I will try and make this little tutorial as simple & painless as possible.  It may be alot to take in at first but I promise all these little details will make your blog attractive & functional.  If you have any questions about any of these steps…just leave me a comment and I will respond to your question here so that it will be easy to come back and refer to.

Let’s get started!

Featured Gallery
One of my favorite parts of this blog is the Featured Gallery.  The Featured Gallery is basically a large rectangle image, a title & an excerpt of a post…actually it’s a series of these elements, hence the word Gallery!

To create posts that will show up in the Featured Gallery first you will need an image that is exactly 590 pixels x 240 pixels.  To create a Featured Gallery post, you will go to Write New Post page.

You will see in the image above that you will need to upload an image for this post.  You will do so by clicking on a little box located in the toolbar right above the area that you type your post.  Here are images to walk you through the process of uploading your Featured Gallery image.

Once you have located the file on your computer and selected it, it will go through a process called Crunching.  Then you will see the following screen.

Keep in mind that you only need to do the things that are highlighted with my notations in blue.  For the Featured Gallery image, do not select Insert into Post.

More to come later…