Nonetheless. I recently learned that a not inconsiderable
number of readers receive GFTGU in an email format, which means they miss out
on the bells and whistles of the actual website. These include subscribing
options, lists of acronyms, good reads and pertinent websites, a handy search function, an archive, a constantly updating site
meter, and a poll application (remember the lightning bug question back in June?). No ads will pop up, because I refuse
to flog anything.
Tim gave our friend Chuck extensive instructions in an
email. Apparently, Chuck doesn’t speak Klingon either. So for all of us hapless
old farts, here’s the drill in pictures. (At last! A use for those
early-childhood education classes I took 400 years ago!)
How does one get to the blog website?
Type gardeningfromthegroundup.blogspot.com—all one word,
no spaces—in your browser’s search bar. Click “Search.” We use Google, so it
looks like this on my computer:
The computer will then display a page of clickable “Gardening from the Ground Up” options, like this:
Click on one that looks promising. My sophisticated method
is to start at the top. Anything that says “Blog archive” or lists a specific
title in the text will get you here:
Ooooh! you purr.
The left side of the site is the post. If you click on
the pictures, they enlarge. If you click on highlighted text, it will take you
to the website I’ve been talking about. On the right side are the bells and
whistles mentioned above.
Directly
below the title picture is the site meter, steadily counting hits. Under that
is the SUBSCRIBE
NOW: FEED ICON in black print, followed by an orange icon and Subscribe in a Reader in green
print, just above a “Blotanical” tag. (Blotanical is a gardening-blog clearinghouse
site I signed up for at Tim’s behest. I don’t really know why.) Ignore all that
stuff.
Under
Blotanical, however, are the magic words SUBSCRIBE VIA EMAIL in black, followed by Subscribe to Gardening From the Ground
Up by Email. You’ll want to click on the green words, which will take
you to this page:
Type in your
email address and decode the magic symbol, then click on “Complete Subscription
Request.” Bob’s your uncle, you’re in!
Ahhhh! you murmur.
The very next
time I enter a post, you’ll get an email that will look something like this:
Here's what I get from the blog Gardening Gone Wild. I just click on the grey title, and the site pops up. Easy peasy, right?
If you
continue scrolling down the right side of the GFTGU site, you’ll pass ACRONYMS
EXPLAINED, GOOD READS, and LINKS TO SOURCES AND SITES before
getting to the next batch of interesting stuff, which looks like this:
SEARCH THIS BLOG is for finding specific topics by using keywords. For instance, if
you want to find the post that shows how to plant bulbs without digging, type “bulbs”
in the box and click “Search.” Go back up to the top of the left side of the
site, where every reference to bulbs will be listed in a clickable format. Pretty
neat, huh?
Under SEARCH THIS
BLOG is FOLLOWERS. If you’d like to become a follower, click on Join This Site in the blue
box. This is what comes up:
Click on
wherever you have your email account: mine is Google. A new screen’ll pop up:
Below the
followers is the BLOG ARCHIVE, a list of all posts to date, which might be of
use someday.
One last
explication, about making comments. At the very bottom of the post, after I
thank you for dropping by, you’ll see this:
Click on 0 Comments, and this is what
comes up:
Type in your
comment, and I promise to respond.
Oho! you say.
So that’s all
there is to it. Let me know if the pictorial approach helped (Chuck). And
thanks for dropping by.
Kathy
