Tech Tip

This week I made a mistake while trying to edit my storybook. I accidentally made one of my stories a subpage, which meant that no one could find it! While I'm still unsure of how I did that in post-editing, I can help share how to make sure that doesn't happen!

If you're new to google sites, and you want to add a new story AND have it appear visibly underneath previous posts, do this...

Go to the top right, and you'll see a little gray icon that says "Create page"
Click on that, and it will take you to a new page where you can title the new post.
When it asks to put a location, you're going to want to click PUT PAGE AT TOP LEVEL.
To me, you'd think that would mean it would put the post above the first one. But it actually formats the post underneath the oldest. If you click PUT PAGE UNDER _______ it will create a subpage for it, unable to be easily viewed upon navigation.

Tech Tip (for absolute dummiez)

I was commenting on someone's blog and I clicked "sign out" instead of "publish." My whole body went hot because I haven't signed out of this class ever! So I quickly went to sign in, and then I noticed I have SIX google accounts! I spent a few minutes going through accounts and removing those that I never use. Then when I went to log in... I seriously couldn't figure out my password! I couldn't believe it. It ended up being a lower case "c" giving me problems. I successfully logged back in, and then I set the account to ALWAYS REMEMBER ME.

I guess this isn't so much as a tip, but more of a cautionary tale.

Tip- don't be a dummy, remember to save your log in! A text bubble should appear when you sign in, and it'll directly ask you if you would like to have the site remember your log in.

And pay attention to what you're clicking!
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Tech Tip! Embedded videos.

Wow, who would have thought I'd have a tech tip?! Technology is something I strive to get better with, because HTML is not my strength.

Here's a tip for those working on a storybook-

I wanted to add embed a youtube video in my story. I figured easy enough, right? I copied the embed link from youtube and paste it in the text box.

Of course, that doesn't work.

So, you'll have to go to the HTML button. The next text box will pop up and there will be the text, followed by the HTML of other codes, like a break in a paragraph. Simply find the area where you'd like your video to pop up, and add the embed link there.

And there you go! Easy and simple!