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Adding a blog to your website
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A blog is a great way to keep visitors
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up to date with the latest news.
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You can create new blog entries
as often as you want.
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Is like having your own running
commentary on the web,
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giving peoples a great reason
to make your site a regular destination.
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To add a blog to your website
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click "Add Page",
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select the blog template for your site theme
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and then click "Choose".
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Now you have your first blog entry
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with the placeholder photo
and text that you can customize.
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Click the title and type a
name for your blog entry.
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To add your own photo,
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click "Photos"
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and drag an image to the placeholder.
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Click the placeholder text
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and begin type in.
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Your entry can be as long as you want.
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To add a new entry,
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click "Add Entry" and customize
the placeholder elements
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on the new page that appears.
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When you add a blog to your website,
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iWeb automatically creates two pages,
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the summary page and the archive.
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Click the name of your blog
to see the summary page.
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You can customize the blog summaries
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by clicking an entry to
open the summary window.
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You can change where the photo
appears in relation to the text,
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adjust the amount of space
that appear between excerpts
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and even modify the size
and shape of the photos.
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To view you blog archive,
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click "Archive",
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it lists all of your blog entries,
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not just the most recent ones.
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Change the title to match the
name of your blog if you want.
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Once your blog is published
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you can update it and add
entries at any time.
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And when visitors comes to your site
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they'll see the blog and have
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easy access to the latest news.
page revision: 4, last edited: 03 Oct 2009 19:10
Done.
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