For your first blog post, “Getting Started,” make a post to your new WordPress.com blog about anything you want. As you do this, try to experiment a little. For example:
- Mess around with the fonts and the colors of the fonts
- Try to insert an image (you saw the link for how to do that, right?)
- Or anything else.
Besides writing a post, try to create or edit a page on your site. You might want to create a whole new page (again, about whatever you want) or you might want to edit and change the “About” page. Remember! This is important because you will need to post your writing projects as separate pages on your blog, not posts!
Finally, go ahead and set up an Gravatar for yourself, which will appear next to your comments on the class blog.
Once you are done with this, email me the address to your blog so I can link to it.
Remember! your blog address is going to be something like http://something.wordpress.com, where “something” is something you customized.
I may have missed the icons but Im trying to figure out how to change the font other than italic and bold print. where would I find other color options. I have explore how to change the page design and change it, so I am locked in to what they have given me?
Its the last button on the right side of your editing menu for a post, it will say “Show Kitchen Sink” or something along those lines. That brings up a bunch more options.
Will try that thank you.
Do we have to pay for wordpress? If so, can we use another free blog service?
WordPress is free– don’t get the “pay for” option. No, you can’t use another service for our purposes here– stick with wordpress.com.