, right-click the pointer on top of it, and select ‘Copy’.
2. Then, when editing the post firstly highlight the text that will become the link (eg. it might say “Click Here”).
3. Then click on the ‘Insert/edit link’ button (a chain icon above the body text).
4. Then right-click in the box which says “http:// “ and select ‘Paste’.  The web-address will appear in this box.
5. Click on ‘Add link’.
6. Click ‘Publish’, and then check the blog by clicking on the website tab and  pressing the ‘F5’ key.

 

Add a comment.

1. Find anyone else’s post in the blog,
2. click on ‘Leave a comment’ at the end of their post and then type in a reply about it, then click on ‘Post Comment’.