If you are read­ing this blog, then you have already logged into the web­site, using your user­name and pass­word. Once you have signed in, you have access to the blog­ging area by using the menu item Blog on the menu bar. Blogging is for mem­bers only and thus vis­i­tors don’t have access to our blogs. This will very likely influ­ence the con­tent that we will share together.

Reading the blogs

Once logged in, an extra option is added on the menu bar: Blog. This link gives you access to all the blogs. You can read all the posts (blogs), com­ment them, etc.

Writing you own blogs

When you’re logged in you will see on the right-hand side­bar:  Contribute. Click on New Post.

1. Enter a title to iden­tify your post
2. Write the con­tent using the edi­tor which has basic edit­ing func­tions. There are two tabs: Visual and HTML. Use visual, unless you know HTML (code view).
3. If you want to insert a link to a web­site, first write the text, high­light it and then click on the link symbol…
4. For head­ers you can use the for­mat menu.
5. Hover the cur­sor over for­mat­ting icons to get a descrip­tion of their functions.
6. You can also copy your text from a Word doc­u­ment (Word icon) or copy and paste, but the results with some Word Docs are unpre­dictable. It doesn’t hurt to try. Copying Plain unfor­mat­ted text works best, though you’ll have to for­mat it.
7. Don’t for­get to click on Publish or Update but­ton in side­bar on the right when done!

Group mod­er­a­tor

A HTAC board mem­ber will be mod­er­at­ing the posts. Your posts will be posted in the blog sec­tion when the mod­er­a­tor has indexed it  (placed in a cat­e­gory, given it key words) and gone over the page lay­out. If, for one rea­son or another, there needs to be a change in con­tent, the mod­er­a­tor will con­tact the author.

Please write any ques­tion you might have as a com­men­tary to this article.

Alain Gélinas

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