Creating Pages = how to create static pages in your blog to provide extra information like an ordinary website. First, a glossary (important = read it to understand this e-course fully): Post = an entry, article, piece of writing or message in your blog. Dashboard = main menu or hub of a blog which provides access to the various elements. Wordpress.com = the recommended blog programme software provider I’m using for ‘free’ blogs. Domain name or URL = the web address of your blog or website. Internet Spiders = robots that search the internet looking for keywords and new material to help with SEO. Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) = improving organic or natural search engine results using spiders. Interaction = the ability to contribute or comment on the internet via blogs and forums. Keywords (Tags) = words that are currently being searched for in search engines and are therefore attractive to internet spiders. Categories = archived topic pages to store posts for research or retrieval purposes. Permalink = each posts’ own specific URL created from its headline or title. Link = an interactive method of getting to another website or blog. Widget = blogging programme or application for the blog’s sidebar.

Now you have created your blog and written some posts, put up pictures and sorted out your widgets, it’s time to edit and create some pages.

You can see that Wordpress has already given you your first page called About, which we need to edit.

 

First, go to the dashboard through the grey link at the top (or as suggested from the e-course ‘Accessing you blog’):

Click on the Edit link under Pages to go to the pages menu:

Mouse over the name of the page you want to change (About) and the quick links come up, click on Edit:

You’ll see it is in the same format as creating a post (see my blogging e-course ‘Writing Posts’ for more information). Now you can change the words to suit you:

When you edit the headline don’t forget to edit the permalink (see definition in the glossary above and more about them in ‘Writing Posts’) too if you want it to be the same. Now pop a picture in (to find out how see my blogging e-course ‘Putting in Pictures’):

And preview it before publishing to make sure all is OK:

Now if you want to create another page, go to the dashboard through your preferred method:

Click on the ‘Add New’ link under ‘Pages’:

Create you page just like creating a post, and publish it:

There you are, two pages done! Visit http://fairyblogmother.co.uk/com/make-a-blog/ to find my other e-courses. © Alice Elliott 2009