How to use this blog

Posting Basics

Posting via a web browser

Login in at www.blogger.com. Click the UD New Zealand 2014 blog. Click the pencil icon beneath an existing post to edit, add text to the box beneath a post to comment, or click New Post from the menu in the upper right-hand side of the frame. Adding Labels to your posts will allow viewers to filter your blog information.

Posting via email

The Mail-to-Blogger feature turns any email account into a blog-posting application. Email posts from computers or non-US registered mobile devices can email messages with attached photos or videos directly to: [your blogger name].nz14@blogger.com. 
When offline, consider writing emails and saving drafts for posting when internet is available.

Posting via mobile device

To register a mobile device: Go to your blogger.com home page.  Under the UD New Zealand 2014 blog, click "settings".  Then, click "add mobile device."  From there, follow the instructions on screen.
Watch the following video for step-by-step directions.

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Post YouTube Videos

To embed a video from YouTube, select the "Insert a video icon" from the post's toolbar. Search for a video by topic, or copy and paste the video's url into the search box. Click the search icon and click on the video image to select the item to insert in your blog.

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Image Basics

UD students in Brazil

Consider compressing images before uploading. Mac owners can use iPhoto. Win users can use Microsoft Office Tools' Picture Manager to format individual photos. Batches can be converted to smaller file sizes using: http://www.xentrik.net/software/photo_resizer.html.

Experiment with how text wraps around images. Images will align with the top of an individual paragraph. Image size of Small/Medium/Large/X-Large can be chosen after insertion. You can drag images to new post locations. Blogger's built tool requires images to be selected individually. See the Picasa reference below to learn how to share albums of photos.

What other ways to post pictures are available?

Aside from the image uploading tool built into Blogger's post editor, there are several other options to help you get pictures on your blog. Here's the list:

1. If you have a camera phone or a similar mobile device, you can use Blogger Mobile (see Posting Basics in this blog) to send photos to your blog. The attached images will be uploaded to the web and included in your post.
2. Windows users can download Google's free photo software, Picasa, and use the "BlogThis!" button to post pictures directly to their blogs. One advantage in using this method is that any edits you make in Picasa, like removing red-eye or lighting enhancements, are uploaded along with your photo. Captions written in Picasa are not transferred in this release, so you will need to add these in the Blogger post editor.
3. There are a number of third-party services that will let you post pictures to your blog, including , BuzzNet, FotoFlix, Photobucket, and Photolightning.

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Access to Public Google Tools vs. GoogleApps@UD Tools 

The path to sign-in to public accounts can seem tricky when you also have a GoogleApps (udel) account. Use one of the following options to consistently avoid improper routing to the GoogleApps@UD sign-on page when trying to access the Blogger tool:

• use a different browser (Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari, etc.) when accessing your public gmail items or, 
• completely sign-out of your udel account [see picture below] before attempting to access your public gmail

Note: People who flip between udel and public gmail throughout the day find the convenience of the "Add account" option [see picture below] to switch between profiles outweighs the occasional routing glitch.