Setup your blog

Follow the create blog at Earlham instructions to create and configure your weblog

class exercise

Do the following assignment and type your answers into a new blog entry:

  1. experiment with bold and italic text. What html codes are used for these?
  2. What's the difference in the blog display between text entered into the Entry Body and into Extended Entry?
  3. Why might you want to use Extended Entries? Take a look at the Sys /Net Log blog to see how extended entries can be used effectively.
  4. What happens if the "Post Status" is set to Draft? How would you then Publish your entry afterwards?
  5. Add a URL link to the blog entry. test it to make sure it works.