Blogs Help

How do I set up a blog and why would I want to?

A blog is simply an online journal or diary. But unlike a regular diary you can add pictures, videos, widgets and other multimedia to your blog. You can use your SeventyMillion blog to share your thoughts and tips with the world. Maybe you've decided to tell other SEVENTYMILLIONers about your Irish community or project and you want to journalize your experience for others to follow.

Here's how you can add a blog post of your own:

STEP 1 - Go to your profile page (My Page) and click "My Blog".



STEP 2 - Click "Add New Blog Post" in the top right hand corner.


STEP 3 - Give your blog entry a title and add some text. You can use the icons (seen in the screenshot below) to format your text, add pictures, add links and attach files to your blog entry.



STEP 4 - Choose when you want to publish your blog entry (either right away or at some future date) and set who can view your blog entry.

STEP 5 - If you now click on the "My Page" tab to get to your profile and then click "My Blog", you'll see the title your first blog entry! You can edit it at any time and to the right you'll see the "Monthly Archives" box - where all of your blog entries will be stored in date order!


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How do I add pictures to my blog entries?

When you are adding a new blog entry you'll see a series of icons just above the text entry box that look like this:



Click the picture icon (circled in red) and you can choose to either upload a picture from your PC or paste the URL of picture you've already uploaded. If you're not sure about pasting URL's see the question below "How do I let other members know about my blog and new blog entries?".


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Can I add videos to my blog entries?

Absolutely and it's very easy! You can add a video from say YouTube or Meta Cafe (or any video sharing site for that matter)

Simply go to YouTube for example and find the video you want. To the right you'll see a box with some embed code in. Simply copy and paste this into your blog entry and presto... the video will appear (but only after you publish or preview)!


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How do I add links to my blog entries?

When you are adding a new blog entry you'll see a series of icons just above the text entry box that look like this:



Click the link icon and a box will pop up asking you to enter the address (URL) of the page or site you want to link to.

The link code will now be added to your post and the mouse cursor will be flashing between the two arrows like this:

Copy link to blog

Just add some text between the arrows - whatever you want the link to say i.e. "Click here" or "Here's my blog entry". Whatever you type here will be the link text that appears underlined in blue.


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