Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Blog Users Guide

The following is a guide to viewing and contributing to the "Women of Temple Sinai" blog.

1. Viewing the Blog
To view the blog, point your browser to: tswomen.blogspot.com

2. Signing In to the blog
If you sign in to the blog you can make a new post, edit any post you have already made, make comments or sign up to follow the blog.
In order to sign in you need an account with Google, Yahoo, AIM, Netlog or OpenID. See item (7) on how to get an account.
To sign in when viewing the "Women of Temple Sinai" blog, click on "Sign In" in the upper right hand corner.
The page will change to one that shows all the entries for all of the blogspot blogs you are following.
From that page you can Add, Edit, Comment etc...

3. Add a new post (Sign in required)
If you are signed in there will be "New Post" button in the upper right hand as well. Click on that or from the Dashboard page click on "New Post".
A new window comes up in which you can type, or click on button to upload pictures and videos.
You can Save a draft or click "Post" to add the new post to the blog.

4. Edit an existing post
At the bottom of each post you have made is a little pencil icon. Click on this go to an edit screen to make changes, upload more etc...

5. Adding a comment (Sign in required)
At then of each post is an indication of the number of comments, such as "0 comments".
You can click on that indicator to add a comment. You can also click on the title of the blog to add a comment.
After each post you can subscribe to comments for that particular post to get an email of any comments.

6. Following the blog (Sign in required)
By design, if you follow the blog, you can get emails when there are post. I am still trying to figure out how this works.

7. Getting an account
If you have no account with any of these it is easy to get one. On the bottom of the sign in pop-up page is a link that says: "Create a new Google account". That will take you to a page where you choose a user name and a password. You have to reply to one of those annoying CAPTCHA s (typng n the contents of some barely readable text). That is there so robotic software cannot overwhelm Google with bogus requests.You only have to crate an account once.

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