How to post to the blog: Cost in the way of a cure for hepatitis C

Go to http://roseandcd.blogspot.ca/ and sign in.. (you will see something on the top right hand ).. Once signed in, you will see on the top right hand  "New Post".. Click on that.. and the post window opens.

You will see on the left  a compose  and an html button..  Click on compose


 In another browser window

Find a news item that you want to use

I found this one at http://citizensvoice.com/news/cost-in-the-way-of-a-cure-for-hepatitis-c-1.1887541

So.  I then copied the title and pasted it in the title above (Post)

Then on the right hand side under Search Description paste the title again.


Now.. Select no more that 3 paragraphs of pertinent info from the article and copy it to your clipboard

Paste it into Notepad and then copy it from Notepad to your blog post   This is to strip out any code.. When you get good at this you will be able to identify the weird code in the "html" window and work there.

Okay: here the pasted paragraphs.



Dee’s liver is scarred, but just a bit too healthy for her insurance to foot the bill for the new medications that cure hepatitis C more than 90 percent of the time.

The Butler County resident, who suspects she got the virus getting a tattoo, was recently told by her doctor to come back in a year.

John, a retired small-business owner from Washington County who was given blood in the early 1990s, was also denied the antivirals. Now, as he watches a friend grow weak from liver cancer, he fears he’s glimpsing his future.



They look okay but to check if the paragraphs are really going to work you need to make sure (in html window) that there is this code between the paragraphs  <br /> <br /> 

If these are missing then the paragraphs won't work.

There is another way to do this.. Save and publish the post and then check it.. If the spacing is wonky it only shows up AFTER you publish it.. (great..eh??)     In which case you need to edit the post (you will see a Pencil at the bottom of the published post if you are logged in ).. You click on the pencil.

Then you can either try to work in the "Compose Window" and simply hit return twice to put paragraph returns in where you know they should go (this does NOT always work), or you can go to the html window and insert the <br /> <br />   there..  <br /> <br />  only "works" in the html window.  If you put it in the main body of text in the Compose window it only functions as text and not code.

Having made it this far

You now put in

Read more...

You then select the Read more... and at the top select the "I" to italicize it.  You then go to the article you are referencing and grab the link  http://citizensvoice.com/news/cost-in-the-way-of-a-cure-for-hepatitis-c-1.1887541

Now select Read more and at the top of the compose window you will see a "Link" icon..  Click on that

Past the link there and select open in new window and okay

Read more...

Now on the top right you will see Post Settings.. Click on labels and start to enter the tags.. This is an auto complete so there will be suggestions.. This post would need, Personal Stories, cost of treatment, disease progression.

Then click Publish

Then check your work

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