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Before you begin, please read about the program HERE.

Three ways to find information in our blog-

  • You can use the looking glass on the top right of the home page to search the blog.
  • You can go to a selected post by using the link below.
  • You can use the labels in the blog. There can be accessed from the drop down menu if you see it on the left hand side of the screen or, otherwise, by selecting the three lines at the top left of the screen.

Here are the links to the six blogs that support the content of our program-

  1. Creating your blog includes your activity to create a blog
  2. Adding pages to your blog includes your activity to publish a page
  3. Adding posts to your blog includes your activity to publish a post
  4. Composing your pages and posts
  5. Adding images and videos to your pages and posts
  6. Comments, Contacts, Sharing and Following
  7. Changing the look of your blog
  8. Reviewing the current Layout of our blog
  9. Setting Permissions - who can author or read your blog




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2: Adding pages to your blog

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What is a page? Pages are the static content of your blog that rarely need updating. Pages can be shown as tabs at the top of your blog or as links on the side. There's no limit to the number of pages that you can have in one blog. However, we suggest that you limit pages shown as tabs at the top of your blog to three or four. There's no limit to the number of pages that can be linked on the side of your blog. Pages are good for: introducing yourself or the purpose of your blog, a snapshot of your family history research including a pedigree chart and conditions for using the information in your blog. Creating pages Sign in to  Blogger On the left-hand side, select a blog From the menu on the left, click Pages In the top left, click  New Pages  Enter a page title and content - see 4: Composing your page or post In the top right, click Preview page, Save  or Publish - Once a page is published, it can't be saved but only republished by selecting  Publis...
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8: Reviewing the current Layout of our blog

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In  1: Creating your blog , we covered the various areas of Contempo's Layout . In this post, we'll show how we've used the Layout and gadgets in our blog- Sidebar (Top) - not used Sidebar (Bottom) - used for- Contact Form gadget Pages gadget Blog archive gadget and Labels gadget Search (Top) - used Header - used Page List (Top) - used for Pages gadget Ads - not used Page Body - used for- Featured Post gadget Blog Post gadget and Popular Posts gadget Footer - used for Attributions gadget Sidebar (Bottom) Here you can see the gadgets we've used and how they have been configured for the contact form, page list, archive and labels. Search (Top) Page List (Top) Page Body Here you can see how we've configured the page body to show the featured post and popular posts. Attributions Here you can see how we've included a copyright.
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