Tuesday, March 20, 2007

How to Make a Comment

One of our members who recently visited this blog asked me how to leave comments on the blog. It's really pretty simple, once you know how to do it:
  1. At the end of each posting, there is a line that indicates who posted the posting. In the same line, there is a link that says "comments," which identifies how many comments have have been left. Click on the word "comments," and a box appears with instructions.
  2. Type your comment in the space provided.
  3. Below the space where you typed your comment, you will see a set of letters that look like they've been stretched. Type these letters into the "Word Verification" box that appears below them. This is a feature designed to stop spammers from having computers automatically leave comments on a blog.
  4. Choose an identity. If you have a Google or Blogger account, you can choose the first choice and identify yourself this way. Otherwise, choose "Other" or "Anonymous."
  5. Finally, click on "Publish Your Comment." (You can preview the comment before this if you want to and make changes.)

Once comments have been left on the blog, anybody can read them by clicking the "comments" link at the end of the posting. When there are multiple comments to a posting, they appear in the order they were made. Whenever a comment is posted, the Worship Committee is notified by email so that the comments can be monitored for potential problems, such as spam being posted.

This same procedure will work at the Sonshine Choir's blog. www.sonshinechoir.blogspot.com Wouldn't it be nice for the Choir's director to be able to tell the kids that positive comments were posted on the blog about what they've been doing?

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