Simple Blogger Tutorials

Launched in 1999, Blogger , a Google Service, is a great way to create your own blog for a starter. Blogger is totally free with free hosting. Blogger is for: To share your thoughts, photos, and more with friends and world. Easy to post text, photos, and videos from the web or your mobile phone. Unlimited flexibility to personalize your blog with themes, gadgets, and more. First we going to learn how to create your own blog with some simple steps below:

Upload your template form blogger 's dashboard > Design > Edit HTML tab and check " Expand Widget Templates ". All you have to do is edit the links. So find for: http://www.facebook.com/Blogger.Tutorials http://twitter.com/blogger_raju http://www.youtube.com/ And replace these with your Facebook and Twitter IDs. Now for the navigation bar, find: <ul> <li><a href='/'>Home</a></li> <li><a href='#'>Products</a></li> <li><a href='/p/about.html'>About</a></li> <li><a href='/p/contact-me.html'>Contact Me</a></li> <li><a href='#'>Edit</a></li> <li><a href='#'>Edit 2</a></li> </ul> You will find that it's a list of links formated in "ul" and "li". All you have to do is change and add your links as shown in the example below: <ul>...

The Permission Settings for blogger can be found within the Settings tab. Let's have a glimpse on it. Blog Authors: You can add authors for your blogspot blog in this setting. Click “ ADD AUTHORS ” and invite him/her by typing in the authors email. The author will receive an email about the invitation with a confirmation link. Blog Readers: Here you can set the readers for your blog. If you want your blog to be publicly readable then select “ Anybody ”, “ Only people I choose ” is for selected members and if you want your blog to be readable only by you and your blog authors and no one can visit your blog then select “ Only blog authors ”.

For Blogger's email and mobile settings go to Settings > Email & Mobile . Show mobile template: This is a new settings which will enable mobile version of your blog. Select "Yes" if you want it otherwise "No". BlogSend Address: You can enter upto 10 email address to send your blog posts as notification. Email Posting Address: Also known as Mail2Blogger , which can be used to directly publish your blogger posts from your email address . First you have to set a pass-code as username.your-passcode@blogger.com and select weather to “Publish emails immediately” or “Save emails as draft posts”. Mobile Devices: You can also add your mobile device to publish your posts to Blogger on the Go. Click “Add mobile device”, a pop-up window will open with a verification code which will asked to resend to go@blogger.com . Learn more about using mobile devices for blogger .

It's very important to setup blogger's feed in proper way. This can be found on Settings > Site Feed tab. You will find every basic thing there itself so let’s switch to Advance Mode . Blog Posts Feed: Select “Full” to syndicate the full content of your post. Select “Short” if you only wish to syndicate the first paragraph, or approximately 255 characters, whichever is shorter. The new settings "Until Jump Break" allows your feed to be shown to that particular position you have used "Read More" option . Blog Comment Feed: It’s the total number of comments for your blog. Same rule will be applied to the blog comments like Posts Feed. Per-Post Comment Feeds: It’s the comment feed only for the particular posts. The same rule goes as above. Post Feed Redirect URL: If you are using FeedBurner to manage your blog feeds then you may like to know how to Redirect Feeds and Setup FeedBurner for Blogger . If not using any feed manager then leave it blank....

One of the most important settings can be found on blogger's Settings > Archiving tab. It will let you to configure how to archive your blog post. Archive Frequency: Set the frequency of your blog posts that should be archived. “Monthly” in better option . Enable Post Pages: This will enable to have a more search engine friendly address for your blog posts rather than having dynamic URLs (it will add no keywords to post titles) which is bad. If you need traffic, turn this to “Yes” which is recommended. If selected “No” then you may not get the desided traffic and the embedded inline comment form to blogspot template. Save settings.

Let us have a look how would you like to setup your comment settings for blogger . Go to Settings > Comments tab to configure it. Comments: Select “Show” to show the comments in each posts. Select “Hide” if you want to hide the existing comments, it will not delete the old comments. Who Can Comment: Select specifically who can comment to your posts. Comment Form Placement: Select the type of comment form you want. Full page - opens a new tab (window) Pop-up window – a pop-up window will appear Embedded below post – better known as inline comment form for blogger Comments Default for Posts: The options are “New Posts have Comments” which will automatically add the comment option to “Allow” as default for each and every post that you will publish, in your post editor. “New Posts Do Not Have Comments” will “Disallow” the commenting option by default. Backlinks: Show or hide backlinks for each posts. Backlinks Default for Posts: you may like to read the help file about...