eBook developed on how to setup and use Blogger

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Creating a Blog
Easily on
Blogger
Your Step by Step Guide

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Introducing Blogger
Blogger is a blog publishing service by
Google. Users can write and publish a
blog free of charge. Generally these
blogs are hosted on blogpot.com.
One great advantange is the Blogger is
available to suers in the following
languages: Arabic, Bengali, Indonesia,
Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese
(Simplified), Chinese (Traditional),
Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch,
English, Filipino, Finnish, French,
German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew,
Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian,
Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Latvian,
Lithuanian, Malay, Malayalam,
Marathi, Norwegian, Oriya, Persian,
Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese
(Portugal), Romanian, Russian,
Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish,
Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish,
Ukrainian, Vietnamese. Nepali, and
Farashi.
Getting Started
Starting a blog on Blogger is easier
than ever. Follow these steps and
you’ll be well on your way to writing
and publishing our blog in no time.
STEP 1
It’s always best to start at the
beginning. So begin by establishing
an account on Blogger. If you have a
Google account already then there is
no need to sign up just login on the
Blogger platform with your Google
email and password.
If you don’t have a Google account
then begin by going to
www.blogger.com and click on the
Sign Up button in the top right hand
corner of the screen. Because this is
a Google platform you need to
establish a Google account. You can
do this by filling out the form
provided. Accept Google’s Terms of
Service and then click on Next Step.
You will receive a confirmation that
your account has been set up. Now
click the Back to Blogger button.

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STEP 2
If you are just setting up your Google account then you will need to conform your Google
profile. There are two ways to do this.
You can create a full Google+ account or you can choose to create a limited logger profile.
The only limitation is that the two profiles won’t be linked if you choose only a Blogger
profile. Creating a Google+ profile will link our new Google+ profile with your Blogger
profile.
We are going to work forward with the assumption that you only want a Blogger profile. So
click on Create a limited Blogger profile. You will need to select the Display Name that you
want viewers to see. Enter your display name and click on Continue to Blogger.
Congratulations!
You are now set to begin your blogging journey.
Now it’s time to get your blog started.

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STEP 3
Once your profile is set up you will be taken to the main dashboard on Blogger where you
will begin your path to blogging.
It’s now time to start your new blog. Click on the New Blog button to begin creating your
first blog on Blogger. A popup box will appear:
1. You will need to enter the title of your blog.
2. Create the beginning of the web address for your blog.
3. Select a template for your blog.
4. When you are finished click on Create Blog.
Once you have clicked on Create Blog, Blogger will begin compiling your blog based on the
information you entered and the template you have selected.

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You will then receive confirmation that your blog is set up and ready for you to begin
posting to.
To begin creating your first post click on Start Posting. If you want to come back later and
write your first blog then the next time you sign into Blogger you will see a screen that
looks like this:
To begin writing your post click on Start Blogging. Your blogging platform will appear. It’s
a simple and easy to use platform. This platform is what we like to call a What You See Is
What You Get platform. If you look closely you can see that it resembles a Microsoft Word
document.
The navigation to format your blog is easy to use:
Working from left to right you can compose your blog in two ways:
 Compose where you simply type.
 HTML where you add html coding to format your blog.
Most people will just Compose a blog unless they have HTML experience. You can adjust
the font used by clicking on the F dropdown menu and you can change the font sixe by
clicking on the T drop down menu.

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You have your standard document options such as: B (Bolding), I (Italicize) and U
(Underline). Scroll your mouse over the remaining icons and you will see what each button
allows you to do such as striking through content, changing the color of Scroll your mouse
over the remaining icons and you will see what each button allows you to do such as
striking through content, changing the color of our content, highlighting your content,
adding a link, adding a photo, adding a video, inserting a break, aligning your font, adding
bullets, adding quote, removing formatting and spell checking your content. Again it’s
almost the same navigation you would use when typing a document.
Now simply type your blog content, add any photos, links or videos and once you are
finished
Now simply type your blog content, add any photos, links or videos and once you are
finished you are ready to begin the publishing of that blog.
The first step to publishing your blog is to establish the post settings. On the right hand
side of the screen you will see the Post Settings options:
 LABELS - You can add labels to categorize your posts. For example if you were
writing a trip about Things to Do in Paris, your tags could be “traveling” and “Paris”.
 SCHEDULE – You can schedule your post to automatically post once you click on
Publish or you can schedule it for a specific date or time.
 PERMALINK – The permalink is the URL of your post. The system will set this
automatically or you can change it to something easier to remember and unique to
the post.
 LOCATION – You can add a geographical location.
 OPTIONS – You can allow comments or block any comments from being posted.
The remaining options reference HTML and line breaks and should only be used by
those who are experienced with more of a developer role.
Once you have all your settings the way you want them then it’s time to either publish the
post or save it for later.

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You can preview your post to see how others will see it by clicking on the Preview button.
If you want to come back to the post later than simply click on Save. If you are ready to
publish your post then click on Publish. Once you click on Publish your blog will be
published. Congratulations!
If at any time you want to change something within a post you can edit it anytime from
your Blogger dashboard. You can also share the post or delete it.
You have successfully completed getting your Blogger account set up and creating your
first blog. Now that you’ve walked through the process you can add additional posts at any
time to your blog by clicking on New Post from your dashboard.
Note: You can create more than one blog. From your dashboard click on My Blogs and
you’ll be taken to the main screen again where you can create additional blogs. If you
create more than one blog all you need to do when signing in is select the blog you want
to publish a post on and then create your post.
Welcome to using Blogger and the world of blogging!