Writing blog entries
This is a short guide about how to write blog entries.
The number of views this blog is getting is in excess of four hundred a day so you’re all getting quite a following. Letting us know how you’re getting on really brings it alive for the rest of us so hence the guide.
Creating a user account
The first thing you want to do is create an account, do this before you go to Thailand. Go to http://www.wordpress.com and click the ‘Sign Up Now’ button. Enter your username, password and email address and then mail Iain Colledge with your email so he can add you as an author.
Logging on and getting to the blog
When you want to log on go to http://www.wordpress.com again and sign in using your username and password. You’ll see under the welcome back message a list of blogs under ‘Your blogs’. You will have needed to let me know before hand so I can add you as an author to the blog first though. Clicking ‘View Site’ takes you to the published blog and to go back you can click ‘My Dashboard’.
Writing a blog entry
When you click ‘Write’ or ‘New Post’ when viewing the site you’ll be taken to the blog posting page. This page works like a simple word processor and the easiest way to get the hang of things is to try out the buttons. The blog isn’t published until you click the ‘Publish’ button so play around and work out what to do. The best way to learn is to mess around and then delete it again under ‘Manage’ and ‘Posts’.
Remember to click on the week you’re out there under categories, this allows people to see all the blogs for a given week regardless when tey were written.
Images
Images can be uploaded or you can use ones already loaded to add some nice pictures to your entry. The size used for non thumbnail images is 400 pixels accross, so use your camera software or some other program to scale them down before uploading, if this will be used for a thumnail then you can scale it 800 across if you want to. As a worst case I’ll scale them for you afterwards if you can’t do it.
To upload, click on ‘Upload’ and browse your hard disk for the image, put in a title and a description and then click the ‘Upload >>’ button. You can see your uploaded images by clicking ‘Browse’ or ‘Browse All’ for all images. Click on one you like and then click in your blog entry to put it where you want. If it is a main banner image then use ‘Full Size’ else select ‘Thumnail’ and then ‘Send to editor’.
Publishing your blog
When you’re happy with your blog entry, click ‘Publish’. Your blog is now on the main page and people can see it.
That’s really all there is too it, so get going and have fun.
suttonca said,
November 11, 2007 @ 12:01 pm
I think your all doing a fantastic job out there and I wish I could be there sharing all these experiences.Ben Sutton from Amberley Court in Birmingham has just joined you.Ben is not only a fantastic maintenance man hes also my son and I would like to wish him and all his co workers the very best of love and luck over the next 8 days.Havea great time, try not to get too attatched to all those lovely children, but I know you will, and keep away from the tarantula’s!!!!!
happy painting!!
Carol Sutton
Home manager
Susan Palmer said,
November 23, 2007 @ 4:06 pm
Hi Catriona
Hope you’ve arrived safely.
Just to let you know, your box of goodies is being uplifted, should be with you Wed/Thurs next week. Martin managed to kick butt, and DHL are doing it for nothing since its a for charity mate.
Have a fab time.
S&Jx
To shaun the Ware Bear said,
December 3, 2007 @ 9:32 am
Shaun,
Hope you got there safely, just some information on the Rovers for you, we won 5-1 on the weekend, Lambert (2), Disley, Hinton and Williams. Now away to Fulham in the next round.
Adg
Theresa Gray said,
December 3, 2007 @ 2:25 pm
Hi Matty
Hope the flight etc was ok missing you already!!
Give all the children big hugs from us all
Luv from T xxx
Melanie Sellers said,
December 4, 2007 @ 8:46 am
R u alive matt? or still in the airport?
suejj said,
December 4, 2007 @ 2:06 pm
Hi everyone
Just got back to the hotel after a day of decorating the girls dormitory. Their little faces when they came home from school and saw all the new bedding and decor was worth every brush stroke!!
I am with a great group of people - we all work well together and the children are wonderful - I have to mention Ice and O-Ay.
It is the King’s birthday tomorrow so we are going to the ceremony at Sarnelli House in the morning - no school for the children and no work for us1!! How lucky are we!!!!
Anyway - must go - bottle of beer is calling (or do I mean cooling?)
Love to all especially Georgie, Josh, Keith, Dad and Chris.
See you all in England!!