How to Use This Blog

Greetings CONSD servant-leaders!

Here are the basic pointers for navigating this blog on a computer (see below for smart phone navigation): It's mostly: pointing, scrolling, and clicking

First of all, when you click on the blog address or URL, the blog always features the most recently written (or most recently edited) post at the top of the page. To read previous posts, you can either scroll down to read them or click on the links at the top five tabs or on the dated archive on right-hand side of the blog page. (The print is small there on the right side, but I'm unable to make it larger. Sorry!)

When you point and click on the title of the blog itself (Be Still and Know, at the very top of the page), you are in a mode that allows you to scroll down to view a few of the recently written posts. The top post will still, always, be the most recently written or edited one. 

When you point and click on the title of a specific blog post (like this one's title, "How to Use This Blog,"), then you will see only that specific post on the page. But you can still go to the right side of the blog to click on the dated archive to look at previous posts, listed by title under the month they were posted.

When you are emailed a link to a specific post, the page you are sent to will show just that single post. But you can also click on Be Still and Know or the "Home" tab at the top of the blog to be taken to the mode that lets you scroll down to previous posts. And you also always go to the tabs at the top or the archive on the right side to navigate quickly to a previous blog post.

More on those five "tabs" underneath Be Still and Know: "Home," "Calendar," and so forth. These just provide quick access to frequently-sought items. "Home" takes you to the home page for the blog itself. The "Calendar" tab takes you to the "CONSD Calendar for 20XX" post that I first added on January 19, 2020 (so you don't need to go looking for it in the archive on the right side). Subsequent years will include the calendar for that particular year.

Within some posts, such as  Resources and Lectio Archive, there are several "clickable" links (aka hyperlinks). You see them as words that are a different color (red, in this blog) from the rest of the text. When you move your cursor (mouse pointer) to them and hover there, you will be able to click on the highlighted word. It will take ("link") you to a different post, a website, an article, etc. 

You are also welcome to comment or ask questions by going to the "Comment/Post a Comment" section at the bottom of a blog post. If comments have been posted, it will show how many, and you click on the word "comment" to see them). You might be asked a question to prove you are not a robot, and if you are a Gmail user you might be asked for a password (as Blogger is also a Google service). But I have set it to allow anyone to comment. If you comment in Anonymous mode, please sign your name so I can know who you are. I will frequently monitor the comments section to ensure no inappropriate material is posted. This is a publicly viewable blog, although it is not likely to be frequented by much of the public. 

If there is something you would like to share as a blog post, you will first need to email it to the Admin, me (Mary Williams). I can then format it and post it.

To navigate the blog on a smartphone, you just scroll and tap. Tap on the title of a blogpost to read the full post. Tap on the title of the blog (or on the "Home" button on the bottom or top of the blog) to see a scrollable list of posts. You won't see an archive of posts on the right side; instead you scroll down to see the posts, which are listed in order from most recent to least recent.

Feel free to ask questions in the comment section, and I will do my best to address them.

Blessings and Blogfully yours,
Mary W.