Today, we are going to take a look at your blogs. It turns out that a large number of us haven't completely set up the blogs in the correct fashion, so we'll need to review what's necessary and fix anything that isn't working yet.
First, please open up this document.
Our goal for today is to make a blog that looks like this one.
Notice how she has
- her About Me page listed along the top
- there are categories in the sidebar
- she has a tag cloud
- she uses Categories and Tags in her posts
- she's created a custom banner at the top
MOST IMPORTANTLY, notice how she is posting frequently (even when her teachers aren't asking her to)! This is the sort of thing we are creating at SWA: a community where everyone is blogging often, so we can talk to each other about what is happening in other classes.
Also, having all your work posted on your blogs is a GREAT way to keep it all in one spot (which will be very useful to you when you're applying for universities in the future!).
Once you are ready to make a banner, go to www.picnik.com and upload a couple of photos. Please make sure you size your banner as 969 x 213 pixels (we'll go over how to do that in class).
Your first piece of blog homework is to read this post and make a comment on your blog. Due next Tuesday.
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