• Introduction
• What is Live Blog?
• Using Live Blog
• The Live Blog interface
• Creating a Live Blog
• Publishing your Live Blog
• Creating content and using sources
• Using the timeline
• Configuring your live blog
• Users and collaborators
• Managing feeds
• Media archive
• Appendix
• Getting help
• About this manual

Creating a live blog

 To create a live blog, click on Live Blogs in the menu, and then on Create live blog.

You will be prompted to choose a Language and title for your new live blog, and to provide a brief description.

Select 'default' as the type of blog, unless you or your system administrator have set up a custom blog type for your publication. (For information on setting up custom blog types, see the chapter Configuring your live blog).

Click the Save button, and your new live blog will appear, empty of content and ready for you to start using. If you change your mind about the title or description, you can change these simply by clicking on the relevant text in the right-hand pane and editing it.

You can also at this stage add an image to go along with your live blog's title and description. Click in the space for description text, and a formatting toolbar will appear.

Click on the image button, and a dialog box will pop up.

At the moment this dialog won't let you upload an image from your computer. You have to paste the link to an image already available somewhere on the Web into the URL box and press the Insert button.

Note that if you upload an image to accompany your live blog description, it is only seen in the journalist's interface, and not in the published live blog.

Tip: To gain a little more space for viewing items in the timeline, you can click on the Collapse link to the right of your live blog's title. The description of the live blog will then be hidden until you choose to click on Expand.