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Page 1: How To Post A Blog

How to use A4ID Connect

How to post a blog

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What is a Discussion? A Discussion and a Blog is similar in

function. However, the main difference between the two lies in their purpose.

Blog posts are similar to editorials, and is more useful for fully formed pieces of writing where the purpose isn’t so much as to spark off ideas between you and your readers but to deliver a message..

How then, do you create a Blog post on Connect?

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How to post a blog

If you want to post a blog, first go to the blogs page by simply clicking on the “Blogs” link in the top navigational bar.

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How to post a blog You will then be taken to the blog

pages, where you can add a blog post by clicking on “Add a Blog Post” on the right.

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How to post a blog

This will take you to the text entry page.

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Editing your post

The text entry includes standard text formatting options.

Such as Bold Italics Underline And Strikethrough

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Editing your post

Simply highlight the text you wish to format, and click one of the buttons. The HTML code will appear, and bracket the selected words…

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Editing your post but there is no

need to worry as these are merely there to format the text, and will look like this when you post your article. As you can see, the brackets do not appear.

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How to create links, and include pictures

Other more advanced options also exist, such as the ability to…

create a hyperlink ( ), which lets you link to another website.

To include pictures ( ), and… uploading file attachments ( ) from your

computer.

Once again the HTML coding will appear.

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Creating hyperlinks

First highlight the text you wish to make a hyperlink and click on the hyperlink button,

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Creating hyperlinks

A text box will pop up asking you to enter the website address.

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Creating hyperlinks Once you do so, and press enter, or click on the OK

button, the code will be generated into the blog entry box.

The previously highlighted words (in this case the word is “here”) will then become a hyperlink to your desired website (i.e. “http://www.testwebsite.com”)

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Creating hyperlinks You can also use the hyperlink button to

create a hyperlink to an email address. Simply enter “mailto:” before the email address into the textbox that appears when you click on the hyperlink button

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Creating hyperlinks Likewise, the previously highlighted words

(in this case “email”) will then generate HTML code to create a hyperlink to the designated email address.

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Creating hyperlinks

This is what it will look like when you post the article.

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How to add a picture Adding pictures is

simple. Simply click on the button and then a box will appear asking you to either provide the address to a picture that has already been uploaded, or to upload a picture from your computer, as you would an email attachment.

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How to add a picture

You also have more advanced formatting options when you click on “options”

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How to add a picture Once you click on “add” the code for

will be generated at the top of the text entry box.

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How to add a picture If you wish for the picture to appear below

some text (in the example: “Look at this picture!”) , you must cut the code and paste it below the text you wish for the image to appear after.

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How to add a picture

This is what it will look like.

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How to add files You may also attach

files to your post by clicking on the upload file button ( ) once again a dialogue box appears. Simply locate the file as you would for an email attachment, and click “Add”.

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How to add files

Once again the code will be generated at the top of the text entry box

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How to add files

As with posting images, If you wish for the picture to appear below some text, you must cut the code and paste the code to appear below the text you wish for the attachment to appear.

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How to add files

This is the end result

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How to post a blog Once you have

finished typing up your blog. Click on Preview to see what the finished post will look like, and if you’re happy with the work click on publish.

The post then will appear on the blog page once it has been approved.