This is a work in progress (forgive the mess)
How do I create a blog?
Go to blogsz.info and click on the Register
link. You will be taken through a four step registration process. Upon
registration you will receive an e-mail notification that has a link for you to
click on to activate your account. Once your account is activated, if you
desire, you can change your blog template by going to Admin Control Centre then
Blog Settings.
I can't find my blog anywhere
Once
you register you will receive an e-mail notification that has a link for you to
click on to activate your account. If you entered a bad or wrong e-mail address,
you will not be able to activate your blog site. You will need to contact the webmaster.
What is my blog web address?
Your
blog web address (URL) is going to be in the following
format:
http://blogname.blogsz.info/
Replace username with your
username (not your blog name). Make sure you have the / at the end of blog
Is there a spell checker?
No, there
is not a built in spell checker, but here is an excellent, easy to use, easy to
install program that works great: http://www.iespell.com/. Once it is installed, whenever your mouse is
inserted in a form field, right click, and you can spell check.
Where is the page that show all the blog sites
and postings of other blogs?
This is called the Summary Page. it is
located at: http://blogsz.info. If you go to this page on a regular basis, we
recommend putting a link to it on your blog homepage.
Getting Started
Here are the steps
you should take when you first activate a blog. There are instructions below and
in our Knowledge Base/FAQ Section on how to implement each step.
1.
Delete the Congratulations post. But before you do this, create new categories
and then a new post, otherwise there will be an error message on your blog. Or,
just edit the existign Congratulations post.
2. Create New Categories. Change the name of the
'General' category if you want it to be a different name.
3. If there is an About Me link on your blog, enter
info about yourself in the 'Bio' section of User Settings under the Control
Centre section of the Admin Control Panel.
4. Create a Photo Album in Resource Section and add
a photo of yourself if you are using a template that inserts a photo of yourself
on the blog header.
5. Add links to your blog homepage.
6. Activate the various Plug-ins that we offer.
6. If you would like a customized template, have a
personal homepage, have a unique domain to forward to your blog, or any other
design work, contact us for a
quote. Our pricing is very affordable.
ADMINISTRATION CONTROL PANEL
INFORMATION
The Administration Control Panel is where you post
messages and have full control of your blog.
How do I get to the Admin panel and Control
Centre?
There are two ways to access the Control Panel:
a. If you
are at the www.blogsz.info Summary page, there is a log-in screen on
the left column.
b. If you are at your personal blog, click the Admin link on
your blog site and log-in.
Log in by entering your username and password. Once logged in, you are in the Dashboard. Click your
blog name and you will have full access to the Admin Control Panel. You will
immediately be taken to the 'New Post' page.
| MANAGE TAB
How to Manage Posts
New Post Tab
When you click
on this link, it may take a few seconds for the page to
load completely, do not try to post a message until the page
loads completely.
Topic title is the title for your
posts. Your title should not be longer than 20 characters.
Skip the submitted by and submitter e-mail if
it appears on your screen. This is only applicable if you are using
the submission plug-in.
Enter your post in the Text section. There
are a variety of text editing tools available.
If your post
is going to be more than a couple of paragraphs, we suggest
that you enter the additional data in the Extended Text
section.
Slug feature-This gives you the ability to
make the post URL unique and shorter if desired.
Date-If you want to create a post and have it
post at a later date, you can use this feature.
Status-Choose what status you want for the
post.
Categories-Choose what category you want your
post to appear in.
Enable comments-Check if you want
to allow others to comment on your post
Notification of new comments-Check this
if you want to be notified when a comment is made to your
posts.
Send trackbacks-This feature is used if you
enter a trackback in your post and you want the blog that has the
trackback to be notified that you used their trackback, then you
check this.
A trackback is the link to a post from
another blog. So if you read another person's post and make a
comment about their post, then you can add the link (trackback) for
viewers of your post to read the entire post from another
blog.
A trackback can also be called a
permalink.
Send XMLRPC pings-if you check this, our
feed generator will ping various rss feed services so that your post
can be read by others.
RSS feed services are servers that gather rss feeds
from blogs, news services, etc. This is helpful for people who are
using rss feed readers. Feed readers is software that will let you
know every time a post is made on a blog, news site, etc.
By using the XMLRPC feature for your post, if you
have people that have subscribed to your blog they can be notified
every time you post.
Your last step is to decide if you want
to:
Save Draft (Save this post to work on
later
Preview (See how your post will look)
Blot
This-Make your post live.
Posts Tab
By clicking this link you
can read, edit, delete, or review statistics for each
post.
CM-This lets you know how many comments have
been made on this post.
TB-Lets you know how many
trackbacks have been made on this post. Trackbacks are links to your
post from other blogs.
Click on the post title or edit  icon to edit an
existing post.
Click on the delete icon  to delete a post.
(Deleted posts will not appear in your blog, but they are not
immediately removed from your admin panel.
Click on the Statistics  icon to get
statistics on your post.
Categories Tab
Your article
categories will be listed on this page. You may edit
the
category name by clicking on the
edit icon . Delete a category by clicking on the
delete icon.
Show on Front Page-When you go into the edit
mode you can decide if you want posts in this category to show up on
the front page of blog.
New Category Tab
Your article category
name should not be more than 20 characters so it is only one
line long. After you create a Article Category, you can
edit it by going to Categories Tab.
Note: When a blog is first created it
automatically has a General Category. You can rename this category
to whatever you want by clicking on the edit icon for the 'General'
Category.
Submission
This is a plug-in feature which
allows individuals to 'Submit a story' to
your blog. (There is a link on your blog homepage.) The
submission goes into moderation mode for you to review before
it is posted. You must activate this plug in for it to work. The
submissions will be under the post category.
