Language Learning Center
Smullin Hall
Willamette University
900 State Street
Salem, Oregon 97301
(503) 375-5492 voice
llc@willamette.edu
Hours
Monday-Thursday: 8am-9pm
Friday: 8am-5pm
Saturday: 11am-4pm
Sunday: 5-11pm
Willamette Blogs
How do I set up my Willamette blog?
- Go to http://blog.willamette.edu
- Click on Start a New Blog located under Blogland title
- Еnter Willamette username and password
- Your new blog address looks like this: http://blog.willamette.edu/people/username/journal/
How do I post a new entry?
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- Click on Create Entry link or New Entry
- Title – title for the entry
- Entry Body – what will be seen on the main blog page
- Extended Entry – what will be seen once you press the “Read more” link on the main page
- DON’T FORGET to set “Post Status” to Published
Comments could be Open, Closed, or None:
How do I insert a link in my blog entry?
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- Type some text
- Highlight it
- Click on the little chain icon above your blog entry
How do I insert an image in my blog entry?
- Click on the Upload file button, third down from the menu on the left.
- In the box that appears click on the “Browse” button and find the image file on your computer, then click on “Upload”.
- To get the best view of your image, click the check box which asks you to create a thumbnail for this image. This will constrain the on-line dimensions of the image to the proportions that you set below.
- For best view of your camera pictures select 640/480 or 360/480 for the width/height proportions depending on whether the height or the width of your picture is the bigger number. You would also like to select constrain proportions to keep you picture from stretching.
- The “Popup Image” button creates a link to the image on the site whereas, the “Embedded Image” button inserts the image directly.
How to Add YouTube and Google Video videoclips to a Blog
Adding videoclips is easy. Both of the bigger videoclip hosting sites – Google Video and YouTube – provide computer-generated code that you can just copy and paste into your blog.
Here's what you do:
- Open up a clip on either of these sites.
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The keyword you are looking for is "embed."
- In YouTube, to the right of the video box, below the "About the Video" information, you can see an "Embed" control. Right-click on the garbled text (this is the HTML code) and select "Copy."
- In Google Video, you need to click on the button "Embed" and select the other option, "Embed HTML." Right click on the garbled text, and select "Copy."
- Paste the text you copied into your blog entry wherever you would like it to appear. Since they take a little longer to load, if you are using MovableType software that the LLC provides, it is recommended to place the clip in the extended entry. This way you save some loading time for people who are looking for something else.
There are a few other sites out there that provide similar embedded video service and it is not possible to exhaustively list out the instructions for them all. However, they will similarly provide pieces of HTML code that you can copy and paste into your blog.
How do I insert an email link in my blog entry?
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- Type some text
- Highlight it
- Click on the little envelope icon above your blog entry
Other Important Items
On the left side of the screen “Weblog Config” lets you change your Weblog name.
On the left side of the screen “Entries” lets you update old blog entries.
On the left side of the screen “Comments” lets you change comments left to your blog entries by others and delete ones you do not like.