Write a Post
Write a Page
What is the difference between a post and a page?
An example of a post is:
In the example to the right, everything in
the gray area “News and Events” are posts
(“Thank you and Congratulations”, “SHS
College Night for Current Juniors”, etc.).
Each entry was made separately. And as
each entry was made, all existing posts
were moved down. Think of ‘rolling
credits’ at the end of a movie.
An example of a page is:
A page is something that stays more or less
the same unless the web designer adds or
subtracts something on the web page. Most
of the things you see on the web are pages.
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Whether writing a post or page or editing a post or page, there are lots of things you can add to the
information to make it more informative and appealing to your reader. These attributes include:
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Bold text
Italicized text
Strike-thru text
Bullets
Indenting of text
Let/Right/Centering of Text
Hyperlink to another website or
webpage
≈ Add a photo
≈ Ability to shorten a post and
‘squish’ many posts on one page
with a ‘More Tag’
≈ Spellcheck
≈ Embedding a YouTube movie
≈ Password Protect your post or page
≈ Keywords
To use the attributes, drag your cursor over the section on your screen that looks like this: Each of the
little icons will tell you its function.
There are a couple different ways to write posts and write pages. I’m showing just one of these ways.
Write a Post
1. Log onto your website. See the section “Logging onto your website” in chapter 1.
2. Click “Write”. Click “Write Post”.
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3. Your screen looks something like this:
4. On my new website, I would like to write a post to let folks that visit my website that there is a discostyle dance planned for Friday June 21.
Title: Disco Dance Friday June 21
Post (or body of the post): This Friday, the Student Government will be hosting a 70’s themed dance at
the high school. Brush up on your Disco moves! All 7th and 8th grade students are invited. Tickets,
available at the door, are $5.00 each. Doors open at 7:00 pm.
Attributes:
≈ Bold
≈ Hyperlink
≈ Image
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5. My screen now looks like this:
6. Click “Publish”
7. If you want to check and see how your post will appear on the web after clicking “Publish, scroll to the
top of your screen and look for the words “View Site”. Click “View Site”
8. This what my website looks like with
the newly added post:
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Write a page
1. Log onto your website. See the section “Logging onto your website” in chapter 1.
2. Click “Write”. Click “Write Page”.
3. Your screen looks something like this:
4. Complete the different elements of this page such as Page Title, Page Contents, and attributes. See the
discussion above for “Writing A Post”.
5. Click “Publish”
6. If desired, “View Site”
At this point, I encourage you to view the second of the 4 videos found on the edublogs.org website.
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Viewing An Edublogs.org Video
“Writing Posts and Pages”
1. While on the Internet, put this in the address line:
Edublogs.org/support/
Your screen looks like this:
2. Click on “Support Videos”
Your screen will look like this:
3. Click on “Writing Posts & Pages” and view this 11:49 video. It is a great overview of the differences
between writing a post and writing a page and the features available with each web element.
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Short Hand
Write a Post
≈ Log on to your website (for example, folio.stonington.org/jsmith/)
≈ Click ‘Write”
≈ Click “Write Post”
≈ Write the post
≈ Click “Publish”
Write a Page
≈ Log on to your website (for example, folio.stonington.org/jsmith/)
≈ Click “Write”
≈ Click “Write Page”
≈ Write the page
≈ Click “Publish”
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