To help you set up your blog quickly and easily you can use the Easy Admin Quickstart Wizard. It’s a step by step wizard that goes through choosing the theme for your blog (the look and feel) and writing your first post. Choose either Advanced or Easy Admin. The first time you log into your [...]

So aside from being a bizarre word, what exactly is ‘blogging’? The short answer: It’s a way that you can put content (text, pictures, audio, video) onto the internet and discuss it with your audience. One real world analogy is that it’s like standing up infront of an audience and giving a talk, then allowing questions and a [...]

In our previous article we explained catagories and how they can be used to organise our posts. In this article we will take a look at how we actually set this up and assign a post to a particular catagory. We will use the same example post from a Showcase Class Blog. Posts can be [...]

Categories and Tags allow you to organise and classify your blog posts in a quick and simple way. Which in turn lets your readers find the posts and information that they want without having to dig through pages and pages of posts. Categories can be thought of like chapters or the contents page in a book, they [...]

You can use your blog to share all kinds of files, including Word files, Powerpoint slides, PDF Documents and lots of other files for Windows and Mac. This is great for providing homework/assignments to students or letters and other important documents to parents. When you add a document, a link to the file will be inserted allowing the [...]

If you want to display a large number of images, there is a simple way of inserting them into a blog post in the form of an image gallery. 1) First start a new blog post and enter a title. 2) Next begin writing your post, perhaps giving a quick introduction to the photos that [...]

In part 1 of our article on inserting images into posts we looked at uploading an image from your computer, and part 2 covered using an image from another website (a URL). In this, the 3rd part we’ll look at inserting an image from your media library. The media library is a space on your blog [...]

Welcome to the 2nd part of our help article on inserting an image into a post. In this part we will look at inserting an image that is on anotherwebsite, perhaps from a news website, someone elses blog or an image sharing site like Flickr. Remember that it’s always a good idea to ask the permission of [...]

Eventually you will want to jazz up your posts by adding images and photos. Luckily adding an image to a blog post or page is a quick and simple process. You can choose to add an image: From your computer From a URL (a picture on another website) From your blogs media library We will [...]

One thing you will eventually want to do is link to another post, page or piece of information. This could be elsewhere on your blog, perhaps an earlier post that you made, or on another site entirely such as an article on a news website. This can be useful for a number of reasons including: Pointing your readers to [...]