{"id":377,"date":"2013-02-16T09:21:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-16T15:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/making-some-more-changes-around-here\/"},"modified":"2013-07-22T18:01:45","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T23:01:45","slug":"making-some-more-changes-around-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/making-some-more-changes-around-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Some More Changes Around Here"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve been doing the Surname Saturday<\/a> theme for six weeks now and already I\u2019m changing things up.\u00a0 You may have noticed that the post from earlier today was a little different and that\u2019s because I had a brilliant idea!<\/p>\n

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\"Scribd\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The one thing that was bothering me while working on these posts was that as research continues, the information published becomes outdated or incorrect.\u00a0 Instead of editing the post or republishing it, I decided that I am going to use Scribd<\/a>.\u00a0 The blog posts will continue, but instead of the text being part of the actual post, the Scribd document will be embedded in its place.<\/p>\n

By using Scribd, I can create a document using Word, which I have more control over than the blog post (I just don\u2019t do heavy-duty coding anymore, and honestly, it gives me a headache), and I have more real estate to work with.\u00a0 When I\u2019m done with the Word document, I simply create a PDF version and upload it to Scribd (you do not have to convert the Word document to a PDF, you can simply upload the Word file to Scribd\u2014I just choose to make it a PDF file).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Written In Post<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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Written In Word<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\"before\"<\/td>\n\"after\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Not only do I have more control over the layout and design, I can update the Word document at anytime, even over a period of time.\u00a0 And when I feel there are significant changes, I can create a new PDF and upload a new version<\/em> of the document to Scribd.\u00a0 Instead of adding a new document to Scribd, and either keeping or deleting the original, I just go to the original and put the new version \u201cover\u201d it.\u00a0 This way, I don\u2019t have to fill in the title, description, type, etc. all over again, AND, the original link remains in tact.\u00a0 So if you linked to it or embedded it in a blog post or web page, no changes need to be made to those links or embeds and the newest version will be the one that is displayed.<\/p>\n

Hopefully I\u2019ll find some time to update the first five Surname Saturday posts using Scribd, but moving forward, this is how I will be doing them.\u00a0 In fact, I think I may be using this approach with other posts where frequent updates may be necessary in the future, but we\u2019ll just have to see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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