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Online Classroom ~ Moodle

Education on the Internet

Instructor ~ David Donica
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CSCI 28B ~ Web Publishing II ~ Spring 2008  

Weekly Exercise 21b: Read all of the steps before you begin
  1. Post a second entry to you blog. Title? Your choice.
  2. Visit every blog in our class and leave at least one comment on each site.
    1. Student Sites
  3. Move you blog from blogspot (blogger) to the student server for this class.
    1. Under the Settings tab of your blog choose the Publishing tab
    2. Select switch to Classic Template
      1. You will loose the template you started with. If you think you may want to save this template you can download or cut and paste this document for later use
    3. Switch back from the Template tab to the Settings tab and choose Publishing
    4. Choose FTP (Publishing on you own server)
    5. FTP Server: student.ins.siskiyous.edu
    6. Blog URL: Can you figure this out?
    7. FTP Path: Can you figure this out?
    8. Blog Filename: index.htm is default (you can choose your own)
    9. Feed Filename: atom.xml (default ok)
    10. FTP Username: COS username
    11. FTP Password: COS password
    12. Save your settings
  4. Publish you blog to its new site
    1. Check to make sure it worked!
  5. Change the links from your site to the new blog address.
  6. Copy your new template into a text editor (not Word or Wordpad) and save it on your site in your css folder. You can use a .txt extension.
  7. Study the template and see how Blogger creates your site.
  8. Make changes to the style sheet portion of the template.
    1. Fonts - Colors - Anchors - etc - be creative!
  9. Cut and paste your new Template into your site and preview it.
  10. More changes?
    1. Widths?
    2. Links?
    3. ?
  11. Publish your Template.
  12. Create another post with the Title: Exercise 21b
    1. Give a brief summary of your experience with this exercise.
    2. What did you learn?
    3. You opinion on the Template and changing it.
    4. Let the creative juices flow.
  13. When you have made sure everything works email the instructor. Include in the subject - Weekly Exercise 21b Completed. If you use the link provided the subject will automatically be entered.

Helpful Thoughts & Ideas:

  • Did you setup the blog to email you when a comment is posted?
  • Do all of your links work?
  • Did your image load ok?
  • Do you like the layout of your site? How might you change it?
  • Don't forget to send the instructor an email when you are done
 
 

Please send any comments or questions about this site to David Donica.
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