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Here are generic instructions on uploading documents to your blog and linking to them from a page: Steps: 1. remove the spaces in the names of the documents you have to upload. 2. logon to your blog and go to Dashboard 3. click on “Media” 4. click on “Add New” and a new page opens [...]

Blogs are vulnerable to people who create viruses, back-end malware, etc. Thanks to Gregg Wrisley, we learned about the latest one, called the  Timthumb.php vulnerability. It’s actually not a joke. You need to upload the plugin to your blog if it’s not already there and it will proactively deal with possible intrusions on your blog [...]

Project Grad needs you! Project Graduation is the all night celebration put on for the seniors following their graduation ceremony. This year it will be March 31st. There are several committee positions that need to be filled by underclass parents. Please come to our Kick off meeting next Tuesday Sept. 20th at 7:00 in the [...]

To upload a pdf (or a photo, or a word document, etc.), go to the dashboard and click on the image (to the right of Upload/insert). That takes you to the “Add media files from your computer” page. Click on “Choose file”.  Find the document on your computer. Then click the “upload” button. The document [...]

Q. I am having difficulty getting logged on to my blog.  I changed the theme the other day and when I went back to log on there was no place to do it. How do I log on? A. Some of these blog appearances just don’t give a way to log in.  To find the [...]

An Analy user who likes iWeb (a web page creation program native to the Mac) would like to be able to use different computers to edit the same web site. Dreamweaver and other web page managing applications deal with this issue easily–just download the site or folder or document and edit them and then FTP [...]

Tired of your blog’s look and can’t find another in your library of appearances to suit you? Install a new one. It’s easy, a couch potato‘s dream. Go to Dashboard and click Appearances. Across the top there is a tab called “Install Themes.” Click it and a menu opens. You can either check the boxes [...]

The data below are taken from a random sample of California households in 2009 (see the source below). The table only includes the subsample of households with high school age children. These data may not reflect what is happening at Analy High School but they do provide teachers some food for thought. Table 1. California [...]

To make your Google calendar public you can follow their instructions but this may be easier: you go to “My calendars” (left hand column) and click on the downward pointing triangle to the right of your calendar. A menu opens (see image below). Pick “Share this calendar”. When you do that another page opens. On [...]

Okay, so you’ve created a calendar in Google and made it public, so now you want to embed it on your web page? You can either follow Google’s instructions but this brief instruction works for most people: Go to your calendar. On the left hand column of the page go to “My calendars” and click [...]