Tuesday, December 25, 2012

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How to Start a Blog on Blogger - Beginner's Guide

Posted On - Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Blogging has become the best choice around the world to earn quick and easy money. And daily thousands of people around the world start their Blogs. Today we will explain you step by step, how to start a new Blog on blogger.com. Blogger is an online service owned by Google, and is the best platform to begin blogging.

Most of you who already have Blogs must be thinking that what a waste of time this article is. But trust me, there are a lot of people out there who wish to start their Blogs, but need guidance. So this article is to help the beginners to successfully start a Blog in an hour.

Before starting up, let us study about a few things related to Blogging. In my words, a Blog is actually a website, where articles are posted related to the area of its functioning. You can start a Blog, based on any anything, its entirely your choice. 
You can start a Technology Blog, a Photography Blog, a blog for Web Designing Tutorials, Cookery Blog, Entertainment Blog etc. Also, some of you might be thinking, that who host my Blog, well if you start your Blog using blogger.com, you blog will be hosted by Google, and it is absolutely free. Now lets do it, simply follow the below mentioned steps.

Step 1 - Navigate to Blogger.com and Sign in

Visit Blogger.com and sign in using your Google Account.

Step 2 - Click on New Blog to start

As you don't have a Blog already you will see a message "Create your Blog now". So click on the New Blog button on the left side.

Step 3 - Enter the Title, Address and select a Template for your Blog

This step is a crucial step, select an appropriate Title for your Blog (can be changed later), Address for your Blog (must be unique and can be changed later). Once your have entered Title and Address, now select a Theme for your Blog and click on "Create Blog!" button. These themes are provided by Google and can be changed whenever you want. You can easily get themes from the internet for free.

Step 4 - Blog Created lets Start Posting now

So our Blog is created now, its time to start posting. So either click on Start Posting or on the orange button with pencil icon.

Posting a new article, is very simple, you just need to write a Title for the Post and the body part. You can include images, videos, links etc into your post. and you can also edit the HTML content. Once you are done, with writing your Post, first click on Preview, to see how it looks, and if you are satisfied click on Publish.

Step 5 - Now lets learn more about Blogger

Now let us take a look at the Menu options provided by Blogger. We will give you a brief overview about each one, so that you can explore them to know more about them.

Overview - Here you will get a pictorial representation of your daily page views. Along with other details like, Comments (Awaiting moderation and Published), Pageviews today, Posts and Followers.

 Posts - Displays the list of all the Posts published as well as drafts, along with Author's name, Comments, and the count of that post's views.

 Pages - You can add custom pages like "About Me" page by creating a new Blank Page. From here you can also choose to display Side Links or Top Tabs for Pages and Labels.

 Layout - From here you can handle the layout of your Blog. You can add new widgets, arrange them and can remove the unwanted ones. There are free widgets available, provided by Blogger, which you can easily add to your Blog. Click and Drag widgets to rearrange.

 Template - This option gives you the control of complete customization of your Template. You can change the background, can adjust widths, customize the Layout, and more detailed adjustments can be done in Advanced option, where you can set color, font and background color for Header, Footer, Body etc. So try all the option, don't worry about things going wrong, you can anytime restore back to default.

 We hope this helped you in starting your Blog and knowing more about Blogger. This is the most simple way to start a Blog, rest the success, depends on what you Post on it. So best of luck, and if you think we helped you, do Like, Tweet and Share this post.



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