1. Advanced Blogging- for those of you who want to do more than just type messages…

2. Purpose and Objectives  Using HTML code (text widget)  Creating a link with a picture  Using Widgets  Making a "Home Page"  Adding a PowerPoint (or other file i.e. PDF)  Embedding an audio message

3. Setting a home page… the first thing you have to do in order to make a “home-page” is to make a page…

4. Creating links… A link is something a person will click to take them to another location – usually outside of your blog – you can link from a picture, phrase, or whatever else you can create in a page or post…

5. Setting a home page… Next, go to the settings menu, readings submenu, and select the static homepage… Whatever page you select will be your homepage – I like mine un-named so that when I list the pages in my left/right columns, it doesn’t show up…

6. Embedding… When you embed something in a post/page, you actually write in html code (or more often you copy it) telling the post/page that you want the material stuck in the post/page you’re working with – the advantage to this is that people never have to leave your blog… Embedding works with: videos from webertube/youtube/TV networks/etc. documents & files from webertube anything you can find an embed code for If you want to embed actual webpages into your blog, you have to use what’s called an “iFrame”

7. Find something you want to embed… Webertube Youtube Most tv networks Record your own on a doc camera/webcam – this will need to be transferred to webertube first! Record your desktop using something like Camstudio – again, anything you make will need to be saved to webertube first! For now, go out to one of these and find something that has an embed code…

10. Embedding docs/pdfs/powerpoints is just the same Look at my blog to see what this looks like…

11. iFrame… An iframe is like a hyperlink to an offsite place that remains in your blog - to do this, you need a bit of html code….

14. Widgets… A widget is a “web-gadget”, and there are literally tens of thousands of them – to get a new one that is not listed, ask Justin Reeves… If you want to use widgets, make sure your theme is widget-ready!