GETTING YOUR PLACE ON THE WEB

Saturday, September 26, 2009

Some Thoughts

Have you looked at the suggested list of SN sites for ones that serve your purposes?

Have you tried Yahoo groups(e.g. Portland groups), Grandparents groups, or Craigslist forums to find people with similar interests?

Do you think the class should undertake a class project?

I would like to do a video of the class doing a skit or something. Any ideas?

If you have suggestions for the class please lets hear them. Our purposes are to become familiar with social networking and create our personal space on the web.

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Checking Backlinks

Wanto know who linked to your blog? Use Back Links: Back links help

Monetize or Add Ads

Personally, I do not like these. If you only have a few people viewing you blog it is not worth it. If your blog gets hundreds of viwers you might want to consider it. Monetize is one of the tabs and more info is in MONETIZE.

Using Labels

You can indes you posts by topic using LABELS. For instance, if you want to find all of your
posts about Maine you will be able to if you put Maine in the Label box of each post. For more information: LABELS.

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Souping up Your Blog

Here are some more advanced things you might want to add to your blog. They require a bit more work and use other sites.

Tagboards, Guest Books, Smilies and Emoticon, Recieve Voice messages via your blog and Post Messages via your blog.

Putting Sound on Blogger

Blogger does not offer sound and getting it is not easy, but it can be done. Follow this HELP.

Publish your Book

Check out Blurb if you want to compile your image materials into a book inexpensively.

Saturday, September 19, 2009

On-Line Editor Pixlr

Pixlr can be used as a free Photoshop substitute. Plus it is free, fast, and online. There are add-ons for Firefox if you use a lot of images.

Friday, September 18, 2009

Adding an Image Using New Editor

Adding an image from your computer:

Follow same steps as in old Editor except be sure to click on the picture that appears in the window.

Adding an image from the web:

For now, it is easier to to go to settings and select the old Editor and then upload the image.

If you do need an image from the web, work around it by uploading the image to your computer:
Right click on selected image.
Select Save Image as...
Type in a meaningful file name.
Save.
Go to New Post.
Click on image and download the image from your computer

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

GOOGLE-411

I know this is not a Blogger item, but it is rather neat.
GOOGLE-411 is a free service to get information about local businesses using your phone.

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

What is BlogThis!

What is BlogThis! ? - Blogger Help

Go to site and add this to your toolbar so you can blog without getting your blog.
Obviously, if you want this feature, you will need to do it on your own computer.

Adding a Video to Your Blog

Sample video from computer.

Sample film: Star

First make sure toolbar has film icon.
If it is not there, you have selected the new editor. For this class go to Settings and under Global Settings select old editor.

Click on film icon.
For uploading your own videos, browse to where I you have filed your videos.
Add a title.
Agree to terms.
Click on Upload Video.
Wait!
Publish Post.

For getting films from Youtube or other websites, use this url: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcMeXCpRIUA

Adding a Picture (old Editor)

Most times you will add picture from your "My Pictures" on you computer or from a photo site you have subscribed to such as Picassa or Flikr.

To add a picture from your computer:
Go to New Post.
Click on the picture icon in the toolbar.
Go to Brouse.
Select your picture.
Choosea Lout and Image Size.
Click Upload.
Your image should appear.
Click Done

To Add a Picture from the Web.
We will get a picture from my Picassa Web Album.
Select a picture
Copy its url by right clicking on the image.
Click Properties.
Copy the URL
Return to Blogger Post
Paste the url into the box.
Select the Location and Size
Click Done.
The picture should show.

Pictures added to your blog should be fairly small or else they will take forever to load and in some cases be rejected if too large. Irfanview will resize pictures and make sure they are in JPG or TIFF format as will Picasa and some other programs.

Graphics and photos can be edit using the free program GIMP.