CONTENTS

Using The Google Toolbar

Using the Blogger Right Click Script

Using the Blogger Web Interface

USING THE BLOGGER TOOLBAR

The Google Toolbar (Ver 2.0 and above) integrates the Blogger button on the Google Toolbar which allows anyone to post content instantly as one comes across them. The Toolbar can be downloaded for free at www.toolbar.google.com .

For example see image on right. This article [from Health and Informatics Review Online] was browsed using Internet Explorer.If the editor feels the link should be share with others through the Virtual Journal of International health, he just need to click on the Blogger Button on the Toolbar.

Now the blogger script is activated and a pop up window comes up with options to login (if you still have not) and post the content.[See Figure ]. You must have noticed that the window is something like a form with spaces to fill in [Blogger automatically fills in the Title and URL when the script is activated from a specific page.]

[Please note that the same window can be triggered by right clicking and using the Blog option described below]

Now here, make sure the title corresponds to the title of the manuscript [By default, the script auto fills this space with the title of the page, which may not correspond to the title of the manuscript. In the figure below, you must have noticed that the title added by default is the title of the website and not the manuscript. Please make sure you edit this.

The next field is obviously the URL field. By default, this is auto filled by the URL from which the Blogger script was activated.

Now it is probably time to edit the body of the post. The first line of the body should be the citation information of the manuscript.(You should delete the text added to this field by default).If the content is copyrighted(means the content is only free to access and cannot be reproduced freely), please make sure you leave the field blank. If the content is available under an Open Access License (means you are free to reproduce the content without any restrictions), you may post the abstract and not the full text of the paper.

Please feel free to go through the already uploaded posts at www.virtualmedonline.com/vj/blogger.html

So now your editing is almost over. You may go through the text and look through once again to see everything is right and there are no obvious spelling mistakes.Now it is probably time to post it to the website. To do it simply click on the POST and PUBLISH button. The content is automatically uploaded and you will receive a thank you page with options to edit the post or quit.

USING THE BLOGGER TRIGGER SCRIPT

The Blogger trigger script is a tiny script which can be downloaded and gets attached to your menu on clicking the right mouse button. [See fig]. Now clicking on the 'Blog This' Option on the page you want to post, the pop up window is automatically triggered as above. Editing rules apply as above.

USING THE WEB-BASED INTERFACE

The Web-Based interface is for those who are on the move or are not very comfortable with the Google Toolbar [This may be also because there is no Google toolbar for Netscape Navigator and other browsers] or the Trigger script. But the web based interface is perhaps the best you can afford to have- given its functionality and ease of use.

The Blogger Web based interface can be accessed at www.blogger.com . The homepage contains fields to login using your unique username and password.[See Fig].

After Successfully logging in, you will be presented with a posting cum editing interface/control panel. The editing interface [the one above] looks similar to the interface on the editing window elaborated above and editing rules apply universally.

The lower pane also contains recent posts, with an EDIT link alongside each post. If you feel some significant error has creeped into one of your earlier posts, you are free to edit it. You may also edit others' posts, but this is strongly discouraged unless there is some significant error. You may alternately point out the error to the Admin Editor -Dr.Vinod Scaria at vinodscaria@yahoo.co.in .