Blog Update

I thought it would be a good idea to put an update and let everyone know exactly what is going on and what capabilities you, as members, have.

1. This is most likely the final design for the blog, we discussed themes on Wednesday and there seemed to be no objections. We will likely keep the pages we have now, but if you have any suggestions for additional pages, please let us know.
2. All members (with a few exceptions, and you will be notified separately) are automatically contributors. Look for a post soon that details your powers.
3. We have set up an e-mail address which can be found on the “Contact Us” page.
4. If you have any comments or suggestions for the blog, please add them here (for now) so that they are all in one place.

We sent out new e-mails to most of you on Wednesday, so hopefully we’ll be seeing you soon…

Update: Rank Powers

1. Administrator
The Admin can do everything. Complete power over posts, comments, settings, theme choice, import, users – the whole shebang. Nothing is off-limits, including deleting the entire blog.

2. Editor
They can publish any posts, edit any posts, edit any published posts, edit any pages, moderate comments, manage categories, manage links and upload files. They can also delete any posts and any pages. They can read, edit and delete private posts.

3. Author
Is able to edit their posts, publish their posts and upload files. And they can delete their posts too.

4. Contributor
They can edit their posts but cannot publish. Basically contributors can write posts and save them, but they have to be approved by someone who can publish.

Boxes of Text

If you look on the sidebar, you’ll see that we can post text there. I was thinking that we could have some updatable “verse of the week” or “quote of the week” (or some kind of combination of the two). I was just thinking we need more Jesus in our blog. Suggestions below?
I’ll put something there for now.

Instructions to Set Up an Account on WordPress

I created several other email accounts and tested what exactly needed to be done to just create an account and not a blog. It was surprisingly more difficult than I thought, since they throw so many options at you, but here is what is needed to be done:

1)      Click the link on the invitation email and fill in your username (anything you want), password (try using letters AND numbers to make it secure), and email

2)      Select “Just a Username please!” and hit next to continue

3)     You will be sent another email, activate your account by clicking the link

4)   Your account is created, go to your options and fill in your name and nickname, and set it so that you are publicly known by your first name last initial (ex: JasonM)

You can also set an avatar and etc. Just go ahead and play with the options.

Problems Registering?

OK, its confirmed that the emails didn’t go out correctly. No one is actually being registered for the blog when they sign up, so i’m going to try to resend the emails. It was a really boneheaded mistake. Somehow it still worked for Blair, so I think I did it correctly for her only. This is a big headache.

Should We Have a Forum?

I remember someone suggesting that we should have a forum, so after 5 minutes I came up with this.

I personally don’t think that we really need one, but if everyone else thinks that it is a good idea, I’ll go through it and completely set it up. Otherwise, if it remains unused, I will probably delete it.

Blog Almost Ready

I think this blog is pretty much set up, but I need everyone’s email addresses to invite them to join.

Remember, when signing up, you can choose any user name, but you need to go to “Your Profile” under “users” and set your nickname as your first name and last initial (ex: JasonM) and put in your real first name as your first name and your last name as your last initial. Save it and set your account to be publically known as your first name last initial.

You can also set an avatar (a picture that will appear beside your name) in the “Your Profile” option.

I will need 1-2 editors to help run the blog, and Matthew has already asked to be one of them. If anyone else is interested, email me or talk to me at a meeting.

mooresnakes@roadrunner.com

The Opening of THE ZAO WEBLOG!!!!

Here’s what it looks like for now, we still need to vote on a theme and I need to add more on the sidebar. I think that the user registration should work If I invite everyone.