I just changed a setting in the blog so that you can register yourself and then write articles. Just in case there are “naughty” visitors to the site, you can only save your writing as a draft and then I have to approve it before it is published. To register, click in the lower right hand corner. Enter your name, user name you want and your e-mail. A password will be mailed to you soon after you submit your registration. Start writing right away by logging on. I will get notified when you write something that needs approval. As soon as I approve it, your writing will be on the website.
We’ll see if that works or if strangers abuse it. I want to give it a try.
I’ve just deleted the blogroll links and posted a number of blog links. Some of them may not be accessible because they are Blogspot. I think Dave Kee’s blog should be, and perhaps one of the other’s. Check them out and see if you can get to them. I hope so, but I know my own site was not available until I switched services.
Collette asked a great question in her comment: “What is a blogroll and what do these names have to do with Enping or ESL?” The anwer: NOTHING. This website is two days old. The software is developed by individuals who charge NOTHING for it. They placed their websites on the blogroll and I loaded it that way. A Blogroll is a list of blogsites that the owner of the blog keeps track of. I haven’t picked out any sites for the blogroll yet, but am going to do that soon. At that time, you will find links to some great ESL educators blogs. Until then…you will just have to wait.
I read a bit on the administrator side and found that I have set up the blog so that if you have had a post approved and you include your name and e-mail, your comments will be posted without me doing anything else. I can change it, but I think that you should be able to comment without my moderating. I did have another blog where robots found the site and posted advertisements for X-rated materials and I had to moderate. This blog is young and it will be awhile before robots find it. If they do, there are now some tools to guard against robot posing that I can set up. I hope I don’t have to.
I am still learning the program that runs this. As the moderator, I receive copies of all of your posts. Yesterday I approved the posts that I received via e-mail before they were posted. Today, I see that Victor has been able to post without my approval. I think that’s a good thing, but I have no idea how it happened! The point is that sometimes you may have to wait to see your post appear online because it is waiting for my approval. And, then maye other times, if you are lucky like Victor, you won’t! (I think when I approved him I must have approved him, and everyone who already posted, as a writer on the blog…but I am not sure!)