Greetings students,
Welcome to the Patel School of Global Sustainability Summer 2011 Internships blog. You will be using this site to submit regular blog entries, photos, videos, and other materials to document and share your internship experiences.
If you are familiar with WordPress, the process of uploading and submitting your content will be a breeze, as the USF blog platform runs on the WordPress framework. Instructions for logging in and posting content are below and you are free to contact me, Randall Pape, or Bessie Skoures if you have any trouble working with the site.
Logging In
If you are ready to post content to the blog, head over to the log in page (the log in link will always be available in the right column under ‘Meta’) and enter your USF NetID credentials. Upon successfully logging in you will be redirected to the Dashboard.
Dashboard & Making New Posts
In the menu on the left side of your browser window, select Posts and then Add New. This is where you will write your blog entries and upload any multimedia content you wish to include.
You can type your entry in the text box in the center column of your browser window. There are some simple formatting tools available at the top of the text box that allow you to italicize or bold your text, create lists, add block quotes, and more.
Above the formatting tools there is a link titled ‘Upload/Insert’. Clicking the icon to the right of ‘Upload/Insert’ will open a window that will allow you to upload any type of file you wish from your computer (under 10MB*) or link to other files already hosted somewhere else on the internet.
*if you would like to include files that are larger than 10MB, I suggest uploading them to a file sharing site (YouTube for videos, Sendspace for documents, Flickr for photos, etc.) and linking to them from the ‘Upload/Insert’ window.
Once your post is complete, simply click on the blue ‘Publish’ button in the right column. The page will refresh and a yellow strip will appear at the top of the screen saying your entry has been posted successfully. If you click the ‘View post’ link you’ll be able to see your entry live on the blog.
Editing Your Posts
Each user can edit his or her own posts, but not the posts of other users. To edit your post, simply click ‘Edit this post’ link at the bottom of your post and – provided you have logged in – you’ll be taken to the post entry screen. Make any changes you’d like and click the blue ‘Update’ (in the same place as ‘Publish’) button to update your post.