When there is a submission, you can click on it,
review it, and decide if you want the submitted by and
submitter e-mail shown, and decide if you want to post it on
your blog. |
How to Manage Links
New Link
Click this tab to
create a new link. Before you create a link you must create a New
Link Category if you do not have an existing link category.
Name-Enter the name you want for this link.
It should not be more than 20 characters.
Url-Enter the webpage address of the link. Be
sure to start it with http://
Description-Enter
a description for this link. It is only seen by you.
Feed-If the site you are linking to has an
RSS feed, enter it here.
Category-Choose a category for this
link.
Be sure to click Add when you are
done.
Links
You can edit or delete a
link
New Link Category
Your link category name
should not be more than 20 characters. After you create a Link
Category, you can then create a link by clicking on Links
Tab.
Link Categories
You can edit the name of a
category or delete it.
Note: You can decide how you want your link
categories organized by going into the Control
Centre. |
Manage Custom
Fields
This section normally only applies to
Plug-Ins. If you activate a Plug-In that would require data to be
inserted in a post, then there may be additional fields added
automatically. The Submissions plug-in is an
example.
New Custom Fields
If
there is another field you would like to add to your posts, you
would create it here.
Custom
Fields |
Manage Blog Security
There are some plug-ins that help to
eliminate spamming of your blog site. Blocked Hosts is one
type of plug-in. You can blog specifically IP's addresses from
posting and/or viewing your site.
Blocked Hosts
This
will list any IP addresses you have chosen to block.
Add Blocked Hosts
This is where you would
add IP addresses you want to block. This section is
self-explanatory. |
RESOURCE CENTRE-PHOTOS TAB
New Resource
Before you can add a New Resource you must create an
album.
File-Browse your hard drive to upload an
image from your computer. You need to edit this image before you
upload it.
Description-Enter a description, others will
see this description.
Album-Select which album you want this image
to appear in.
New Album
Name-This name
appears to others and should be very short.
Parent-If can decide if you want sub albums.
For example you could have an album titled Vacations and a sub album
titled Hawaii. The Vacations album would be the parent of Hawaii
album.
Description-This description appears only to
you.
Add-Be sure to click add when
done.
Resources
Show By-Choose if you
want albums shown by parent album or my sub albums.
Album Folder-Click on an album folder to see
what images are in the the folder. You can edit an album to add more
images or delete an album. You must delete all images before you can
delete an album.
Number of resources: This tells you how many
images you have.
Total size: The total file size of all
images.
Quota: How much total disk space you
are allowed.
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CONTROL CENTRE TAB
The
Control Centre is where you manage blog and user settings, access detailed
site statistics, and activate many plug-ins.
Settings
Blog Settings
Modify
blog name and other blog features. This is where you can
change the template you are using.
User Settings
To modify personal
information.
Plugin Centre
This will list any
plug-ins you have
installed.
Statistics
This will
provide statistics on your blog.
Moblog
This
is a plug-in to allow blogging using various
devices. |
Blog Users
New Blog
User
If you want to allow others to
access Control Panel to post blogs. This is a great feature if
you are running a blog community.
Blog
Users
List of blog
users. |
Blog Templates
Anti Spam Management
AuthImage
To help stop
auto spammers from posting comments to your site, you can
activate this plug-in. Before a comment can be posted to your
site, a code must be entered first. Every time someone goes to make a comment, a code
will appear and an empty field. The commenter must enter the
code that appears into the empty field.
|
Integration Management
ManageSecurityPlugins
Host Block
You activate this
plug-in here, but it is managed in the 'Manage' section. Read
about it above in the 'Manage'
section. |
Appearance Management
| |
What are Plug-Ins?
Plug-Ins are
special features that can be used with your blog. They are not standard features
because some individuals may not want them on their site. To see a list of
plug-ins that are available, take the following steps:
1. Log into
Admin.
2. Click on your Blog Name while in Dashboard.
3. Go to Control
Centre.
4. Click on Plug-In Centre link.
5. There will be a description of
various plug-ins.
6. Most plug-ins are listed within Control Centre.
7.
Click on the link of a plug-in you want to activate.
How do I edit About Me page
If your
template has a page for your biography, here are the steps to edit that
page:
1. Log into Admin
2. Click on your Blog Name
3. Go to Control
Centre
4. Go to User Settings
5. Go to our Bio.
6. Enter your
information. If you know html, you can use basic html.
7. If you want
something more sophisticated, e-mail webmaster with what you want and he will
give you a quote for customized About Me page.
How do I add a resource or
photo?
You are able to add a variety of resources (photos, music,
video), but you only have 2 mb of space (with a free account), so we recommend
only using this feature for very specific photos (i.e. photo for your blog
template). We suggest using a free image host as much as possible.
You must first log into Admin Control Panel by
clicking Admin link on your blog site. You then click on your Blog Name, then
click on Resource Centre tab. You must first create a New Album, so click on the
New Album link. Once you have created an album you can then add photos to the
album, by clicking on New Resource link.
The first image you should add is your own image if
you want it to appear in some templates. The image
should be 99px in height or less.
What is the RSS link that is on my blog
page?
If you want others to be notified of all posts to your blog
site, then you can give them the URL of the RSS feed and they can enter it into
their feed reader. Just click on the RSS link that is on your site. This will
open a page with your feed URL. Copy the URL and send it to a friend.
What is the Trackback or Permalink link that
is under my post?
If somebody sends a trackback to your post,
it will show how many trackbacks the post has.