Nature-Image - WordPress

Go to http://blogs.evergreen.edu to create your acount and blog. See Creating a new blog for detailed instructions.
Dashboard overview
Change the site's title and subtitle Settings > General
Privacy settings - control who can see your site or if search engines will index your site Settings > Privacy

Creating posts
Using the rich text editor
Images, media and linking to files
Controlling commenting & publishing
- set your comment preferences for all new pages/posts Settings > Discussion
Pages versus Posts
Creating pages and your site's navigation
- working with sub-pages
Editing already existing pages and posts

Trying out new Themes Appearance > Themes
Customize your header or banner image
- some themes allow for you to add your own header image Appearance > Header Image (may only appear if your chosen theme supports custom header images)

Important: Find a theme that meets your layout requirements.

New to WordPress3 is a way to control your site's navigational menus. From the dashboard choose Appearance > Menus

Look in Theme locations to see if your chosen theme supports the new WordPress3 menu system.

Add functionality to your site's sidebar(s) Appearance > Widget

useful for categorizing differnt types of posts. A category page for each is automatically created. Use the Category Widget to display in your sidebar.

You can write custom CSS to override the theme's CSS. Go Appearance > Custom CSS

You'll need to learn a bit about how your theme is structured. Some great tools for this are:

Plugins add functionality to your site. To use them use must first activate. Some useful plugins include:

Wordpress Tutorials Please note: some of these tutorials assume you have administrative access to your blog's server. You don't.
Introduction to CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)