Seems like a few of you are still having trouble navigating around the new Blogger interface. I agree, it's not as user friendly as the old one, but we have to put up with it now it's been forced on us.
I'm going to start with a simple lesson that I hope will be useful to those of you still suffering.
Let's start by finding the dashboard.
They've removed the thing that takes you directly to it - so if you haven't got it bookmarked, go to someone else's blog, and there will be a link in the top right hand corner. (next to sign out)
Double click on that and you'll get to the Dashboard.
If (unlike me) you only have one blog, it will be relatively simple to find your way around.
The title of your blog will be at the top of the page and, to the right, you'll find an orange oblong with a square on it, a picture of two sheets of paper with a little triangle next to them, and another square that says View Blog.
Let's do the easy bit first. View Blog will let you do that exactly. If you click on it, you'll get the front page of your blog.
The orange oblong is your "new post" link. If you want to write a new post, click that.
Editing a post
Which leaves us with the middle bit with the pages on it.
Click once on the little triangle to the right. That opens a pull down menu.
The bit you need to know for now is Posts.
Click once on Posts.
That will present you with a list of the posts you have written so far.
To Edit a post:
Find the title, click on the little square to the left. That will put a little tick into the square and open up four choices below the title: Edit View Share Delete
Click once on Edit. Hey presto! Your post is there, ready to edit.
Make your changes.
To add labels, click on labels at the right hand side. Remember to separate them with commas. And click the oblong Done button when you're finished.
Now click the Update button (orange one at the top), and you're back to the list.
Tick the box, click View, and there's your updated post.
If this was useful, let me know. I'll sort out lesson two later.
I'm going to start with a simple lesson that I hope will be useful to those of you still suffering.
Let's start by finding the dashboard.
They've removed the thing that takes you directly to it - so if you haven't got it bookmarked, go to someone else's blog, and there will be a link in the top right hand corner. (next to sign out)
Double click on that and you'll get to the Dashboard.
If (unlike me) you only have one blog, it will be relatively simple to find your way around.
The title of your blog will be at the top of the page and, to the right, you'll find an orange oblong with a square on it, a picture of two sheets of paper with a little triangle next to them, and another square that says View Blog.
Let's do the easy bit first. View Blog will let you do that exactly. If you click on it, you'll get the front page of your blog.
The orange oblong is your "new post" link. If you want to write a new post, click that.
Editing a post
Which leaves us with the middle bit with the pages on it.
Click once on the little triangle to the right. That opens a pull down menu.
The bit you need to know for now is Posts.
Click once on Posts.
That will present you with a list of the posts you have written so far.
To Edit a post:
Find the title, click on the little square to the left. That will put a little tick into the square and open up four choices below the title: Edit View Share Delete
Click once on Edit. Hey presto! Your post is there, ready to edit.
Make your changes.
To add labels, click on labels at the right hand side. Remember to separate them with commas. And click the oblong Done button when you're finished.
Now click the Update button (orange one at the top), and you're back to the list.
Tick the box, click View, and there's your updated post.
If this was useful, let me know. I'll sort out lesson two later.
