1. Skills: create, modify and post to a blog Concepts: wire-frame diagram, independence of content and appearance, gadget or widget, Blogger menu structure This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. Create a blog

2. Where does this topic fit? Internet concepts – Applications – Technology – Implications Internet skills – Application development – Content creation – User skills

3. Create a new blog 1 3 2

4. My Blogger “dashboard”

5. Simple word processor

6. Compose and publish the post

7. http://firstblogdemo.blogspot.com/

8. The blog layout

9. A wire frame diagram

10. List of posts on this blog

11. Edit, view or delete a post

12. Blog settings

13. Blog template

14. Layout

15. The blog layout

19. Layout

20. Property sheet

22. Editing shortcuts

23. Summary

24. Self-study questions 1.What is the URL (Web address) of a blog once you have created it – where do readers go to see it? 2.If your readers complain of reading difficulty, how would you increase the font size in your Blogger posts? 3.How would you change your blog from a two column to a three column layout? 4.Does changing the appearance of a blog change its content? 5.What are dynamic views in Blogger blogs?

25. Resources Blogger support: http://www.google.com/support/blogger/