Hi Guys,
I have removed two of our gang who are not interested in our fun. So here are things as they stand now. Let me know if you need me to change anything.
I have started the blog at http://www.coxfamilymemories.com This is just one possible way for us to collect our book data and memories.
I am not sure this is the best WordPress blog theme, but we will start with it. I may make some changes to make it easier to post and all that, but if I do change it, we won’t lose any information.
1 -Go to http://www.coxfamilymemories.com
2 -Go to the bottom of the page and click on login.
3 -That will take you to WordPress login page.
4 -If you have not registered, Go to the register link under the login box
5 -Put in the information of your name and email and password.
6 -You will get an email with your initial password, which you can copy and paste into the login WordPress box.
7 -Then whenever you want to login, you just go to the login link at the bottom of the page at http://www.coxfamilymemories.com and log in.
8 -This will take you to a dashboard of the wordpress back office which will allow you to change your password under profile – if you want.
9 -You will be able to see Write Manage and Comment tabs. You may just click on Write and you will see a posting box where you just write and hit the publish button
10-I put categories which you can select under your post and then click on the save or publish button over to right of your post. or…
11 Once you are logged in, you can look at the top of the page and see “View site”. Right click on that and choose “open in new tab”. That allows you to click on that tab and refresh to see what you wrote.
12 -Or you can go to http://www.coxfamilymemories.com and click on any page and there will be a comment box where you may write.
13 -If you think I should put more or different categories or pages, just let me know.
You can just comment on which ever page you want or tell me if you want another page added.
What I hope we can do is put all basic information about each person on their page. So, for instance, Martha will put in her full name, birthdate, where born with address if known, where she went to schools, graduated from, who she married, kids birth details, where and when etc. Then all memories and whatever she wants to put up there about all through her life, she can. I would hope to see all kinds of things from childhood up to present day.
Don’t get “befuddled” by any of it, just write and remember you can post and put in pictures and videos or whatever.
Anybody who doesn’t want to write on the blog, just send me your information and history and stories, etc in any way you want. I will put them on blog and then into the book.
I have a suggestion to make the deadline March 30, 2009. So everything will need to be done by then so I can try to get the book done.
If you have not discovered this great tool which allows you to save any passwords and find them so easily, I suggest you go to http://www.roboform.com and download the free tool. There is no need to purchase anything. Download and install it and it puts a little green icon on your tool bar in the right lower corner of your computer desktop.
I have used this for years and can’t imagine not having it. You can put in every password and website you can think of and then just click on that little icon and click on logins and see your list.
If anyone has access to your computer you can put a password lock, but you have to remember that one lock word. Anyway, there are video tutorials on the website if you need extra help.
Well, I must get some dinner on the table.
Hope all of you are enjoying the Holiday preparations.
I had fun with Pat and his Mother decorating our tree (see Shirley, I got it done even though we missed having your help this year) J
Much Love,
Myrtle