Blogging through Haynet is very easy and a valuable opportunity to broadcast your social equine views to the world. This way of publishing updates and encouraging participation in our equine community and a chance to let everyone know what you are doing with your horse and a great record for you to look back on! Whatever you use it for, we wanted to make sure that the new Haynet blogging tools wasn't just another feature – but a quality publishing product in itself.
To get going, simply click on the ‘New Blog Post’ link in the toolbar that runs across the top right hand side of this site.
1. Blog Types
Haynet lets you make standard text posts, photo posts or video posts. Each is formatted differently to display your content in the best possible way. Click here to learn how to add additional photos to your blog post.
2. Blog Title/URL
Don’t forget to give your blog post a title - let it stand out!
3. Content
This bit’s up to you! You are now free to write whatever your like - write your post using our editor – it’s easy to embed photos, links, videos or directly edit the source HTML.
4. Select Blog
You can have multiple blogs with different privacy settings – and you can choose which of them your post will be published to.
5. Post to Facebook/Twitter
If your account is connected to Facebook or Twitter, your followers can be alerted of your blog post when you tick the Facebook and Twitter icons at the bottom of the form.
Adding Additional Photos To Your Blog Post
You can add additional photos to your blog post but it can be a little more complicated but hopefully here we can show you how. This is something that we are trying to make easier with the web hosting, so hopefully in the not too distant future we can add more photos with ease!
At the moment using PHOTO BLOG you can only add one photo from your computers files to a blog post. In order to add additional photos to a post you need to click TEXT BLOG. Here in the toolbar you will see an image icon next to the size of font tab (Normal).
Click on to this and then an image properties box comes up. Here you need to add the URL code of your image.( If you are sratching your heads about URL codes we will speak about this later). So paste the code into the URL section and then the image will appear in the picture box on the right. You can adjust the height and width to its left to make it smaller or larger. You can also move it left or right in "Align" so it can be placed in your text blog post where you want it.
With this picture it has been aligned to the left so that you can type text beside it. To the right then you will then be able to type your text to the left (we hope this makes sense!)
So with the URL image code you can add as many pictures as you like to your blog post. Now we know some of you may not of heard of a URL image code.
Every photo that is on the internet, has a URL code. Click on any image on the internet and then right click the mouse on the image and you will see "COPY IMAGE URL" click this and then paste it into the URL section of the photo tab.
Now if you want to use more than one of your own images the only way is to upload your photos to a photo storage site like Flickr or Photobucket. It's also a good way to store your images on the internet incase you have a virus or problem with your hard drive of your computer. When your photos are stored in this way, you simply right click the image you want to use on your blog post and this gives you "COPY IMAGE URL" which is your images URL code. Simply cut and paste it into the image tab and then apply to your blog post.
If you have any further questions about this then please contact HAYNET ADMIN
