Blogging, Part II

[Madeliaette]

stats are up again today - 333 Bird Story
312 Yoga Tap
207 San Francisco Music News

[Lupine]

Just sent scotty a blog entry on Andrew Jackson. Hope he likes it.

[scottydog]

I love it. Can't wait to post it when I return from The Garden State on Monday. Thanks a million, Lupy!!

[RJDiogenes]

Sweet. This will inspire me to get my ass in gear.

[Madeliaette]

that one should be one of interest to me - its a president i have heard of but do not know that much about....

[RJDiogenes]

And my essay on Sidney Poitier has been completed and PM'd at last.

[Lupine]

^Woot!

[scottydog]

Awesome. You guys are the best! I'll post them after I catch up from my trip.

Feel free to pm me a few photos to accompany your essays. Or if you prefer, I'll dig some up.

Many thanks.

[RJDiogenes]

You're welcome. I hope you like it. It probably won't be as controversial as my last one, though. Maybe I should do "Heroism As Fractal Geometry" or something.

I'll see what I can dig up for pictures.

[Lupine]

Feel free to pm me a few photos to accompany your essays. Or if you prefer, I'll dig some up.

Go ahead and dig some up. Pics of Andrew Jackson are a dime a dozen.

[scottydog]

^ Will do! Still catching up but I should be posting AJ soon!

[RJDiogenes]

Well, that gives me plenty of time to find pictures of Sidney Poitier (which shouldn't be too hard, either ).

[emma glitch]

I guess there was a reason I was having trouble trusting the guy who offered to design my blogsite. As soon as I get home from my car's 30,000 mile maintenance, I'll be calling the hosting site's customer service and requesting help, which is what I meant to do last month when he stepped up and told me that before he took the job at the women's business center he was a professional web designer, and would help me set up, no charge. Apparently he wasn't up to the challenge, though, but thought he was getting an opportunity to get a free copy of my whatever the hosting site's instructions are called. Whatever.

Probably I should learn the lingo, so I know how to ask questions that get me the kind of answers I need. I have a handle on "domain name" and am vaguely aware that I chose a hosting site, but after that, yikes! Content is piling up, and I need to find out how to post it, which probably requires formatting, but it's about time I learned how to that, right?

[scottydog]

^ Good luck resolving this issue, emma. You're right, he wasn't up to the challenge.

Just posted Lupy's excellent essay on Andrew Jackson. It's fascinating how presidential reputations shift over the decades and centuries.

http://blog.richmond.edu/heroes/2013/09 ... r-opinion/

[RJDiogenes]

^^ Sweet. I will take a look.

I guess there was a reason I was having trouble trusting the guy who offered to design my blogsite. As soon as I get home from my car's 30,000 mile maintenance, I'll be calling the hosting site's customer service and requesting help, which is what I meant to do last month when he stepped up and told me that before he took the job at the women's business center he was a professional web designer, and would help me set up, no charge. Apparently he wasn't up to the challenge, though, but thought he was getting an opportunity to get a free copy of my whatever the hosting site's instructions are called. Whatever.

Oh, boy, I'm sorry to hear that.

Probably I should learn the lingo, so I know how to ask questions that get me the kind of answers I need. I have a handle on "domain name" and am vaguely aware that I chose a hosting site, but after that, yikes! Content is piling up, and I need to find out how to post it, which probably requires formatting, but it's about time I learned how to that, right?

I have minimal experience in web publishing, but I know the basics. You need a web publishing program, like FrontPage (but I think one of those free Adobe programs that Orpheus told us about is a web publisher-- I'll check), which you use to design the pages. It works basically like a word processor, where you set up the text and graphics and links on-screen with a WYSIWYG editor (it should also give you the option of working directly with the HTML, but that's more complicated). Then you click the publish button (after entering the specific address supplied by your host, along with your password) and your stuff is sent to your website). Once you've got it set up, it should just be a question of setting up the page and clicking Publish, almost like posting at Tumblr.