We’ve expanded from just the main advice blog to offering our users a unique SC community experience.

In addition to the main blog, this year YSCC also features the public forum, community sub-blogs AND a social networking system for your league.

Let’s now talk about getting you your own YSCC blog… In 2010 Your SuperCoach Coach is giving its users the ability to create their own SuperCoach blog with a custom URL (yoursupercoachcoach.com/blog/username).

Your blog will come complete with full WordPress content management and the YSCC theme customized to help YOU make a better blog. In addition, users have the ability to utilize the 2 areas of advertising space so that they are rewarded monetarily for creating great content and driving traffic.

To encourage users to use their sub blogs, we offer some tutorial manuals that will teach you how to effectively run your SuperCoach blog.

Finally, we will be featuring content from the user blogs on the main sub-blog page as well as the main YSCC blog, granting our most active users some well-deserved exposure.

So, in summary, why start a YSCC sub-blog?

• It’s a great way to get involved writing about SuperCoach
• You’ll receive support & advice from Marcus if needed
• You’ll gain exposure for your writing you wouldn’t able to get anywhere else
• Blogs will be featured around YSCC on a regular basis rewarding members with exceptional content
• All blogs and blog posts will be listed on YSCC to further drive traffic to you
• You’ll be piggy-backing off YSCC’s hosting, that is, you’ll have the ability to be monetarily rewarded for creating great content WITHOUT having to overcome the cost ofhosting fees
• Marcus’ has set-up the WordPress backend for you, in other words, everything is set-up and ready to go for you

All that’s left for YOU to do is sign-up and write away!

I look forward to seeing some great content from our community in 2010.

1. How to change blog title and tag line
2. How to customize your sidebar
3. How to put in your own ads

(b) How to add content

1. How to create a new page
2. How to create a new post (the basics)
3. How to edit your post (advanced)
4. How to embed media and set post thumbnails

If you still have queries or concerns after reading this tutorial feel free to e-mail me at marcus@yoursupercoachcoach.com, submit a comment to this article or simply fill out the contact form located here: http://www.yoursupercoachcoach.com/main/contact-me/.

(a) How to customize your YSCC blog

a1. how to change blog title and tag line

1. Click the Settings tab.
2. Click General.
3. Change the blog title and tag line fields.
4. When you are ready, click Save Changes.

a2. how to customize your sidebar

1. Click the Appearance tab.
2. Click Widgets.
3. Drag selected widget from Available Widgets to one of the sidebars (each widget has a small description of what it does underneath it).
4. Change widget specific settings.
5. Click Save.

a3. how to put in your own ads

The YSCC user customized theme has 2 areas for you to insert ads into.

1. Click the Appearance tab.
2. Click Multichrome Options
3. Insert your banner code into the appropriate field (this space is ideal for a 300×250 banner).
4. Click Save Changes.
5. Look under the Appearance tab again for Widgets. Click on it.
6. Drag the text widget from Available Widgets to one of the sidebars.
7. Edit the text widget. Fill in the title field with: ‘Advert’ ONLY.
8. Insert your banner code into the content field (this space is ideal for a long vertical banner).
9. Click Save.

(b) How to add content

In WordPress, you can write either posts or pages. When you’re writing a regular blog entry, you write a post. Posts automatically appear in reverse chronological order on your blog’s home page. Pages, on the other hand, are for content such as “About Me,” “Contact Me,” etc. Pages live outside of the normal blog chronology, and are often used to present information about yourself or your site that is somehow timeless — information that is always applicable.

b1. how to create a new page

1. Click the Pages tab.
2. Click Add New.
3. Fill in the subject line, write your content.
4. When you are ready, click Publish.

b2. how to create a new post (the basics)

1. Click the Posts tab.
2. Click Add New.
3. Fill in the subject line, write your content, select or add a category for your post, add descriptive tags of your content.
4. When you are ready, click Publish.

b3. how to edit your post (advanced)

1. Alt-Shift-Z or clicking the kitchen sink icon will drop down a series of additional features to edit your content with (font, underline, text colour, etc).
2. You can drag the bottom right corner of your content box up/down to decrease/increase the size of the content box you’re working with.
3. Click the insert more tag icon (or Alt-Shift-T) at any point in the post and it breaks the post into “teaser” and content sections. On your blog’s home page you’ll see only the text before the break followed by a ‘continue reading’ hyperlink to the full article.

b4. how to insert images and set post thumbnails

1. Beneath the subject line you should see ‘Add media: (sun symbol)’. Click on the symbol.
2. Click Browse and find the image on your local computer. Note: it is recommended that you make your filename “server friendly.” Make sure the filename has no spaces, apostrophes, slashes or other non-alphanumeric characters (such as $, % and &). Rename the file before uploading if it does. To preserve readability, some people replace spaces with the underline character. For instance, My File Name.txt becomes My_File_Name.txt.
3. Select the image on your computer, just like you were navigating to and opening a file in a word-processing program, and click Open. The file will then be uploaded.
4. Now whatever image you have uploaded are sitting there on the Web server, waiting to be used.
5. Select the image you’ve just uploaded. Under Title type a short, plain-language descriptive title for the file.
6. If you want to insert the image into your post – select the alignment and size then click ‘insert into post’.
7. If you want to use the uploaded image as the post thumbnail simply click ‘use as thumbnail’