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Blog Posts
By default, only admins can post to the blog. Go toFeatures/Permissions > Blog to designate if “Contributors or “Registered Users” or “Unregistered Visitors” can also contribute. The blog will aggregate content from any of the user roles you allow to post. To designate a specific user to a role, see above: Manage Users > All Users
There are two ways to post to the blog. First, you can go to “Add Content” and choose the “Add Blog Post” icon.
Or, if you are on your homepage, a blog post page or a custom page, you’ll find a link to Add Blog Post in the Admin bar at the top of the site.
The blog post pop up has a place for a title and a “body” field to write text or post media. Above the text is the same formatting bar we saw before in Multipurpose widgets.
Use this formatting bar to insert hyperlinks, upload photos (click the camera icon) or videos (click the film strip icon), or style your text so it’s bold, ital or underlined. You can also change the typeface or typesize via the format bar (not pictured)
You can also edit your post in a larger screen by clicking on the icon of the screen. Or, enlarge the body just by dragging it down by the small triangle at the bottom right of the “body” field.
For a hyperlink, underline the text you want to link out, then click on the icon that looks like a link in a chain.
A pop up will prompt you to enter the URL of the link
Only part of the blog post – the teaser – will appear in the blog widget that appears by default on the homepage. If you want to choose the part of the post to appear in the teaser, then click on the teaser icon – it looks like a page broken into a two parts. 
Place your cursor where you want the teaser to end, and click on the teaser icon. A “break” line will appear. You can delete the break line if you change your mind.
When you’re ready to publish, just click Post at the bottom of the page.
If you decide you want to edit your blog posts, you can do so right from the page where it appears. Click on Edit Blog on the Admin Bar, to the right of the “Administration Panel” link.
If you want to edit or delete a lot of blog posts at once, go to Manage Content > Manage Blog Posts. You can sort by user or date to make it easier to find the blog posts you want to edit.
One bit of semi-jargon: if you go to “Operations,” you can choose to “Unpublish” content. Unpublished content won’t be visible to your visitors, but you can still edit it and publish it back again if you’d like. But if you “delete” the “node,” it’s gone forever.
Static Page
Static pages are as simple to create as a blog post. The difference is that static pages stand alone on the navigation as a new menu items on your site, whereas blog posts all roll into the stream of new posts every time a new one is create. You can create as many static pages as you’d like and use them for content that you want prominently displayed, and won’t change very often – e.g. a guide, article or a page of staff bios.
See the instructions above about blog posts to learn about using the formatting bar that pops up when you create a static page. You can add photos, videos, links, styled text and more.
Your site starts out with a sample static page, the About page. When About is open, you can easily edit or delete this page via the link “Edit Page” next to Help on the Admin Bar on the top of your site.
Image Galleries
On your website’s navigation (or menu), you’ll see an Image Gallery, already configured with sample photos. You can also create a new image gallery by going to Add Content > Image Gallery – this will then show up as a new page on your website’s navigation menu.
We suggest you start with the Image Gallery already in place. You can rename it by clicking on the Edit Gallery link, right next to the Administration Panel link. You can also add new images from this location by clicking on Add Image, right next to Edit gallery. There’s an additional Add Image link right above the actual images on the page.
When you click on a sample image in the gallery, it triggers a pop up window highlighting the image. If there’s more than one image in the gallery, the pop ups will advance as a slideshow.
Each image also has its own page where visitors can leave comments and five star ratings. On the pop up, just click on the title of the image or “Go to image page!” You need to go to the image page if you want to read the comments or edit/delete the image directly from the page. (You can also go to Manage Content > Manage Images to edit many images from one place.)
When you try to load a new image, you’ll be promoted to find it on your desktop. There’s a 2 MB size limit and images that are larger than 640 X 400 pixels will be scaled down so they can fit inside your site.
We recommend you stick to jpegs. If you load .pngs, the larger file sizes will slow down your page loads.
Image galleries are set up by default at three columns wide and for rows deep, but you can vary that, anywhere from 1 - 4 columns and 1 - 20 rows, by clicking on the Configure rows & columns link. For now, whatever configuration you choose will apply to all gallery pages you set up.
The configure rows and columns link will jump you to a new page – Features and Permissions. Look for Image Galleries > Choose Rows and Columns.
Clicking on Choose Rows and Columns triggers an easy-to-use pop up. When you’re done, if you want to see the results, find your way back to the gallery you came from via your own website’s navigation.
One other hint: once you have your image gallery(s) in place, you should consider using the Gallery widget back in Widgets/Layout under the General Category. It’s a nice way to let visitors on the homepage to see what’s going on as you update galleries.