Blogging Tips Continued

Hey all,

I saw Charul's Blogging Tips post and thought that I needed to clarify a few things - sorry I wasn't clear from the start!!

In order to be able to blog, I need to send you an invitation to blog on the site. For me to "grant" you permissions, I need your email address that you will be using to blog. After you give this to me, you should get an email from blogger telling you that you are now invited to blog on the site. After you receive that email, you will need to create a username and password on blogger. Only then can you start blogging on the site. You can sign in via the "Sign In" link on the top bar on this page (it is on the top right hand corner).

If you still are not able to blog, let me know and I'll try to research and get back to you. If someone else also wants to have "admin" privileges, let me know and I can do that as well. This basically means that you have the ability to add more people to blog, moderate comments, edit posts that are not written by you :), etc.

In order to post pics the way that Lina and I did in previous posts, follow these instructions:
1) Sign up for Picasa (it is free)
2) Upload your pictures to Picasa
3) After you upload your album, you should see a link on the left hand side of your album that says something along the lines of: "LINK THIS ALBUM". Click on that and then copy the coding under "HTML to embed in website".
4) In your blog post, copy this HTML into the post that you are creating.

I hope this helps - let me know if you all have any other questions!!

UPDATE 8/11:
I have realized that only the admins have the right to update the layout of this site. This means that the admins are the only ones who can update the birthday's in the gray area (right side) as that is a "layout" option I have created. So, if you can just send me your and your children's/significant other's birthdays, I will make sure it is listed on the right side. Also..I'm still waiting on other admin volunteers :)!!!