1.My Account- gives you the personal options with your account and profile, it allows the blogger to read comments other people have posted about their posts and it allow you to edit your profile and make changes to your account.My Dashboards- Gives you the options of writing new posts or writing a new page. It tells you what kind of status you are in in the blog world. It gives you the number of views, if any, per post.New post-allow you to write a new post.
2.Visit site- visit site ables the blogger to look at their profile page, all this blog posts
3.Write- Write is write a new blog postmanage- manage allows you to view a list of all of your blog posts and their current stats and gives you the option to edit or delete past blog postsdesign-design allows you to decorate/ improve the boring view of a blue profile to change it to other patterned tempatescomments- comments shows you the comments people write about your post, people can approve or edit them however they wish upgrades-upgrades gives you the newest or better ways to change your blog. it shows you payable options in making your blog nicer or more advanced
4.The difference between post, page and link is post is to write a new post easily, page is like post except you writing a page, and link is too link a web link or something to your post.
5.Title it means to title your post. It title the blog. Every blog post should have a title, a main idea of the blog post.
6.A blog is kind of like an open journal on the web. Its a web log where people write about their views on anything and it is shared to anyone on the web.
7.Permalink- is a link that takes you directly to your blog. This helpful because if you wanted to get directly to this blog, the permalink would take you to this blog. It shows up after you post a title.
8.Yes
9.The icons next to add media are icons to add an image, add a video, add audio, add media and add poll.
10.You want a tab that says visual and HTML because the visual tab allows you visually see pictures of the tabs for formatting the post and HTML allows you to view the icons for formatting the post in words.
11.HTML allows you to look a word up or add a link or picture and close tags without losing your work. The icons with odd symbols on them are icons that allow you to insert links, pictures, insert the date and time,close tags and more that could enhance your blog.
12.Visual tabs-Some are for add media:add an image- allows you too insert a picture from you documents, add a video-allows you to add a video from you documents, add audio allows you to insert music, or other audio into your post, add media-allows you to add any media you want to your post and add poll allows you to go to polldaddy.com. Underneath those visual icons are icons for the writing. Bold-makes letters in the post bold, Italic-makes the letters in the post slightly slanted, Strike through- puts a strike through the text in the post, bullets-insert bullet points into the post, numbers for an ordered list, insert numbers onto you text, block quote- moves texts, align left- moves the text to the left side of the post, align center- aligns the text to the middle of the page, align right moves the text to the right, the next two hyper link icons-the first one puts a hyper link onto a text and the second one removes the hyper link from the text, insert more tag-allows you to insert more tabs. toggle spell checker-allows you to correct misspelled words, toggle fullscreenmode-allows you widen your writing page, show/hidden kitchen sink-gives you icons to help you edit your font, the paragraph icon allows you edit and organize your paragraph, underline- allows you to underline specific words of your choice, align full- makes what your typing not enter to the next line when it reaches the right border it ables you to keep typing in that row, select text color- allows you to choose the color of your text, past as plain text-allows you to paste as plain text, paste from word- allows you to paste from word, remove formatting- allows you to go back and remove/ take off any unwanted formatting, insert a custom character-allows you to insert a variety of different custom characters, out dent- takes the dent away, indent-indents the text, undo-allows you to undo anything that you didn’t want in your post, redo-allows you to redo what you undid, help-gives you help on question you might have on the post.
13.Some are “greyed out” because what you are currently typing does not refer to their purpose with your post. for example the hyper link and the remove hyper link are greyed out because you must highlight words, for them to be used and without doing that they won’t work.
14.Tags is for you to add things that your post is about. Like a summery/main idea of your post.
15.A tag is a keyword that helps people trying to find certain topics or blog posts find posts about what they are looking for. It’s very helpful when you are trying to find a specific thing.When they say that “tags enable you to associate..” they mean that tags allow you to find posts with words or topics you are looking for by using a tab.
16.Categories put this specific post in a topic thats related to a group that speaks about that same things that i am talking about. For example if i happened to be writing about food today, i would put in it a food category where people could read what i said about food and about many others writing about food. Mister. Bjerke’s blog is in categories depending on his assignments, environment, grades, exam, HTML, information for the class. Also he has some posts that are not in categories because he has a number of uncategorized posts. the categories to tell us to complete it or not because the ones with assignments, we know that we have to complete, but environmental or uncategorized not as much.
17.Track backs and Excerpts are advanced options, normally i do not use them however, excerpts are optional handcrafted summaries about your post. Trackbacks are a way to notify legacy blog systems that you’ve linked to them, it is also an optional option.
18.Preview- allows you to preview what your post will look like on your page, Post- allows you to write new posts and Publish-allows you to share your blog with the rest of the blog community if you wish.
