FUUN Blog Instructions

Committee Chairs and Board members who wish to be able to add to the FUUN Blog, here's how you do it:

  1. Ask the webmasters (webmaster@firstuunashville.org) to set you up an account.
  2. Once your account is set up, go to the Log In page.
  3. Enter the Username and Password the webmaster has given you.
  4. At this point you have various options.
    1. Change your password. Click on "Profile" in the menu near the top of the page. Scroll to the bottom right of the page where it says "Update Your Password."
    2. Make a new entry that will show in the blog and on the home page. To do this click on "Post" and then "Add New" in the menu on the left. Fill it out as follows:
      1. The top box (under "Add New Post") is your headline.
      2. Upload/insert is where you put the text.
      3. Categories (on the right) choose your Committee
      4. Click on Publish.
        Those are the big three. You can use the other features to tweak your announcement.
      5. Ta-dah! Your entry will now be live on the web for all to see!
    3. To edit an entry you have already made (e.g. you misspelled something). Click on "Posts" in the menu on the left. Then click on on the entry that needs editing.
    4. To delete an entry: this is very important to do once an event is over and the webmasters will heap blessings on you for remembering. Click on "Posts" in the menu on the left. Then hover ove the post that needs to be deleted and click "Delete."

Top 3 FUUN Blog Tips

Want to make your FUUN blog posts easier for website users to read and understand? Here are three simple things you can do to make this so.

  1. Use the "Excerpt" field -- the third box down on the "Add a New Post" page. If you use this field, you have complete control over the summary that shows on the FUUN home page (rather than having it show the first 40 words, which might or might not get to the point you want to make).
  2. If your post is an event, in the Categories box on the right, check "Activities." Then it will show on the Activities / What's Happening page. Same goes for Adult RE Current Classes and Social Justice.
  3. Last, but not least, clean up Microsoft (Word, Outlook, etc.) formatting -- especially if you want to make your blog editors and webmasters happy. This is the single biggest blog headache they have to deal with. Sometimes the blog formatting gets so bad it breaks the church home page! And it's easy to take care of. Here's how....

    Instructions
    First, make sure you have two rows of icons showing in the main blog post field. If you don't, click the rightmost ("Show/Hide") icon. Then, in the second row, click the fifth ("Paste as Plain Text") icon. You can also use the next ("Paste from Word") icon, but it doesn't clean up the text quite as thoroughly.