How to post a blog:
GET STARTED:
Become an instant blogger today. It’s simple, fast and addictive. Here are few simple steps by which you can start blogging right away:
- Click on the ‘post a blog’ link on the left hand side of your dashboard.
- Enter the title of your post in the ‘title’ field.
- Use the ‘post’ field to type your blog content.
- Hit the ‘Publish’ button to publish your blog post.
FORMATTING YOUR BLOG POST BEFORE PUBLISHING
Given below are some of the tools available in the blog editor with which you can format your blog content directly.
Style, Format, Font, Size – Style and Formatting determine the appearance of the HTML text. Use the drop down box to style your text (viz. headings). You can also set the Font face and Size of your text.
Text Color – Allows you to set the highlighted text to a preferred color.
Background Color –Allows you to change the background color behind the text.
Bold, Italic, Underline, Strike Through – Allows you to mark the selected text in bold, italic, underline or strike through.
Insert Numbered List, Insert Bulleted List – Allows you to add numbering or bullets to the highlighted text lines.
Decrease Indent, Increase Indent – Allows you to increase or decrease the text’s indentation.
Left Justify, Center Justify, Right Justify, Block Justify – Allows you to align the text (left, center, right, justified).
Insert/Edit Link, Remove Link – Allows you to add or remove links to the highlighted text. This can also be used to manage your file uploads and links to files on the web server.
Insert Smiley – Allows you to insert emoticons (such as smiley faces, email icon etc).
Insert Special Character – Insert symbols and special characters (such as trademark, currency etc).
ENHANCE YOUR BLOG WITH PHOTOS AND MULTIMEDIA CONTENT
Now add that extra oomph to your blog posts with photos and other multimedia content.
Insert Single Image, Add Photos/Insert from Albums, Insert/Edit Flash, Embed Video – Allows you to insert single or multiple images (please refer to FAQs - Photo Insertion & Manage Photos blogpost posted by Team Sulekha), insert flash files and videos.
PASTING CONTENT PREVIOUSLY ENTERED IN MICROSOFT WORD OR NOTEPAD
If you already have your content entered elsewhere in a Notepad or Word document, follow these simple steps to import it to the blog editor.
Paste as Plain Text – Allows you to paste the text you copied as plain text, with or without formatting.
Paste from Word – Allows you to paste the text copied from Microsoft Word document to the HTML editor using the pop-up prompt that appears with this icon. Using this you can directly import text without changing the format or style.
OTHER USEFUL TOOLS
Use the tools mentioned below for blogging more efficiently.
Source – For advanced users familiar with HTML, this tool enables you to view or edit document source code.
Maximize the Editor Size – Use this to maximize the editor size to full screen and use the same to minimize.
Check Spelling – Allows you to do a spell check on the HTML page.
Preview – Allows you to preview the HTML page so that you can take a look at how the page will look once published.
WHAT ARE CATEGORIES & TAGS?
Categories and Tags allow readers to find your posts with ease. They can be classified under various groups and sub groups.
Categories - Categories are used to broadly classify a blog post. They provide a general ideal about the subject being dealt with. You can choose from the various categories listed below the editor or select ‘Others’ if your post does not fall under any of the specified categories.
Tags, on the other hand, are a set of words or phrases used to provide detailed information or detailed categorization about your blog post, which needs to be specified by you. They are normally words or phrases present in your post. Readers across the Internet who are looking for similar topics can locate your blog post with the help of tags that you specify. Enter as many tags for you posts separating each with a semicolon.
For example: If your blog deals with ‘Women cricketers in Chennai, India’, choose ‘Cricket’ as your category and enter the tags as follows - Women cricketers; Chennai; India.
HOW HELPFUL IS ‘SAVE AS DRAFT’ OPTION?
‘Save as draft’ option allows you to formulate a post through a period of time, without having to take a back up of the content. Your draft gets saved in Sulekha server and can be accessed later on from any computer. You can retrieve your draft under ‘Saved Drafts’ where you can edit and publish it in future.
Click on the ‘Save as Draft’ link to save your work when required. This action will save your blog post without publishing. Once you have completed your blog post, hit ‘Publish’ button to publish your post.
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Hey thanks for the information,
I wanted to know if I can attach some documents (excel/world file) with my blog.
ca amit sharma
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hi ssulekha
pl. let me know how to post my picture in big blog also my friend rita by don,t get my mail . why?
thanks
ctm
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Can we post in hindi??
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Hi,
I want to know how to post a blog in the featured section? When ever I post a blog, it goes in the generic blogs section and does not figure in the featured section. Please help.
Sonal
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is it not possible to copy and paste travelogues from my computer to my blog?
why does it say that pop up blockers have to be disabled?
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Hello Sulekha Team,
While loading the 'Recent Comments' page, there seems to be a problem with the memory usage, page swapping.......this action freezes activity on any other tabs/windows of that browser I may have open. Am not sure if the dynamic loading of content on the 'Recent Comments' page causes this to happen, but it definitely seems buggy and annoying. Hope something can be done to rectify this.
Thanks
Kalyanee
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Dear Sulekha,
I am in big mess, i have posted the review for the travel agent but I want to delete that how would I do that ? Please help me out with this. If I delete my account from thsi would it be solve my problem. I been calling your customer service number but I dont know what option should I choose from you automated system. Please help me out with this. That would be really appreciated.
Binny
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Team Sulekha
Thanks for your help! I see that you were able to post my blog for me...however when I go and try to edit the blog to set all the font sizes and spacing correct, it still gives me 'failure' message. Can you tell me what I need to do to be able to edit the blog?
Appreciate your help!
Wiskyd
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My Dashboard is showing ALERT data that are TWO WEEKS old. Please fix it.
Redards
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