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digital assignment #1: setting up your blog
January 7, 2008 | | Leave a Comment
due: Tuesday, January 15th by 5pm
1. Go to wordpress.com
2. Click on “Get a Wordpress Blog now”
3. Choose a username. Please note that this username will become part of the URL for your blog. For example, the username for this blog is eng105, and the URL is www.eng105.edublogs.org. In other words choose something that isn’t overly complex, is easy to remember, and is a little bit unique and/or “catchy.”
4. Enter email address; check yes to “the terms of service;” and choose “gimme a blog!”
5. On the next screen, create a title for your blog and click Signup.
6. Go to your email and activate your blog.
7. Login; click on your blog name/link on the right-hand side of your screen. This will take you to what is called your “Dashboard”–this is the place from which you control your blog–writing posts, making edits, changing the look of your blog, etc.
8. Click on “Presentation” and then choose a theme. This is what your blog will look like.
9. You now have a blog, and I need the URL or blog address. Again, this should look like www.username.wordpress.com. Your blog address appears at the top of browser screen in the Address or URL line. Please copy this address and email it to me (by Tuesday at 5pm). Remember to follow the guidelines for emails as stated in the syllabus — include your section in the subject line of the e-mail.
For a brief tour of/tutorial on your new wordpress blog, click here
10. To change your password go to Users and Update password.
