The Gospel of John

Some Notes for New Bloggers

Those of you new to this way of sharing ideas might be a little confused as to what's going on. Here are some hints.

Blogger provides a basic text editor for entering messages. It has a spell checker and various other tools, given as icons at the top of the entry window. Most of them are self-explanatory, but if you can't figure them out, a standard mouse-hover over the button will give you a text description.

Note that you can use your favorite text editor or word processor to write message off-line, and then copy and paste the text into the Blogger entry window. This is good for people who get interrupted a lot.

You can leave comments on other people's entries. This is a good thing, like a time-delay conversation Just click on the comments link at the bottom of each post, and then click on "leave a comment" on the next window that opens.

As for what to write, do what you want. Ideas you want to share, personal notes, whatever. Just be advised that this is open to the public. Anyone who wanders in can read what you write, and then leave comments. The vast majority of comments are positive. You can look at other blogs to get examples of what people have written; either click on the "next blog" link at the top of the page, or go to my blog and take a look. There are links on the left side to several other blogs and from those there are even more links.

Have fun!

posted by Larry @ 8:19 AM