Week 2: Social Constructions April 13th, 2014
My initial ideas about this topic for my blog and writing about it are:
1. It took me a while to figure out how to even get to my blog spot and login, I am learning.
2. I have now learned to add a new post. I did also read about settings. Now I need to create categories for future posts.
3. This topic will hopefully make me more social and I’ll be able to blog about how I have constructed my blog site.
4. Keep learning by repeating steps and following instructions. I have an urge to dwell too much on it, but I think I have to learn more by doing than thinking about it, so that it becomes more familiar. I think it is like taking baby steps where you just keep getting up after falling down. The more you practice the more it makes sense and becomes second nature.
5. On to my “assign it a category” learning, but first I think I need to publish so here goes, I’m hitting the publish button.
6. Maybe a little soon on the publish button, but it’s nice to know I can update. Have moved my categories up to under the “update” button, since I think it as close to the publish button as I can be now. Have added the categories as assigned on the right side. When I post weekly, the posts will go into one of these categories. Right now I have only Uncategorized blog posts. Sidebars categories will appear when I assign my posts a category. Hitting update, as now I remember the tips say to save and save often. Then I’m going to home page to see what it looks like. No more room on this post? Not exactly, it just keeps scrolling, but for visual, I think I want to keep my posts within about 300 words.
7. I like that edit button on the view post page.
8. I redefined the uncategorized post category to say Set Up. My week 1 blog is now categorized there. I have to figure out how to get this week’s post to show up there as well. This is my next task. Success. I went to my categories page and found the post, hit edit, unchecked the boxes except for the Set Up box. This was all done pretty intuitively. I think I’m beginning to like this blogging technology! On to adding pages for future projects.
9. Pages set up. Time for a break, i.e. fix some food for future brain power to continue these assignments. Publish at a later blog time, logging out for now.
10. I chose my theme, Sea Shores, as it suits my style. But I don’t think it met requirement. It has two sidebars. I love the ocean, but I need to find something else. I settled on a different theme that has only one sidebar. It is not as pretty, but more basic and should work. Double checking now.
11. Some things are so obvious, but if you think too literally about the widgets, you might not figure it out. For example, you won’t find a widget labeled links. Professor Van Londen made that clear in her announcement, but until I realized that, I had added two widgets I didn’t need. Also, I thought the meta tab would have a login option. But alas, I think logout, is part of the same widget for login? I hope I’m right on these.
12. I added descriptions to the post categories to define them there.
