If you are a client of Satori Web Design and do not already have your free blog, but would like to get one, click here.

Updating a blog can be a pain, it requires going online all the time, using the WYSIWYG text editor and, in general, making adjustments. Well, here’s a new way to handle this. Post from your desktop. What a novel concept! Use software that you’re familiar with, or at least are only mildly annoyed by to reduce the stress in your life. If you’ve signed up for a blog through Satori Web Design, LLC, you can follow these instructions to set up blogging from your desktop.

1) Go to your blog admin site and copy the URL (the address of the blog. This will be http://MYBLOGNAME.satoriwebdesign.com/blogs/ . Replace MYBLOGNAME with the name of the folder where your blog is located. Be sure to use lowercase letters, not uppercase (as we’ve done here to make the folder name more obvious).

2) Go into Site Admin in your blog, click on “Settings” (this should put you on General Settings)

3) Click on “Writing” (This should put you on Writing Settings)

4) At the bottom of the page, check the checkbox to enable XML-RPC

5) Download a “web log client” (a program that makes publishing a blog possible). We’d suggest either BlogDesk (http://www.blogdesk.org/en/download.htm) or Post2Blog (http://bytescout.com/post2blog.html). You can try them both or either, since both are free.

6) Install your web log client by following the instructions. Check the email that you received when your blog was created for your blog ID and any other necessary information.

7) Happy blogging!

You must be a registered user in order to create a new blog. If you are a member of a club that uses our ContentManager product for its club website, or if you are a client of Satori Web Design, LLC, you are eligible for a free blog.

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We provide free blogs for our clients. For Kiwanis clubs, this means that each of your members may have his/her own blog.

Registering a blog is simple, just look for the “Register for a Free Blog” button in the Members Only Area. Once you’ve registered, our system will automatically send you a welcome email. The welcome email will provide you with a link to your blog’s Site Administration.

To complete your registration, do the following:

1. Click on the link in the email
2. Enter your user name and password that you use to access the Members Only Area
3. Click on the “Visit Site” button, which is located next to the blog title