Easiest Way To Create A Blog

I want to share with you, the easiest way to creating a blog.

Just follow the steps below carefully:

Go to http://www.blogger.com

If you have a Gmail account, enter your Gmail address and password, then click the “Sign in” button on the page, you will be logged into the Blogger dashboard.

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If you do not have a Google account, click on the “Sign Up” button.

 

You will see a page where you will create a Google account which you will use for your blog and other Google services.

Fill the signup form accordingly

If you successfully Signing-up a new Google account, you will be logged into the Blogger dashboard.

Click on the “New Blog” button.

After clicking on “New Blog”, it will take you to a page where you will, enter your
Title,Address,Choosing a Template,Create

Title-This will be seen at the top of your blog and should be relevant to what you plan to be posting on the blog.

Address-This is link people will use in getting to your blogsite, Keep your address similar to your title.

Template-choose any template you like. It doesn’t really matter which template you choose, you can always change it at a later date.

Once you have chosen your template, then you can click on the “Create" button.

After you've click on “Create” button, you should see a notification that your blog has

been created successfully.

Your Blog is now created, Click on “Start Posting.

After clicking “Start Posting”, you will see the “Post Editor”

Enter the title of your post (this is what your post will be about) and enter the content of your post as seen in the picture above. You can edit whatever you type there at anytime.

Take note of the “Preview” button, the “Publish” button and the “Save” button.

The “publish” button publishes your post to the web.

The “Preview” button enables you to preview what your blog post will look like once published.

The “Save Now” button saves your composed post as draft.

Once you are through writing your post, click on the “Publish” button.

HOW TO INSERT A LINK  

To enter links in your post, hi-light the text you want to use as a link (e.g "naijaublog"), click "LINK"and enter the url you wish to link the text to. If you click the "open this in a  

new window" box, the link will open in another window when anyone clicks on

it when reading your article.

HOW TO CHANGE THE SIZE,FONT AND COLOUR

You can change the font size, font style, font colour and also underline your

text, make your text bold or in italics by using the icons available on the top

middle of your post editor.

HOW TO ADD IMAGE TO YOUR POST

To add image, click on the image icon, there are different options of adding image to your post. Click the "Choose Files" button to select pictures from your computer. Then, click "Add Selected".

Click on "Publish" tab at the top of the post editor once you're done.

HOW TO CUSTOMIZE YOUR POST

You can always change the look of your blog anytime you want. You will have to understand how to use the features of Blogger dashboard for you to be able to do this. To get started, click on “Layout” on the left menu. Here, you can add, remove, edit gadgets on your blog. More so, you can click

and drag to rearrange gadgets. To change columns and widths, use the “Template Designer” accessible if you click on “Template” on the left menu.

You should master the parts of the Blogger template.

The “Header” is the uppermost part of the blogger template. The blog title, description, logo, Navigation links always go into this section of the template.

The “Sidebar” is located by the side of the “Blog Posts”. Some blogs have only one sidebar while some have more than one. A sidebar can be located either on the right hand side or the left hand side.

The “Footer” lies underneath the blog posts.

You can add series of things to any part of the template wherever you see the “Add a gadget” link.

The gadget you will need mostly is the “HTML/Javascript” gadget. Whenever you copy any code from any website, (eg affiliate code) you can always copy and paste in the gadget and the result will be displayed right there on your blog.

HOW TO CREATE A NAVIGATION TAB

Blogger “Pages” (is different from “Blog Posts”) lets you easily publish static information on stand-alone pages. For example, you can create an About page that discusses the main aim or evolution of your blog, or a Contact page that provides information on how to reach you.

Once your page is published, you can link to it from the Pages gadget. The Pages gadget lets you add links to your pages as tabs at the top of your blog, or as links in your blog's sidebar, also known as navigation tabs.

You can use the "New Page" tab to create a new Blogger Page and a tab that links to any web address.

  

Thank you.