Here are some new helps for those who visit my blog. 

Categories Section Added to Side Bar:

I am trying to make my site more easily navigatable based on why you are here. I have added a 'Categories' section in right side bar. If you are interested in E-Notebooking you can look down the list to the side for the categories section and click on 'Electronic Notebooking' to find only the entries about electronic notebooking. By the same token, there is a category for 'Family News' for those here that just want to know what's up in the Moore household these days. Like the looks of my blog page? Select 'Blog Builder' and you will find the chronicles of how I have modified my blog's tamplate and how you can do it too. Last, but not least, is the 'Musings' category (though by the time you read this blog I may have added more).

Now that I have a distinct category for e-notebooking, I will work to get some blog entries going to help others who are doing (or wanting to do) electronic notebooking in their homeschool.

'In-Progress' and 'Completed Notebooks' Added to Side Bar

The two new additions show electronic notebook topics that the kids have 'in-progress' and a list that shows the notebooks that are done. I have figured out how to link them for you, so just click and go to see the electronic notebooks, are at least images of them, that the kids have made. The link will take you to the notebook examples section of the Electronic Notebooking 101 course at www.virtualhomeschoolgroup.com. You may tour as a guest or register. the course is free.

How You Can Do This To

I am going to make the assumption that you have a bit of experience with working with the html of your template.

If you have none, click on the 'Blog Building' link under Categories in the right side bar. read through the entries from bottom to top. I started this blog with almost no html experience. As I learned, I posted how I did things. You can read the blog entries and learn too.

For the somewhat experienced set, here is a how to for adding a new section to the side bar in your blog.

O     Open the control panel for your blog and click on the 'edit template' button.

O     Always, always take the precaution of backing up your latest working html for your template. If you mess up, you can delete the messed up one and copy/paste the working one back in. All you have to do is open a wordprocessor to copy/paste all of the html in the window to.

O     You will need to browse through your templates html to get familiar with its parts. In my template, the html for the side bar is pretty much the bottom half of the code. I could tell because I could see the titles/text of the side bar parts that I already had. This will help me figure out where to add new code to get the final new section in the place that I want it to go.

O     Once you have decided on the best spot to add your new section, you are ready to add in your new section's header in html. Here is something about like what you will add:        

The black parts are pure html and will not show in the finished section of your blog. What will show is in red. You just need to replace the red text with what you want to actually be visible in your sidebar. In my example there are three items in the list. You can have more or less.

OK, ready to bump up one notch? Let's say that you want to make an item in your list a hyperlinked text. Here is what you will need.

Just as in the previous example, the red text is where you will add your own information.

That is it. Good luck!