All,

Hi, know there is a bit of confusion for some of you about what should your project site look like.   So for your project site let’s do the following so it reflects more of a focus on your research project and Creative Display and not focus so much on the Journal as your front page.

(If you have done this already you can ignore this email!).

First create an Introduction page and a Journal page by:

1.  Going into your site Dashboard.
2.  Click on Pages and Add New.
3.  Add an Introduction page and publish this.
4.  Add a Journal page and publish this.

Now you need to reset the site so the Introduction Page is your front/home page and the Journal Page is where all your Journal entries go.  Do this by:

1.  Going into your site Dashboard.
2.  Locate the Settings area.
3.  Click on Reading.
4.  Find the top “Front page displays” area.
5.  Click on the option for “A static page (select below)”
6.  For “Front page:” select in the drop down options your Introduction page.
7.  For the “Posts page:” select in the drop down options your Journal page.
8.  Save Changes. (scroll down to the bottom for the “Save Changes” button)

Now your site’s home page will be the Introduction page so it is now VERY important to put on this Introduction page some information about your project.  You should have from our previous work session on that hand out we all went through step-by-step an Introduction paragraph, which you can add.  Also don’t forget pictures of your Creative Display and research here too!

And any Journal postings you add will automatically go to the Journal page.

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For working with the Pages and Menu see this tutorial video:

http://help.edublogs.org/custom-menu/

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Any questions let me know, and also let me know if you want to meet to go over any of this.

Best,

Robert