Posting

Clicking on the **Posting** tab will bring you to the following page, where you can create a new post:
 * Posting **



After entering a title for your post, you can begin typing away. Several of the buttons above the posting window should be familiar from Word; from left to right, you can change the font (though the selection is limited), the size of the text, make something bold or italic, change the color, insert a hyperlink (more information below), change the justification (left, center, right, or full), add a list or bullet points, make something a block quote (indented from the rest of the text), spell check, add an image, add a video, and clear formatting. At the right, you’ll see a link to preview how what you’ve written so far will look when it is published.


 * Hyperlinks**: When you type in a web address in a blog post, it will NOT automatically create a link to that address. Instead, you need to highlight a selection of text and click the hyperlink button, [[image:hyperlink_image.jpg]]. This will bring up a box in which you can enter the web address of the site you want to link to. The advantage of hyperlinks is that you do not need to actually enter the link in the text of your post – you can simply highlight a word or phrase and make it into a hyperlink. Here’s an [|example].

At the bottom of the text box on the left you can click **Post Options** to set whether you want comments enabled or disabled for that post. There is also a place to enter **labels** for the post; these will enable a reader to navigate through the blog by specific topics rather than simply by the order in which entries are posted. They may also make the blog easier to find in general through search engines. For example, one gadget that you can add lists all the labels that you have put on your posts and the number of posts with that label. By clicking on the label, a reader could see all posts with that label. Usually, the labels are also displayed at the bottom of each post (though this can be changed in Settings).

Posts automatically save every few minutes, but you can also save them yourself by clicking on **Save Now**. When you have finished a post, click **Publish Post** to put it up on the blog for all to see (don’t worry, you can still go back to edit it later if you find mistakes or want to add updates).

There are two other tabs under posting, **Edit Posts** and **Comment Moderation**.** Edit Posts** will bring up a list of all your posts. Clicking on the blue **Edit** button next to a post will bring up that post for you to edit; clicking the **View** button (only available for published posts) will bring up that post as it appears on the blog. If there are comments on a post, there will be a link directly to those comments. Clicking on the little triangle to the left of each post’s title will show the text of the post. If for some reason you wish to permanently delete either a finished post or a draft, you can click the **Delete** button to the far right of the post. Blogger will ask you to confirm that you want to delete a post before deleting it.


 * Comment Moderation**: If you have enabled Comment Moderation under Settings, you can choose to accept or reject any new comments at this page.

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