Your blog is an important part of Bioneers website. Your contributions will be featured directly on our homepage. As a contributor to our site, we want to make it as easy as possible for you to get your content up. That is why we've created this step by step tutorial.

To begin, lets take a look at you personal blog page. At this point it might be helpful to open another window and go to the bioneers.org homepage, that way you'll still be able to read this documentation as you follow along. To open another window,

click here -> http://www.bioneers.org

If you look in the lavendar navigation sidebar on the right side of the page (which I'll refer to as the "right-sidebar"), you'll see a link to "my blog" under section of the right-sidbar with your user name.

If you don't see this link, your probably not logged in. Once you click on this link you should load a page that looks like this:

Click on the "Post new blog entry" link and this will allow you to enter the Title of your new post:

Select from the subsite dropdown:

This will determine which section of the site your blog posts to. 

Now you're ready to add the Body of your entry.

The Body section of your post is a fairly standard WYSIWYG editor. As you can see there is a fairly standard selection of formating tools which allow you to make your text Bold, Italics, Underlined, Strikethrough, align-right, centered, align-left, justified, bulleted, numbered, undo, and redo. Leaving your mouse pointer hovered over each of these icons will pop-up context help describing what they do:

Go ahead and type in some text and try to play around with these formatting features.

Now we'll try to add some links to page. In order to add a link, you must first type a word you want to be the link. highlight it with your mouse. Now look at the toolbar just to right of all the formating features and you'll see what look like links in a chain:

Remeber: you must highlight the words you want to link to first, otherwise you will not be able to see the above link icon. Go ahead and click on the icon and a box should pop up:

Enter the URL of the site you want to link to. Make sure to enter the full address as it appears in your browser, remebering to include the http:// part at the begining. If you don't include the http:// your link will not work!

Igoring the Target, Title and Class fields, go ahead and click the Insert button.

You should now have a high lighted link in the body of your page.