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If you’re logged in, there should be a My Blog link at the bottom of every page.

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Click the Edit Blog icon (a wrench and screwdriver) at the top right of your blog page. (This Edit icon is only available on your blog page, not on your storefront.) This takes you to the Edit Blog Details page. Enter the name for your blog in the Title field and click SAVE.

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Blogs are part of the storefront features on Lulu. To customize the look of your blog, you will need to customize the look of your storefront.

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Click the Post icon (a pencil and paper) at the top right of your blog page. Create your entry and click the POST button.

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1. Use clear and easy to understand titles
2. Notify services that track updated blogs (like ping-o-matic)
3. Get other people you know to link to your blog
4. Link to other blogs and web pages
5. Purchase a paid placement from the search engine

See also: Blogs as a Marketing Tool.

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Avatars are currently part of storefront images. Your avatar will be displayed next to your name in all of your blog posts and Lulu seach results.

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p>Old Storefronts (Before 13.0 Release / July 2006)

Click the Edit storefront & profile link in the left column under the COMMUNITY tab to go to the Storefront Editor.

• In the Storefront Editor, click the IMAGE/AVATAR tab.
  
• Click the Browse button in the Avatar section.
  
• Browse your PC for the image you would like to use as your avatar.
  
• Click the Upload Image button.

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p>New Storefronts (After 13.0 Release / July 2006)

When editing your storefront, add the "My Contact Info" Block to your page. Then click "Edit" at the top of the box. Your current avatar, if you have one, will then be shown along with the option to change it. To change it, click "Browse" button and select the image on your computer that you wish to use as your avatar. Then click the Upload button. Your new avatar will then be shown.

You can also display other images using the Image block and hosting your images elsewhere. Here are some free image hosting services:

• Flickr
  
• Photobucket
  
• TinyPic

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Currently there is no way to download your Lulu blog.

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To find someone else's Lulu blog, go to his or her storefront by clicking on his or her name in the forums or on a product detail page. Note: some people may choose not to have a blog on their storefront.

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Follow these steps to change the number of posts shown on your Blog.

1. From your My Account area in your My Lulu tab, click the View/Edit Blog link in the left column.
2. In the Blog page, click the Edit Blog icon (a wrench and screwdriver at the top right of your blog page This Edit icon is only available on your blog page, not on your storefront.) The Edit Blog Details page displays.
3. Provide the number of posts you want to show on each of your blog pages in the Number of posts to show box.
4. Click the Save button.

Follow these steps to change the number of post headers shown on your Storefront (the Lulu Blog Feed).

1. From your My Account area in your My Lulu tab, click the My Storefront link in the left navigation column.
2. In the My Storefront page, click the Customize Storefront link in the upper right corner. The Storefront Editor displays.
3. Click the Edit button in the Lulu Blog Feed element, which displays at the top of the area you set to display your blog titles.
4. Select the number of entries to display.

Note: you must have the Lulu Blog Feed area activated in your storefront before you may adjust the number of blog subjects displayed.

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Currently it is not possible to import blog posts from another site onto Lulu blogs.

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You may choose to add your blog to your Lulu storefront where it can be seen by the public. Your blog may also be viewed anywhere someone has used RSS to feed your blog.

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Comments are notes that other bloggers or Lulu users have left on your blog entries.

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RSS stands for "Rich Site Summary," but some people refer to it as Real Simple Syndication. It is essentially an XML-based format for syndicating content between sites. In layman's terms, that means someone can get a feed of your blog posts to their site, and whenever you update your blog on Lulu, it will also update on their site. The RSS file is on the Lulu server, and the RSS reader (Bloglines, LJ, etc.) grabs that file, parses it, and displays the contents for you to read. The RSS file is written in XML, so it's easy to parse and usually contains the title, body and date for a blog post.

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Trackback is a way that a linking web page notifies another web page that it added a linked to the second page.

With a trackback, you send a notification (called a "ping") to a website that you have linked to on your blog. If the website that you pinged supports trackbacks, then the website that you linked automatically updates to include a link back to your post. To use send trackback notifications, enter the URLs to which you linked in your post into the Trackbacks section of the Edit Blog Post page.

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