SharingWRJ Central District has developed a blog as an easy way to share and find information about sucessful programs and projects. Click Sharing the Best, WRJ Central Blog What is a "blog"?"Blog" is an abbreviated version of "weblog," which is a term used to describe web sites that maintain an ongoing chronicle of information. It is a frequently updated website featuring commentary about topics of interest-- in our case WRJ Central District activities and issues. Blogs tend to have a few things in common:
Content is the raison d'être for any web site. On a blog, the content consists of articles (also sometimes called "posts" or "entries") that the author(s) writes. Blog "authors" compose their articles in a web-based interface built into the blogging system itself. Instructions for posting articles to the blog are found here. CommentsWith blogs, you can comment or add content to published articles! Posting comments is one of the most exciting features of blogs. The blog provides an interface where you can work in an easy and, to some degree, intuitive manner while it handles the logistics involved in making your composition presentable and publicly available. In other words, you get to focus on what you want to write, and the blogging tool takes care of the rest of the site management. With our's, you can easily compose a blog post, push a button, and be published on the internet, instantly! WordPress goes to great pains to see that your blog posts look good, the text looks beautiful, and the html code it generates conforms to web standards. Our blog is set up so that the administrator approves your comments, so it may not show up instantaneously. A blog is also a good way to keep track of articles. We have an archive based on dates (like a monthly or yearly archive). The front page of a blog may feature a calendar of dates linked to daily archives. Archives can also be based on categories featuring all the articles related to a specific category. |
