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Creating your newsletterIf you set up a WordPress blog for a Troop newsletter on your own domain name, your technical person will copy the software to your server and perform the initial setup. If you use the free WordPress site (here) you will be guided to select a name for the blog and to set up a password and give an email address to use as a user id. When you name your blog, that name will be the first part of dotted name that will be used to access the blog. A good name is important. Good names are short, descriptive and easy to remember. "Troop166News" would be a good name and would become "http://troop166news.wordpress.com" as a name for the WordPress blog that would be your online newsletter. If you are using an exisitng domain name and website, there are a number of different ways to name the part of your site that will be your WordPress blog. Discuss with your web expert how users will accessing the WordPress blog if it is to be a part of your existing website. Once your WordPress blog has been created it will look something like this. Until you change options or themes, this is the view that users will have of the blog/newsletter. To access the controls for the blog/newsletter, click on "Sign-in" in the list of links to the right. Use the id and password that were created when setting up the blog/newsletter. Your user id will be the name of the blog/newsletter and the password will be the password that was created when the blog/newsletter was created. If you should forget your id or password, you can click on the link "Lost your password" and it will be emailed to your email address. |