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Uploading a Lesson to a Blog |
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Once you have created a Web Export account for your blog in Preferences you can post any of your lessons using the Blog/Web export feature. Export Lesson to Blog/Web
If you have a lesson open click on the Export button and select Blog/Web. Alternatively you can use the File -> Export Lesson -> Blog/Web menu. Note that you can also export a lesson from the Lesson Library lesson list by using the File menu or by right-clicking on the lesson and selecting Export -> Blog/Web from the contextual menu. Configure Export to Blog/Web Dialog
Before uploading the lesson to your blog for the first time you can configure a couple of options. You begin by selecting the Account you would like to upload the lesson to (1). This is an account that you have created in the Web Export preference pane. Next you configure some of the properties of the lesson. If your blog server supports multiple blogs you can specify which blog to upload to lesson to (2). You can also specify a category for the lesson (3) as well as whether or not to post the lesson as a draft (4). Once you have configured the lesson properties for the blog post you can choose a template (5). The template determines the formatting that will be used to display the lesson in your blog. Once you are done configuring the various options click the Upload button to begin uploading the lesson. 
A progress dialog will appear while the lesson text and images are uploaded. 
If all goes well then this dialog will appear. Use the Copy URL to Clipboard button if you would like to email the url to your lesson to somebody. Updating a Lesson on Your Blog
When you export a lesson to a blog ScreenSteps remembers the fact that you did so. If you attempt to export the lesson to the same blog again the Export to Blog/Web dialog will appear slightly different. You can still specify whether or not to post as a draft (1) and which template to use (2) but you cannot change the category. Clicking the Upload Again (3) button will replace the existing blog post. |
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Comments (5)
Debbie T September 22, 2008 17:48
Hello!
When I upload my files to my blog, I noticed that extra image files are also uploaded.
Is there a way around this, as it is wasting a lot of space, and also confusing to find the true files that belong to the lesson. I would probably be wanting to delete all unnecessary image files, but again, that wastes time as well.
Love the program so far! thanks
Trevor DeVore September 23, 2008 12:54
The default template for Blog export will export two images if a step has an image that is larger than the maximum allowable width/height for the template. The image shown in the blog post is a scaled down version. The other image is the full-size version that you can see if you click on the image in the blog post. Is it possible that this is what you are seeing?
If you don't ScreenSteps to add a zoomed image you can manually edit the template. You can learn more about editing templates in the Customizing HTML Templates in ScreenSteps manual. Take a look at the Using Image Zoom in Templates lesson in particular.
debbie T September 23, 2008 15:48
I am just looking at the image files more closely, and it is strange. I have three sets for every image file. There is somehow a square 150x150 version, which is cropping the original. I am not sure what that is....and the other is a 300 x ### photo. That I assume is the scaled down version. The one that is used on my web blog is the original.
Both scaled down versions are unnecessary, from what it looks like, but I will look into it closer.
Let me ask one more question.
So if I set no limits, and just let it display an image @ 100%, I should only have one upload for each image, right?
And at that point, I should be able to use an external editor to re-size? It would still only be one image uploaded? I hope.
I will do some experimenting tonight.
I am a tidy web designer, and I hate anything extra.
Debbie T September 23, 2008 19:38
Oh yay!! I am so happy. I figured out my problem!
No matter what I did, I kept finding extra uploads for the image files. I couldn't figure out why!
It was my Wordpress settings, not my Screensteps settings. Once I changed my image thumbnail and medium settings (in WP) to 500x500, my uploads were down to only one image file!!! whoo-hoooo!
Trevor DeVore September 24, 2008 06:00
Glad to hear you figured it out.
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