Saturday, 10 January 2015

Exploring Blogger

Although yesterday I added some comments about week 1, I still don't feel comfortable about using Blogger.

Let's examine the toolbar.

First steps - Heading

First steps - Subheading

First steps - Minor heading

First steps - Normal

Very similar to Word. I don't think I will have problems with it.

 Let's see how to add a photo.

Done. This building is the Hungarian Parliament in Budapest. I come from this beautiful city.

I inserted a jump break. What is it for? Let me see. If everything is OK, "Read more" will appear here.



I'd like to be able to use a spell checker because it is quite annoying that everything is underlined red in the editing mode.  Firefox offered me to download the English language pack. Done. And I can see
that "copy and paste" works OK.
school shool
Everything is underlined red. I clicked on the ABC icon and the word containing the spelling mistake became yellow. Does that mean that I can use the spell-checker? If so, why is everything still underlined red? No idea.

Let's try it again. Ctrl+A then Check spelling icon. Still everything is underlined and there are 5 yellow words: customizing, blog, Firefox, shool and Ctrl. OK. But still I can see the red line. Why?

Why don't I consult the help menu? Yes, I like exploring things myself. :-)

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6 comments:

  1. Linda from Hungary10 January 2015 at 02:16

    As I can see I still can't use "Jump break". I consulted the Help page and followed the instructions but without any positive results. :-(

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    1. Linda from Hungary10 January 2015 at 02:29

      It works!!!! I wasn't patient enough. It needed time. (Perhaps)

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  2. Linda from Hungary10 January 2015 at 02:22

    I still can't see how posts and pages are related. What is a "Page" good for?

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  3. Unknown10 January 2015 at 23:06

    in blogs, pages are usually "static" while the blog posts are "dynamic." Dynamic blog's old posts will go to the bottom and then disappear from the main page when new posts come and push them out. Pages can contain information that won't be outdated (such as About Me page)

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    1. Linda from Hungary11 January 2015 at 08:53

      So what shall I write then every week, posts or pages? I think posts but I am still not totally clear.
      What are the course expectations?

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  4. Robert Elliott11 January 2015 at 23:02

    Hi Linda: You'll want to add "posts" every week, though if you used pages it would be okay too, just harder to find the new ones.

    I like that you are using this blog as a "sandbox", a place to play around, test things out and learn. I sometimes say this is like taking a car for a test drive before you buy it. I think this is the funnest part about learning a new tool, the discovery stage, seeing what it can do.

    I hope you have fun with it! -Robert

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