Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
Chapter 4
Using the Dashboard
In This Chapter
Getting to know the Dashboard menu
Creating new blogs
Searching for Help
Editing preferences
Logging in and out
Exploring the sidebar
Launching your site
With its plain blue background, simple buttons, and icon navigation, your Tumblr ac-
count has a lot of parts that look pretty similar from page to page. Thankfully, you can
use the Dashboard icons at the top of the screen to get to most of the places that you
need to go. After you create your initial Tumblr account, you use your Dashboard to cre-
ate new blogs, search for help, edit your account preferences, launch your site, and log in
to and out of your account from multiple computers and devices.
The other area you'll use quite often to navigate through your Tumblr site is the Dash-
board Sidebar, located conveniently on the right side of the page. The buttons on the
Sidebar are context specific to support the various options you select on the Dashboard.
Read on to find out more about the features on the Tumblr Dashboard and Sidebar.
Using the Dashboard Menu
Tumblr's Dashboard menu is located at the top of your screen and contains several icon
links to assist you with navigating through your account. You can tell you're in the right
place if the URL (after logging in) in your browser's address bar says
www.tumblr.com/
dashboard
(see Figure 4-1).
