martes, 6 de noviembre de 2012

Assessment 6th November: Blog Summary

In this assessment we have to write a summary about; how to edit blogs, how to use dropbox with blogger and how to post images, videos, links...etc.

How to edit blogs:

Editing blogs is a very simple thing. First of all you have to go to your Dashboard and select the blog you want to edit. Then when you are in the dashboard of the selected blog, look at your left hand side to find a tool bar like the one below. 




After you see the tool bar you click on the Template option, and it open up into a window like this:


Start with a base template and customize your background, layout, colors, fonts and more...

Dynamic Views

Now you click on the one you prefer and your blog will be the same but with a different template. If you are happy with your template, you can always click on customize and go to your blog  to edit it from there:

Live on Blog
 
Mobile

Now you can see this window:

Templates
Background
Adjust widths
Layout
Advanced
Live on Blog
Based on Simple
Dynamic Views
Simple
Picture Window
Awesome Inc.
Watermark
Ethereal
Travel
And your blog right below. Well now you just start playing around and changing things, and that's how you edit a blog.


How to use Dropbox:
 Using Dropbox to upload music to the blog for example, is very useful and simple. First of all you must have a Dropbox account, but you don't have to became Premium to do this, so that's also a very good thing. Okay so the first thing you see when you enter your Dropbox are this folders:


Now you have to click on the public folder. And yoo click on the little document with an arrow to upload an audio for example. This is how my Dropbox public folder looks like:


Now you click on one of your choice, and copy the link


And your followers will see this page when they click on the link:


And that's how you add audio from your Dropbox. To add images you follow the same simple steps.


Posting Images, Links and Videos:

The first you must do is to go to the little picture of the image in the tool bar. 
Then you must click on it and select the way to want to upload the picture.
You can upload it via phone, via URL, via webcam via Picassa or via computer.

When you select any of this options it will tell you what you must do. 

Phone: You have to have Google+ in your phone in order to upload the image.
URL: You just get the URL of the photo you want to upload and paste it on the little box.
Webcam: For this option you must have a webcam installed in your computer, then you take a picture and   uploaded.
Picassa: You select the album in where the photo is saved, you click on it and then you upload it.
Computer: You go to Search File and then you just select the photo from your computer  you click on open and the you just say upload.

Those are the 5 ways to upload photos to your bogs.

Adding links is very simple and quick.