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SolarChargedDriving.Com is looking to build a dynamic and vibrant community of bloggers interested in writing and riffing about solar energy, EVs/PHEVs, the environment, and, of course, the revolutionary synergy between solar energy and EVs/PHEVs.

Please consider creating a blog and helping us grow SolarChargedDriving.Com and, more importantly, excitement about solar energy, environmentalism and the ways in which the solar and EV/PHEV synergy can help create a greener, cleaner world!

Creating a blog and starting to blog are easy.

For directions on how to do this, check out our “How to start a blog” entry under the Sample and Tutorial Blog.

Below is a step-by-step explanation of how to create your own SolarChargedDriving.Com blog. You may wish to copy and paste these into a Word or Notepad file and print them out before you start.

1. Click on the “Create an account” link in the “Community login” navigation bar at the top left of the page.
2. Fill out all the required fields on the “Registration” page: Name, Username,E-mail,  Password, Verify Password.
3. Click on the “Register” button.
4. Go to your e-mail account.
5. Click on the activation link in the e-mail that you have received from SolarChargedDriving.Com.
6. You will be taken to a page that says “Activation Complete”
7. Log in to SolarChargedDriving.Com using the “Community Login” Navigation bar.
8. You will be taken to the Sun Miles Community Club Pages.
9. Under the Sun Miles Club link at the top of the page, drag to the “Sun Miles Blogosphere” link.
10. You will be taken to the SolarChargedDriving.Com blogstream, which brings together all the blog entries from all the different blogs at SolarChargedDriving.Com.
11. Click on the “Create a new blog” link right above the first entry in the SolarChargedDriving.Com blogstream.
12. On the next page that appears, you can name your blog and give your blog a title.
13. Click on the “Create blog” button at the bottom of the page.
14. Click on the long URL that has your blog name at the end of it.
15. Click on the small  “Edit” link at the bottom of the “Hello world!” entry.
16. You will be taken to a WordPress dashboard in which you can edit that entry and create new entries.
17. If you are not familiar with how to use WordPress, please check out the set of links to video tutorials on WordPress posted under the “How to start your own blog: Part II” entry.
18. When you return to SolarChargedDriving to blog again after leaving, you must: a) log in using the Community login navigation bar; b) navigate to –>Sun Miles Club –> Sun Miles Blogosphere –>My blog dashboard (this will appear as the final drop down menu).
19. Start blogging again!

Below is a list of video tutorials on Wordpress available at Wordpress.tv.

• An overview of the Dashboard
• How do I write and publish a post in my blog?
• How do I save a draft?
• How can I add an About Me page?
• Widgets overview?
• How can I add a widget to my sidebar?
• How do I add a link to my sidebar?
• How can I edit the links on my sidebar?
• How do I add categories and tags to my posts?
• How can I add photos and videos to my blog?
• How can I add a YouTube Video to my post?
• How can I add or delete categories on my blog?