I think the e-mail post affected my blog

Maybe forcing the blog to accept the HTML from my previous e-mail was not such a good idea... the template for my blog does not seem to be working as it should.

The other thing I've found out is that as someone said in the course, accessing blogs from school is not that easy because of the "filters" (which are pretty standard for a school); even when the filter gets open, access time is increased considerably.

We did say the blog is supposed to be an "after-school" support tool, but we need to keep that in mind at all times.

(Edit: December 5, 2008)

No, it was not the post. Now everything works fine and I think the problem was the school filter - accessing from home shows everything is OK.

Another test... posting via e-mail

New Test

In this test I'm trying to add posts using e-mail. Since I chose HTML as my e-mail format, the post should reflect all the formatting changes I made to this text; I added a background to the e-mail to see how it will post.

The second part of the test is to send a post deliberately from an account that is not my g-mail account, just to see what happens.

Here goes...

(Edit: a few minutes later)


So, the background didn't work... I had to take it off and re-send the post. The other thing was I had the message sent to my blog as a draft and when I tried to publish got a weird error message regarding my HTML, but the blog gave me the choice to ignore the error and when I did, it posted ok.

To e-mail posts, here's what you need to do:

1. Go to the dashboard and in your blog choose the "Settings" tab
2. In settings, go to the e-mail tab
3. Configure the e-mail for the blog as required
4. Choose whether you want posts to go straight into the blog or go as draft.

This is a nice procedure for being able to post from practically anywhere as long as you have access to e-mail.

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.