Blogger is a free, fast, powerful and easy-to-use blogging platform backed by Google. With blogger, you can start your own blog in minutes and share your writing / articles with the whole world. It is very easy to get a blog with Blogger. All you need is a Google Account, if you already have one, then just sign into blogger with your existing account or you can Sign up for new anytime. By default the blogs are hosted by Google at a subdomain of blogspot.com, but you've the option to use a custom domain for your blog.
A user can have up to 100 blogs per account. Unlike WordPress, Blogger cannot be installed on a web server, however, you get free hosting for your blog since, Google is providing that for free. As Blogger is backed by Google you've lots of help articles and
of-course there are Blogger Help Forums (BHF) where you can get help with anything.
To start, visit
Blogger homepage(assuming you've signed in/up already), Then click the
Create a Blog link. Pick an address
[blogurl.blogspot.com] and a blog title (My Blogname). Then, choose a blog template (you can download & apply a custom template later
).
Now Dashboard is your starting point. This is where all your blogs are listed, and you can see icons and click on them to perform various actions on each blog, such as:
- Writing a new post: Just click on the orange Pencil icon on your Dashboard to access the Post Editor.
- Viewing your posts: The gray Post List icon will take you to a list of your published and drafted posts for a specific blog.
- Catching up on your favorite blogs: Below the list of your own blogs, you’ll see a list of the blogs you follow with an excerpt from their latest posts.
- Everything else: Check out the drop-down menu next to the Post List icon for quick navigation.
Writing a post in blogger is very easy. Once you've clicked the orange pencil icon to write a new post you'll see the Post Editor page, Start by giving your post a title & then enter the post itself. When you're done, you can click the
Preview button at the top to make sure it's ready to go, and then click the
Publish button to publish your post.
You can add & embed media like images, videos. You also have the option to make your blog available/accessible to limited/invited users only. You can add Gadgets to your blog and you've the option to add authors to your blog.
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