POSTING AN ARTICLE TO THE MINI-WEBSITES

These sections require sign-in and password information different from PWadmin. Make sure your parish Web Editor or Admin has authorized you to make changes on the sections in Blogger before you proceed. Ask them top give you a user name and password for this section.

Posting articles in a blog is really quite easy. No programming is required. It's done in a different screen from your website pages but it's also a simple cut and paste operation.

You need a Blogger Account sign-in to do this. If you do not yet have one, click here to set up a Blogger account.

Instructions for editing these sections.

1. Go to www.blogger.com
2. Sign in by entering your sign in information on the upper right hand corner. Sign in requires your email address and password that you registered when you set up the Blogger Account.
3. Your list of blogs should display. Pick the blog you wish to edit and click POSTS. A new page will open with a list of articles for this blog.
4. On the upper left hand of the newly opened page, click the blue box labeled NEW POST. Your edit screen will open.
5. In the box labeled HEADLINE, please type or paste the title of your article or post.
6. In the large box at the bottom, please type or paste your article.

TEXT EDITING FEATURES

7. You can freely edit the text in this box and make it appear as you like. You can italicize text, bold face, even change colors and character size.
7. To italicize part of the text, highlight the text then click the italicize icon (i) on the tool bar.
8. To bold face any text, highlight the text and click the bold face icon (b) on the tool bar.
9. To change fonts, highlight the text and click the pull down arrow in the font box on the tool bar. Then choose the font you like.
10. To change the size of the text, highlight the text and click the pull down arrow next to the (TT) icon on the tool bar. You can now choose from smallest to largest.
11. To change the color of the text, highlight the text and click the (T-) icon with colored cubes located on the tool bar. A color palette will open and you can now choose one.
12. Feel free to play with the page alignment icons, spell check icons and the bullet formatting icons. They are simple to use and very intuitive.

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It is important to maintain a consistent style throughout the entire parish website - from PWADMIN to Blogger. So we suggest you maintain the following style for Blogger articles:

HEADLINE
Font: Verdana
Size is Large

AUTHOR/CREDITS
Font: Default (Times New Roman), Italics
Size: Smallest

BODY OF ARTICLE:
Do not change. Use the default Settings
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CREATING LINKS

13. To create a link, highlight the text that will be used as the link text, then click the green globe icon on the tool bar. When the link window displays, paste your target url (web address) into the window. Then click OK.

INSERTING PHOTOS

14. To add a photo to your article, place your cursor at the location where you wish to insert a photo. Then click the blue picture icon to the right of the spell check icon on the tool bar.
15. Click BROWSE and look for your photo on your computer. Click your desired photo and click OPEN.
16. Choose a layout: NONE, LEFT, CENTER OR RIGHT.
17. Choose an image size: SMALL, MEDIUM OR LARGE.
18. Click UPLOAD IMAGE and wait. When completed, click DONE. Your image will now display in the article.
19. When done, click PUBLISH POST at the bottom of the page.

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USEFUL NAVIGATION BACK LINKS:
Chapter 0 - WELCOME TO YOUR USER MANUAL
Chapter I - GETTING STARTED
Chapter II -THE GOALS OF YOUR WEBSITE
Chapter III - CREATING YOUR ARTICLES
Chapter IV - MANAGING YOUR WEBSITE
Chapter V - GENERATING REVENUES
COMPLETE TABLE OF CONTENTS