This may be obvious but...

If you have more than one blog, clicking on the "B" logo on the top-left corner of your blog will send you to the Dashboard, where you can choose which blog to enter without having to go all the way out to your Google account.

Adding a PowerPoint presentation to a blog

Ok, here is one more test. I'm trying to add a PowerPoint presentation to my blog. When I tried this the first time in the course "Tecnología Aplicada en Educación" it didn't always work, and I think that also had to do with using HTML vs. XML.

Here's the test...



(Edit: a few minutes later)

Here's how I made it work:

1. I uploaded the presentation to Google Docs
2. In Google Docs, I selected the presentation and in the sharing tab I chose Publish/Embed
3. I copied the HTML code that appears in the Embed box, and pasted it in my blog post, using the EDIT HTML tab, not the Compose Tab.
4. I clicked in Publish Post

Voilá! There it is.

My first post - choosing a Template

So, this is the first post in my blog - I'm testing stuff here so I can use it elsewhere. What I'm trying to do tonight is test templates for the blog... let's see if it worked.

(Edit: a few minutes later) Yay! It worked! So, there are two ways of saving/formatting templates:

• classic - this is HTML code; if you want to use a template created in HTML you have to use the "revert to classic" button in the Template tab.
• upgrade - this is XML code; it is the default setting for templates in Blogger so even though the little tab on top of posts and templates says Edit HTML, for the site templates its default setting is XML, which means regular HTML doesn't always work properly.

What I have found out is, unless you are very good at programming code (HTML, XML) you should probably stick to the default (upgraded) way to design your blog; if you choose a template from one of the many websites providing them and it doesn't work, choose another one! It will save time and aggravation.