Designing a Blog

Creating and Designing a BLOG

Website:   www.blogger.com

    • First you will need a google email address (you can use your hotmail or gmail)
    • Click " get started"
    • Enter your already existing email address and follow instructions

Designing you Blog

    • On the right had top corner of the page click on "design"
  The tabs on the top left will read- Posting, Comments, Settings, Design, Monetize, Stats and then View Blog
  - We will go over what each of them all briefly

  1.   Posting- This is where you control the posts that are displayed on your blog
  - Each symbol controls different things with your designing
  font- style, T- Size of font, b-bold, i- italicize, T with colors- color of font, link- linking to different website, paragraph alignment, numbering bullets and quotes, abc check- spell check, picture of mountain- insert pictures, film strip- movies
  2.   Comments- to be able to view comments that have been left on your posts
  3. Settings- you are able to control different settings that you want to apply to your blog.
  4. Design- How your blog looks when others view it.
  - Header- what the top of your blog says, add a gaget- you can display many things such as: blog stats, followers lists, blog lists, friends and family blogs, pictures slideshows, logo's etc.   You can also change the background of your blog in this feature.
  - (This is something that you will want to play with when you get more familiar with everything on the site.)
  5. Monetize- You can set up the style that you want your sidebars and posts to be set as.
  6. Stats- never used before
  7. View Blog- Takes you directly to your blog so that you can see what others can see when looking at your blog.

  Posting
  New Post- the location you create your new posts
  Edit Posts-   This shows a list of all of the recent posts that have been displayed.   You can change the order of the posts by clicking on the little box next to the post... [continues]

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