Monday, February 19, 2007

Blog Educations part 2 : How to create u'r own blog in blogger.com?

1. Go to the Blogger.com web site - click the logo of blogger.com on the right besides (I Power Blogger)>>>>

2. Click on "create your blog now".

3. You will be asked to make up a username and password.

4. On the next page you will be asked to name your blog. Ignore this form or your blog will not appear under your domain name. Instead, you need to click on click on Advanced Blog Setup.

5. Fill out the advanced set up form as per this example. Where we have used "domain.com" you need to enter your real domain name. Remember to click the FTP button.

Eaxmple advanced blog set up form.

6. Choose a template.

7. Click on Start Posting.



8. Enter the text of the first entry in your your blog:

9. Click on Publish Post. You will be asked to enter your FTP username and password. These are the ones from our welcome email.

Assuming you entered the FTP settings correctly your blog will be published with its first entry on the front page. You can now go to your web site and you will see the pages.

When the first page is full Blogger creates archives of the older posts. A link to these appears on the front page of your site.

You can log into the Blogger.com web site to add and delete posts at any time.

Advanced options

Storing the FTP username and password

If you do not want to type in your FTP username and password each time you publish you can log into the Blogger.com site, click on settings, then click on the publishing tab. You can enter the username and password and it will be stored for you.

Template modification

If you know HTML you can edit the template to mke your blog look any way you want it to. You need to remember not to delete any of the blogger tags or it will stop working.

Other blog location

If you want your blog to be at another location under your domain like www.mydomain.com/blog then on the advanced set up form put the FTP path as public_html/blog.


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