BlogText Editor

BlogText allows users to insert images and video into blog entries with an easy to use editor. This editor will allow you to create folders for your files. Linking to these images, videos, and files is easy when you use the BlogText entry editor.

After you insert objects such as images, video's, table, and links, you can view thier properties and edit them in the properties section of the editor.

• Insert Link: You can create a hyperlink by selecting text that you have typed in the editor and clicking the  button. You will be asked for a link. After you have created the link, you can change its properties by click on the hyperlink you just created. The properties panel will should look like the image below in the properties panel. From the link properties panel, you can remove the link, change the link to a file you already have or want to uplaod. You can change the target of the link so that it opens in a new window or the same window.
  
  
• Insert Image: To insert an image or images into your blog entry, click the  button. This will open the file explorer. From the file explorer you can create folders, upload mutiple files at once. When you are done uploading files, select the image you want to insert and click insert.
  
  
  If you click on images inside the blogtext editor the properties panel will change to show the properties for the selected image. From the image properties panel you can change the size of the image, link the image to a file, add a border, align the image, and more.
• Insert Video: To insert a video into a blog entry, is very similar to inserting an image. The difference is properties panel for uploaded video. Depending upon the type of video you are inserting, there will be different options in the properties. Video properties include size of video display, alternate image, auto start, show display, show controls, show status bar and video alignment.
  
  
  Inserting Video HTML - If you want to insert video from services like google video or youtube.com, you will need to view the source of your entry. Place the cursor where you want to insert the video code. Then click this  button. Clicking the code/design button will allow you to paste the code for the video. After you paste the video source code you can go back to design mode by click the  button again.
  
• Spell Check: The blogtext editor comes with a spell check and custom dictionary. You will also be able to use the spell check when using other features of blogtext. To start a spell check click the spell check button  in the tool bar, or hilight a word in the editor, right click on it and choose spell check.
• Editor Help: There are a lot more options in the editor. To find out more about them, click the help  button and then click the button you want to know more about.

Entry Features:

• Entry Status: Each entry has a status of Draft or Publish. Draft entries do not show up when visitors view your blog nor can they be searched.
• Entry Date: The entry date can be changed to any date you choose. It defaults to the current date and time.
• Comments: Every entry has the option to allow or not allow comments.
• Comment Notify: Users can choose to recieve email of new comments made to each blog entry.

An entry or blog entry is what you type up and show in your blog. Every entry has specific options for that entry. For example, what you are reading right now is an entry. This entry is in the topic "Entries".

Before an entry can be written a topic has to be created. You can not create a entry without a topic.

For more on topics click here.

To edit an entry you must be logged in to blogtext.org. From the blog manager click "Blog" from the top menu.

After you click blog the page loads with all of your entries. The blog entries are sorted by the created date with the most recent listed at the top.

To edit an entry click the title of the entry.

You can also change how your entries are listed. You can sort your entries ascending or descending by the Topic, Title, # of comments, and date.

If you would like to search for an entry to edit, click the "Blog" link from the top and then click "Search Entries".

Would you like to add images to your blog entries? This is easy to do with blogtext.org

After you have logged in and you are on the create new entry screen there is an icon that looks like a picture frame(). When you click this button a dialog window will open and allow you to upload images.

*Please note that the images kept in this location are separate from images you use for your photo albums.