Create a blog
Hi, friends you might have heard about blogging, it is actually a wonderful medium to express yourselves among billions of people around the globe. It could be about anything which you better know. Its work as a newspaper which owned you. Here I would like to give a detailed description on blogging. Many people have changed their lives daily with blogging since its establishment. The internet is such a huge platform where millions of people earning while blogging. They have been changing their lives with blogging and thousands of others are changing their livelihood with this amazing way of expressing yourself. If you are serious about blogging, it could be an income source like ATM. So many proven ways are there to earn while blogging, which is absolutely free to join. Don’t expect to become a millionaire in overnight. It will but take time, you have to set a period 6 to 12 months by investing 2 to 3 hours on a daily basis, I am sure that $ 1000 will knock your door on a regular basis for a minimum. There are many platforms like blogger, Wordpress which has been providing blogging absolutely free. Today I am going to describe How to start a blog with Blogger which is a Google platform.
How to create a blog with Blogger.com
First of all, you have to create an email account with Gmail. Then go to blogger.com, enter your user name and password, and click Sign in. You have to give a display name and accept Blogger’s Terms of Services. Once you click the Create a Blog link it will be started.
The next part is so interesting because here you are going to name your website, who knows it could be a turning point in your life. Just open up your mind and pick a dynamic as well as catchy name, please remember website name has been an important role for success in the digital world , just think Google, yahoo, face book, how catchy they are, they are like magnet nobody can get away from their attraction. So without any hesitation give an address name (URL) like www.bloggertonic.blogspot.com and give a blog title, which is related to the subject of your blog. Then there would be a chance to select different blog template where your blog will appear, a wide verity of templates as per categories like business, cooking, family has been provided. Once it is over, it is time for creativity; you are supposed to add information to your personal profile section. You will get all the option which is so easy to use to customize how your blog looks. You may proud of your work .Now it’s time for blogging.
Dashboard
Your Dashboard you can call it as a control panel where you will get all the functions which help to control your blogs. Simply you can see all the blogs which are listed and you can click on the icons next to them to perform lot of actions on each blog, such as
Writing a new post: Just click on the orange colored Pencil Icon on your Dashboard it will access the Post Editor.
Viewing your posts: The gray colored Post List icon will take you to a list of your published as well as drafted posts for a specific blog.
Catching up on your favorite blogs: Just below the list of your own blogs, you will get a list of other famous blogger’s latest posts which you follow
Everything else: You will get a checkout drop-down menu next to the Post List icon for a quick link:
Overview
Posts
Pages
Comments
Stats
Earnings
Layout
Template
Settings
Note: The Earnings tab will appear only if you are approved for Adsense (An earning program of Google, will have a detailed description on another section)
Let’s go for details
Overview
In this Overview tab, you can watch your blog’s activity, news and important tips from Blogger team as well as recent Blogs of Note.
Here comes the back bone of any blog, once you have logged in to Blogger, you will reach your dashboard with your list of blogs. What you have to do:
Click the orange pencil icon to write a new post, and enter anything you want to share with the world.
When you write on anything your interest in a specific subject is so important to explore more ways as well as to establish a popular blog. You might be interested in your topic, but unless others are also you will always have an uphill fight in building a populous blog.
You would have to keep in mind that you are writing in a global medium where billions of audience are there and as a result, you don’t need a specific topic that everyone is searching, just one that some people are searching for because even it’s something that even a small percentage of people have an active interest in it can be a large profit area.
Next, you will get the Post Editor page. This is your writing area where you get almost all functions of an Office Word Tool. Just start blogging with rich content. As per content, you would have to give a proper title in your post title bar.
Once you have completed, click the Preview button at the top so that you can have a look, how it would be?
Add an image
If you want to add an image from your computer or the web to your blog, just click the image icon in the Post Editor toolbar. A window will appear and ask you to browse for an image file on your computer, or enter the URL of an image on the Web.
Once you have selected your image, you can have options for a layout to determine how your image will appear in your post.
You can have ‘Left’, ‘Center’, and ‘Right’ options which allow you to customize the way your blog text will flow around your image.
With the help of ‘Image size’ options, you can determine the size of the image will appear within your post. Then click on UPLOAD IMAGES to add your image, and then click on DONE when a window will appear with a message that ‘Your image has been added’. Then Blogger will take back you to the Post editor, where you can see your image ready for publishing along with other content
Click UPLOAD IMAGES to add your image, and then click DONE when the notification window appears telling you that 'Your image has been added.' Blogger will then return you to the post editor, where you'll see your image ready to be published to your blog.
You may also publish images to your blog using your mobile device, apart from that Google’s free photo software Picasa, or any third-party service like flickr.
Add a video
If you want to add an image from your computer or the web to your blog, just click the film strip video icon in the Post Editor toolbar. A window will appear and ask you to Add a video to a blog post. Then click on Browse to select the video from your computer that you may wish to upload.
Make sure that the videos should be in any of the following formats AVI, MPEG, Quick Time, Real or Windows Media files. Also, you may allow to upload the video files less than 100MB in size only.
You would have to add a title in the ‘Video Title’ box and agree to the terms and conditions while you start the uploading (you have to do this the first time when you upload a video with Blogger). Then click UPLOAD VIDEO.
While your uploading process is going on you can see a placeholder in the post editor showing that where your video will appear. You can also see a status message regarding the progress of uploading just below the post editor. Once it is completed, usually takes about 5 minutes, your video will appear in the post editor section.
Template (Customize)
This session is quite interesting. Here you can use your creativity also by customizing your blog. While creating a new blog you are asked to choose a default template, this would be basic design of your blog. You have a wide variety of templates to choose, simply pick the one that you feel appropriate for your blog.
When you with Template tab, you will get two options Customize button and Edit HTML button, when you click on Customize button you will get few for options like,Adjust width, Background, Layout, and Advanced with the help of these you can customize your blog template entirely. Or else if you want to edit the HTML of your blog, just click on the Edit HTML button. Remember; never ever make any changes to HTML until or unless you knew it properly.
Layout
1. Just click on Layout from the drop-down menu on your dashboard below the blog you would like customized.
2. Then click Edit to edit existing gadgets, or Add a Gadget to add new ones.
3. To add a new gadget after you have clicked Add a Gadget, just click the plus sign next to your desired gadget. You may choose from gadget by category, or search for a specific gadget in the top right of the pop-up window.
Once you have added the necessary information to your selected gadget, click the orange Save arrangement button. Your layout changes will appear instantly.
Privacy and permissions
Finally, your blog is completely public, that is available for everyone worldwide. Nevertheless, you can keep it as a private one for that you have to make certain changes to the Settings /Basic tab.
Hopefully, you may understand almost all the steps to create a blog. It would be a small beginning of a great journey. Good luck.
Regards
Tamanna J
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