Why this blog exists

This is a blog to test blog widgets and other layout features. Unless you host a blog yourself (i.e. purchase a domain name and hosting service) you cannot change the CSS, or stylesheets easily for these templates that WordPress.com supplies to its users.

Your instructor can login as an administrator to this blog and use the Dashboard to modify the Appearance, by changing the CSS stylesheet associated with this particular body of content.

Our class blog saicwired.org is an example of a blog that is privately hosted with its own domain name. It is hosted off campus at Anhosting, a local Chicago hosting company.

Hello SAICWIRED students!

This text you are reading is an example of a sample blog entry that uses free WordPress software to format everything using a pre-existing stylesheet (viewable in the Dashboard under the Appearance link) and a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) interface.  If your instructor is logged in and hits the “Edit” link you will see that this very text can be viewed as formatted (click Visual tab in Editor) or via HTML (HTML tab in Editor).

Our course site for SAIC Wired is available at saicwired.org.

About SAICWIRED

SAIC Wired is a series of courses developed at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago to promote digital literacy for art students.