Click on “link to this photo” and copy the “html to embed in website”

Switch to the “code”view by clicking on the code tab at the top of the edit window, then paste the code :

To insert a slideshow look on the left side there is a link called “embed slideshow” - switch to code view again and paste the code they give you. See example result here

Here is an outline of what you need to do today:

Set up an account and a blog on this site. To do this, first go to:

http://blogs.bftf.org/wp-signup.php

1. Enter the username you wish to use and a valid email address.
2. Choose gimme a blog!
3. Click next
4. Choose your blog domain. It should not have special characters and you can’t change it later so pick carefully.
5. Choose your blog title. It can be changed later if you wish.
6. Click “signup”
7. Check your email. You’ll see a mail from “ben Franklin Institute”. Click the link.
8. There is your password. Write it down somewhere.
9. Click “login”
10. Type in your username and password.
11. This is called the “dashboard” which is the administration panel for your blog. This is where you write posts, change settings, etc.

Let’s see how your site looks for now, by clicking “view site”

You can edit your first post by clicking edit.

The sidebar components can all be changed.

Managing your blog;

1. Write tab: posts vs. pages:
2. the blog will show a certain number of posts on the front page. Pages are static places where you would put, for example, your “about” information.
3. Post status: by default a post will be a draft. Click publish to make available to the world.
4. Manage tab: view previous posts and existing pages.
5. Comments tab: view comments and delete spam.
6. Blogroll tab: the blogroll is a collection of links to places you find interesting- blogs of your friends for example. They will show on the sidebar.
7. Presentation tab:
   1.  Choose a theme - appearance of your blog. See http://themes.wordpress.net if you don’t find a theme that you like in the list, and email me the address so I can download and install it.
   2. Widgets - the items on your sidebar. You can change the order, add and remove items here.
   3. Header image - in most themes you can upload your own image for the header.
8. Plugins :
   1. You might be interested in Tiny MCE advanced (more options for editing)
   2. You MUST turn on the askimet spam protection plug in.
   3. Here is a key you can use: 875a7768299f
9. Options tab: Choose the title of your blog and other things like that.
10. My profile: use it to change your password

If you type a password there and save, the visitors to your blog will see a prompt to enter a password in order to view your post or your page.

If you want to remove the protection, just edit the page and remove the password from the “Post Password” box.

Keep in mind that this is light protection, not the safest there is.

This post is password protected. To view it please enter your password below:

Password:

Insert / edit / format picture. Click on this icon to set size, alignment, white space around the picture.

Insert media - this can be a YouTube video, a MP3 file, anything as long as you have an internet address for it.

Create/edit a hyperlink (left) Remove a hyperlink (right). Select text before using - will apply to the selected text. If a link is already present, clicking on the edit a hyperlink icon will show its properties and allow to edit them.

Text editing options. Same as in most word processing applications.

[more to come soon]

• Post images in your Wordpress Photo Gallery
• Upload images for your post
• Embed images from online photo sites such as Photobucket or Picasa

Posting images in your Wordpress Photo Gallery (more…)

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• Only MP3 audio format has been tested so far.
• The online flash-based player requires MP3s to be encoded either at 11khz, 22khz or 44khz.
  Otherwise they will play at twice the speed. Entertaining, but not very useful.

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According to the statistics of visitors to this website, about 97% use the browsers mentioned above (except IE 5.5), another 2% Netscape (usually compatible with FF), and the remaining 1% Opera, Safari, IE 5.5 and others.

Known bugs, quirks, differences between browsers:

• Mozilla/Firefox do not allow pasting into a browser window. To paste formatted text use the “paste from word” icon in the toolbar.
• Opera has limitations
  • Editing may result in incorrect wrapping of posts, somehow running off the page.
  • There are no “resize” small squares around a picture to allow for resizing
  • There is no drag and drop in the “visual” window.
• Videos currently may not work in Safari (may be a mac issue rather than a browser issue)

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