Posting and other Blogger Bits of Info

Blogger is pretty easy to use. You will see once you start posting that it functions much like Microsoft Word. Some hints and tips to get you going.

1) No post is ever final, you can always go back and change it.
2) You can play with font colors and sizes, as well as bold and italic.
3) Pictures are fairly easy to insert, though you will have to manipulate them sometimes once you have inserted them. You just have to drag the photo to where you want it and then pull the text up around the image using backspace.

I use Picasa from Google to host my images, but you don't have to do that. Picasa just makes it so that the images don't slow down the web page when it is loading. You can always just link directly to an image on your computer as well.

In blogging, its usually preferred that you cite the source you borrowed an image from (if its not your image). Because you are taking from their web site's bandwidth (how much space they have to host their site online), its a friendly blog world shout-out to the owner of the image.

4) Linking is also super easy, just highlight the words you want to link and then you can add the link using the link tool bar. You can also link to a web site from an image, just follow the same process. I try to test my links after I post.

Let me know what other Qs you have. Jennifer and Camby are both blogger-proficient, so jump in if you want.

Hungry for a Cooking Blog?

Hi Ladies--here's our new food blog! A few notes on how it works.

1) You can post on anything food, cooking, recipe, drink, etc related. Whatever you want.
2) When you do post something, make sure to note what its related to in the labels (when you are creating a post). That way you can search by related posts
3) Comment away on each others posts (if you want). Commenting makes the world go round in the blog world.
4) Please do a bio post so we know who each other is. I'll add our bios to the on the side of the blog.

Let me know if you have thoughts, suggestions, layout ideas, whatever. Should be fun!