Blogging @ the UA
These Illustrated Guides are updated for Movable Type version 5, June 2010. They take you step-by-step through using your blog. Click to download each PDF file. [Guides, videos and information on using the OIA's Drupal CMS blogs.]
- Signing In to Your Blog
- Changing Your Initial Password
- Creating A Blog Entry
- Posting A Comment to an Entry
- Uploading to a Blog (Images and Other Types of Files)
- Managing the Address Book and Emailing Notifications
- Adding Accents Marks to Blog Entries and Comments
- Trips and Traps: Refresh the browser
- Trips and Traps: Formatting text in your entries correctly
You may also wish to review the Movable Type Authoring Guide.
OIA Administrative Practices
The OIA manages a server-side installation of Six Apart's Movable Type publishing system that was originally installed in the spring of 2003, and upgraded to the newest releases since then.
At the end of the semester, OIA staff archives that semester's blogs. Unless the blog is on-going, it is deleted along with the associated author privileges. Instructors may request a CD-ROM containing the HTML files of their course blog entries. Faculty and instructors who prefer to administer the site themselves may request blog administrator privileges. Otherwise, OIA staff manages the site. Anyone publishing entries to a blog must be assigned authoring privileges by OIA staff. Instructors will need to provide student firstname lastname and UA email address for students who will be authoring entries. This is not necessary if students are only adding comments to the instructor's entries. Authoring privileges for persons not with the UA, that is they do not have a UA Net ID, must state in an email message to OIA staff that they have read and agree to abide by the UA's Acceptable Use of Computers and Networks policy.
Mozilla Firefox Live Bookmarks:
Mozilla's Firefox browser has the capability to recognize a webpage that is pushing out an RSS feed, such as blogs and news sources. If you go to such a page, look for this image 
in the address bar. Watch a Flash movie on setting up Firefox Live Bookmarks. [3:17]
