Switching to Beta

Hello all ... I hope this doesn't cause any more difficulty but I have switched to the updated beta version of blogger. It is very simple to do and you should all recieve the option to do so when you open your dashboard. Here is a helpful article about it. Hope all is well with you & yours!

Switching with team blogs and getting out of beta

Just before the weekend we added the final piece to the transition from old Blogger to the new Blogger in beta: members of team blogs can now switch to the new Blogger. This is the last step before we take the new Blogger out of beta.

Team blogs move when the blog’s original creator moves to the new Blogger. When that happens, team blog members will also have to move to the new Blogger in order to post. Team blog members don’t have to wait, though! If you move to the new Blogger, team blogs you didn’t create will still show up on your beta Dashboard. You’ll be able to post with them as before, though they won’t have the new features of the new Blogger. We wrote a help article to explain this all in a bit more depth.

At this point, the pieces are in place:

* The new Blogger is feature complete
* All new accounts are created on the new version
* Known issues on the new Blogger are few and getting fewer
* (Almost*) all users are able to move their blogs to the new Blogger


This all means that we’ll be removing the “beta” from the new Blogger very soon! At that time, we’ll begin the process of requiring that users of old Blogger move to new Blogger.

* = From time to time we may limit switching in order to keep old and new Blogger functioning smoothly. Also, users with particularly large blogs may not switch right now. This latter restriction will be gradually lifted.
— Pete [12/11/06 9:30 AM]

How to Log In (after you've signed up)

When you open the Blog, you go to the Blogger Icon at the top left hand side of the page, click on it and it should bring you to a page with "Sign in to Blogger." If you click that, a user-name and password window will pop up. If you put in the username and password you created when signing up it should take you to your Dashboard, where you can post, edit your profile, etc.

If you forgot your username and/or password - just put anything in and you will go to a window that says incorrect username and/or password. There you will find a link that says: "Forgot your password?" If you click this link, it will take you to a page where you can recover just your password (if you remember your username) or password and username, if you need both. For both you will just need to submit the email address you used when signing up.

Tip: If you check the "Remember Me " option before you sign in, you will automatically be taken to your Dashboard everytime you click on the Blogger Icon on the top left corner of the page. It makes it much easier to access the blog quickly and without any hassle.

Hope this helps!

Links to each other's work?

If any of you are interested in sending me links to your webpages, blogs, or other cyberspace places, I would be more than happy to list them in the links field.

It will be yet another way for us to familiarize each other with our work & our process.

I will go ahead and put one of my links in there to give you an idea and to set it up so there can be links for poets & links for artists.

Welcome

Here's the basic, bare-bones blogspot for Artworks & Poetwords.

Personally, I thought the meeting today went well ... and I truly enjoyed all the finger painting, even if I didn't meet my artist yet!

I am looking forward to the collaboration process and want to thank all of you who have worked so hard to make this possible!