Today you are going to discover how to upload graphics and display them in your blog. You'll also practice formatting text with the Textile codes and you'll practice URL links and find that it's little more than a drag-and-drop operation.
Create uploading instructions

You need to to do this Lab assignment in pairs, so find a partner .

Your assignment is to write instructions in a "cookbook" style that will enable a novice user to upload a graphic file into your blog and add it to a blog entry both as an embedded image and a popup image (you need to do both). Use screen shots of the windows employed.( Refer to the screen capture and save instructions to refresh your memory).

Enter these instructions including the screen shot graphics into both partner's blogs for grading.
suggested procedure

You'll need to discover how to upload a file and display as a graphic first of all and then repeat the procedure to write down the steps involved.

  1. Figure out how to upload a file (use the screen shot gifs you created last week) and how to display it both as an embedded image and a popup image in a blog entry. You will probably need to practice this a few times.
  2. Once you know what to do, go through the procedure again and carefully write down the steps you used. Make screen-shots of important windows to illustrate the process.
  3. Now have your partner follow your own instructions to the letter to test them out.
  4. Once you are satisfied that your instructions work well, type them in to your blog and add the screen shots
Textile formatting Take a look at my Management Blog to see how Textile formatting can be used to easily format text and add URLs. Create a blog entry in your own blog that uses all the formatting and URL options that you see here.