It seemed that a lot of people liked the idea of creating a single After Game Day topic with a link to each contributor's specific award. In order to do this, each contributor who is sponsoring an award will have to create a sub-blog for that award. Now don't go crawling into the fetal position just yet, it's ain't that tough and the instructions are below. I'm ready to lend all the help and support you may need, and I'm sure the other 12SS admins will pitch in too.
You may want to copy and paste the steps below into Word or Notepad and print them out, so you can follow them after you click off this screen. You could also open the 12SS blog in a separate Explorer window and swap between the two as you proceed.
Creating your very own Awards Sub-Blog
1. log into the 12 Seahawks Street blog, if you're not auto logged in
2. click the orange Blogger icon in the upper left corner of the window
3. click the big blue Create A Blog button
4. give your blog a title, i.e. Alan's Drive of the Game
5. for the Blog Address, use 12SeahawksStreet-
6. type the Word verification and click the Continue arrow
7. scroll down and pick the Rounders 3 template (5 rows down, second template) and click the Continue arrow
8. click the Start Posting arrow
9. create a dummy post, or your real award post, and you'll be able to view your blog
10. email albanyhawker@yahoo.com with the exact name of your blog, so it can be added to the After Game Day Awards post
At this point your blog won't look exactly like the Street, but it will contain a lot of the same colors and formats.
Once you create your blog, you can either go to Settings > Members and invite me to participate in it, or just email me (address above) and I'll send you the standard Template HTML code, and some other tips, to configure your blog to appear as a sub-blog to The Street. Make sure to include your exact Blog Address, so that I can add it to the single After Game Day topic for Blogger Awards.
It's really not that hard so I recommend all award sponsors give it a try. I'll be out on Sat. and Sun. afternoon, but am happy to help anyone with questions or problems. I was intimidated by this whole blog thing when I started, and now I'm involved in or managing six!
Nice idea.... Maybe we can povide a simple template so they can replace the 'rounders' and stick with the theme.
ReplyDeletePosted by Bluefoot
Also the nice thing about having you own sub-blog is that you can use it to save your own long rant/editorial/article posts, link to them from your own site, much like alba does with his AAS blog, and I did at my sub blog.
ReplyDeleteThat's where I'll be posting mine.
OK, both Alan and check have created sub blogs for their awards, which are linked on the sample After Game Day post if you want to check em out.
ReplyDeleteHope you didn't mind my linking it on your post (i know you dont) but I had a little spare time to fill today.
ReplyDeleteSee ya'll in the morning.
BTW, WSU now 3-0! Yahooooooooooooiiieeeee.
Posted by check
Absolutely not, check! The more hands helping out, the better this blog becomes!
ReplyDeletePosted by alba