This guide will hopefully explain how you can post on the Grace lent blog for 2007.
Get an account
To post on the website you will need to create an account. Click here to go to the registration page. Enter a Username and your email address, then follow the instructions in the email you receive.
Before you can create a blog post the permissions on your login need to be changed. Please email Adam and let him know your user name and he'll set the permissions.
login and start a new post
Once you have an account and the permissions are set, then you are ready to post.
The first step is to login - use the Login/register link on the left hand side of website, enter your username and password.
Once logged in you will see a fairly blank page telling you how long you have been a member. On the left a new box has appeared with your user name as the title at the top of it. In this box click the link 'create content'. The next page gives you the option of creating a story or an image. Click on 'Story'. This will give you a blank form to create your blog post.
Entering your post and formatting it
First thing is to give your post a title. Enter your title in the box at the top of the form.
(Next ignore the 'blog cats' drop down box - it can only be set to Lent Blog 2007)
Then type (or cut and paste) your post into the main 'Body' box.
You can format your text by adding simple commands. To find out more you can look at the 'More information about formatting options'.
have a look at this image for more clues:
adding images
(This assumes you have the image you want to add on your PC)
To add an image into your text, position your cursor at the postion you want the image to appear and press the green cross at the bottom of the box.
A pop-up window will appear. In this new window click on 'Add Image' in the top left of the window.
In the next form that appears, give your image a Title and Description. Find the image by pressing the 'browse' (or 'choose file') button. Find the image on your computer and select it. Once you have chosen the image, and entered the information press 'Submit'.
This will take you back to the first page in the pop-up window. Now scroll down the list to find your image by its title, click on the title. At the bottom of the window a new set of options appears. Choose if you want your image to appear fullsize or as a thumbnail, then press 'insert image', this will close the window and put a line of code, wrapped in square brackets [], into your text. Next time you preview your entry you will see your image appears where this line of code is.
Preview your post
Once you're happy with your post you can preview it by clicking the preview button at the bottom.
This will show your entry with the form at the bottom for you to make corrections and changes.
You can keep previewing as many times as you like.
You must submit your post before you leave, otherwise it will not be saved.
submitting your post
To save your post you press 'Submit' button at the bottom of the page.
your entry will appear on the front page of the website and at www.freshworship.org/lentblog07
All done? or did you get something wrong?
That's it... all done and dusted... Unless you've made a big mistake!
In that case whilst logged in go to the page for your entry, this can easily be got to by clicking on the title of your post on the front page.
At the top of your entry there will be tabs for view and edit. Press edit and you'll see the editing form to correct your mistakes.
Tell your friends
Of course once you are really finally happy, tell your friends. email them the link for the lent blog: www.freshworship.org/lentblog07 - they can also pick up the RSS feed using the orange XML button of the lent blog page.