The following steps will help you manage your Blog, log in to your blog, change your password, and more.

Table of Contents

Logging In to Your Blog
Your blog's URL, How to Link to Your Blog
Displaying your Blog at Your Website
Changing Your Password
Using QuickPost
Further Information on Making a Post
Create an Excerpt Summary
Manage your Reader Comments
Editing a Post
Deleting a Post
Uploading a Photograph and Embedding into a Entry
Archives

Logging In to Your Blog
Assuming you have completed our "Registration" form and have received a confirming email that your Boater's LIFE blog has been set up, you can now access it for editing by going to this url: http://www.blog.boaterslife.com

How to Link to your Blog
When your blog is created we will provide simple IFrame code that you can embed into any html page.  This will incorporate your blog into any site you wish without the "Boater's LIFE" framework.  We will also send you a URL that will link you directly to your online blog as seen by viewers.

Changing Your Password
Do this first! After logging in to your blog for the first time, you should change your password.

On the Main Menu page, under Shortcuts (right side of the page), click Edit Your Profile. Under Change Your Password, enter your new password and confirm. Fill in your birthplace for password recovery.

Don't forget to click Save at the bottom of the page.

Using QuickPost for Convenience
QuickPost allows you to perform one-click posting and publishing without going through the main Blog interface. QuickPost creates a Favorite or Bookmark in your browser that goes to a QuickPost window with a pulldown menu for the weblog to post to, a pulldown menu to select the Post Status of the new entry (Draft or Publish), a text entry box for the Title of the entry, and a text entry box for the entry body.

To set up QuickPost, on the Main Menu page, under Shortcuts (right side of the page), click "Set Up QuickPost". Select the options you want and click "Create", then follow the instructions to install QuickPost.

Further Information on Making a Post
Your can organize your posts by category. Under Primary Category, to the right of Title, you can add a new category by clicking on the dropdown menu or you can assign your post to a category you have already created.

A Post Status of "Publish" does not mean that your post is published immediately. You will always have a chance to preview your post before it is published. But you can set the post to be a draft or a future post.

URLs to Ping allows you to list the URLs you would like to notify that there is a new entry on your blog. If this means nothing to you, ignore it.

Creating an Excerpt Summary
The Excerpt field allows you to write your own summary to your post.

Manage your Reader Comments
If you elected to allow readers to comment on your blog. You may receive comments at any time. They are not posted to your blog unless you approve them. This allows you to build your own interactive community and develop a following.

Editing a Post
After you have posted an entry, you can edit it. On the Main Menu page, under Maintain your Existing Weblogs, beneath Create Entry, click on Entries. This gives you a list of your posts. Click on the post title to edit it.

Deleting a Post
Follow the steps under Editing a Post above to get to the list of your posts. Click in the check box at the right to mark the post for deletion, then click on the Delete button. Click on the "Rebuild My Site" button which appears so that the deleted post will be removed from your site.

Uploading a Photograph and Embedding into an Entry

Archives
Archives of your blog are kept by month and by category or section. On your blog page, you can go to the archives for a month by clicking on the month name under Archives.