Blogs at Penn State Community

First, make sure you have

1. Activated yor Personal Web space
2. Created a blog
3. Written and published an entry

What is the Blog URL?

The blog URL you share with your friends and colleagues is different from the one used to create your blog (http://blogs.psu.edu).

The URL of your published blog is structured as follows:

http://www.personal.psu.edu/<your Userid>/blogs/<URL Name>

For instance, if user xyz123 had a blog with the URL name “worknotes”, the URL would be

http://www.personal.psu.edu/xyz123/blogs/worknotes

The following instructions tell how to find your published blog URL from within http://blogs.psu.edu.

If you have just written an entry

1. After you have written an entry, cick the View Site button in the left menu.
2. The blog will open and show the URL on the Penn State personal server
3. If you do not see your blog or the blog entry make sure the Status menu is set to Published. See Troubleshooting Unpublished Entries for more details.

If you not logged in

1. Log on to http://blogs.psu.edu. You will see a list of blogs you have written.
2. To see your live blog, click the View Site link to the right of the blog.
   Note: you can also enter the blog, then click
   Click View Site on the bottom of the left menu.
3. The blog will open and show the URL on the Penn State personal server
4. If you do not see your blog or the blog entry make sure the Status menu is set to Published. See Troubleshooting Unpublished Entries for more details.