How to setup a blog (Basic start up directions)

Blogs/Wikis and other unknowns

1. Sign up for Gmail (Blogger/Voki/feedburner based on gmail)
and Yahoo (Flickr) accounts
www.Flickr.com
Choose a name for your blog
You can have several blogs with one gmail account
2. Create blog on www.blogger.com (based upon a gmail account)
http:www.Blogger.com

Business:
http://brushcolor.blogspot.com/
http://tristatereviews.blogspot.com/

Groups or user groups:
http://macspacs.blogspot.com/
http://macbusphilly.blogspot.com/
http://abcbookworks.blogspot.com/

Personal:
http://bookpushintechie.blogspot.com/

MainLine Multimedia sig:
http://virtualmontage.blogspot.com/

3. Go into customize and choose a template.
4. Add graphic in Blog header (include information about blog)
Size: 144 pixels x 720 pixels
5. Add new page elements to your blog (such as links to other websites)
see example on virtual montage blog
This is the place where you can link to other sites you are interested in or what others to know about.
6. Access gmail account in a different tab and go to get a VOKI www.voki.com
Copy/past code into the box supplied under new page element.
(first choose edit for the author box in upper right)
Check out your new addition to the blog.
7. Next create a new post (You must be signed into your gmail account)
Go to new post (top right corner of screen) or
Go to settings under customize
It is also possible to edit posts once they are published.
8. Add Snapshots to make links have a preview (http://www.snap.com/about/shots.php )
9. Establish an RSS feed for your site. www.feedburner.com (free) link to your site(s)

Amazetype

Amaztype. http://amaztype.tha.jp/


This program is tied into Amazon/books/titles.
When you type in a name or word, the program goes out to find book titles with that name or word in it. You will have many hours of play ahead of you when you start this site.

RSS feeds with feedburner

Feedburner.com www.feedburner.com

Do you need a way to publisize your blog or just make it easy for friends to get updates. Set up an rss feed for ease.
Your Feed

Feedburner provides an unstyled view of your feed, complete with any visible modifications introduced by FeedBurner services. (It doesn't include any Browser-Friendly styling because that only works with certain browsers; click your feed address above to try it out.)

Snapshots information

Snapshots http://www.snap.com/snapshots.php

Snapshots enables your viewers to see what the links contain. In a popup window you will see a mini preview of the url.

Add a Snap Shots Badge
By adding a Snap Shots Badge to your site, you let anyone visiting know that there is nothing ordinary about your site.

Welcome

We want to welcome you to our new blog.
Please check back regularly.

Video Delays

OK, that last post was a 265k QT 8 image slide show. The First frame is visible, but if clicked, a message says it's not available yet. Come ON, 265k? thats half the size of the Still Image I posted which was instantly available. Maybe it has to be cleared by the web police? Wonder how long THAT will take? I'll wait. Where's that Tequilla bottle?

Quiz

A short Road Sign Quiz using Quicktime. Right arrow to advance to the next question. Ignore the "Submit" button, it does nothing on this movie. Also Right Click (Control Click for you one button mousketeers) and you can DL the stuff to bore your friends.

Opener

Hopefully we will now have a place to post Images and Directions and whatever else we need to feed the Multimedia SIG