• If you don’t know what widgets are, don’t worry, nothing will change with your blog.
• If you know what they are and want to use widgets on your UNE Themed blog, complete the following steps:

1. Login to your ‘Dashboard’.
2. Select ‘Presentation’.
3. If your “Current Theme” is “UNE Theme 1.1″, you can select ‘Widgets’.
4. Drag and drop the “Available Widgets” you want to use onto your sidebar in the order you desire and customise them as you see fit.
5. ‘Save Changes >>’

Then you will have a lovely customisable sidebar with the ability to add a calendar of posts, a textbox with your own HTML code and many other options.

If this update has caused a problem to your blog, or you’d simply like to know more about using widgets, please feel free to email me ross.bennetts@une.edu.au or leave a comment below.

And if you use a particular widget on another WordPress blog that we don’t have yet at UNE, email me with the details of what it does and I’ll look into the possibility of getting it installed.

Thanks…
Ross M. W. Bennetts
Web Editor

This is required for a hardware upgrade.

If the upgrade causes any problems with your blog, please enter the details including the problem, and the name of your blog in either a comment to this post, or an email to me, ross.bennetts@une.edu.au

Thanks…
Ross M. W. Bennetts
Web Editor

This is required for a software upgrade.

If the upgrade causes any problems with your blog, please enter the details including the problem, and the name of your blog in either a comment to this post, or an email to me, ross.bennetts@une.edu.au

Thanks…
Ross M. W. Bennetts
Web Editor

It should only take a minute and be relatively unnoticeable.

If the upgrade should cause any problem with your blog please either post a comment here or email ross.bennetts@une.edu.au

Our last little bit of downtime allowed me to upgrade the blog software (which broke a few themes… sorry) and install some new plugins.

I’ll post details on how to do some cool new things with your blog soon, like embedding YouTube Videos and an MP3 player.

In the meantime…
Happy Blogging…
Ross M. W. Bennetts

http://blog.une.edu.au/

http://forum.une.edu.au/

Sorry for any inconvenience…

Ross M. W. Bennetts
UNE Web Editor

Blogs, or web-logs, are user-generated web sites that consist of a number of ‘posts’ usually presented in reverse chronological order. Recent estimates put the number of blogs on the web at close to 60 million. Blogs come in a variety of forms, some blogs focus on a particular subject matter or issue while others are more personal. Many researchers are establishing knowledge logs or k-logs as a way of sharing their research and ideas and establishing knowledge communities.

Prof. Klaus Rohde thinks that blogs have the potential to become valuable research tools particularly when it comes to cross disciplinary research. “ It gives me the opportunity to communicate my ideas to a wider public, with the possibility of getting feedback.” Prof. Rohde’s blog is dedicated to discussing various aspects of science, particularly ecology and evolution and exploring links to other fields of knowledge.

Blogs also allow people to form communities around common intersts. Judy Redman, Uniting Church chaplain, has set up the Uniting Church Chaplaincy News blog. “I’ve been enjoying reading a blog that a friend has set up while she’s studying overseas for 6 months and a number of other people I know use blogs for a range of things, so I thought I’d give it a go.”

“My main aim is to provide information about peace, justice and environmental sustainability from a Christian perspective, with a particular focus on activities that people can be involved with on campus”

ITD now provides staff and students with everything they need to set up their own blog. To set up a blog, or read other UNE-blogs, simply visit blog.une.edu.au. The blog editing interface WordPress Mu makes starting a blog simple. All you need is a UNE username and password. If you want to know more about how to get blogging contact ross.bennetts@une.edu.au.