Blogging
has become one of the more popular pastimes on the internet. Some
people blog for money, others blog about current events, and others blog
for humor. The list goes on. Increasingly, bloggers are use weblogs as a
personal journal, preferring to keep it out of the spotlight. If you're
someone who wants to start a personal blog, it's really quite easy.
Here's how to start.
1. Go to the Blogger publishing
screen.
If you just
finished signing up for your blog, click the Start Posting link to start a blog
post; the publishing screen appears. If you’re coming back to Blogger, log in.
Blogger takes you to the Dashboard — a kind of control panel showing you the
blogs you have set up — giving you access to tools like posting, help
resources, or even creating another blog. Click the New Post link on the
Dashboard to get to the Publishing screen.
2. Enter a title for your post
in the Title field.
Titles are a
lot like newspaper headlines: catchy and informative so that they encourage
visitors to your blog to continue reading.
3. Write your post in the large
field.
Consider
writing your blog posts in a standard word-processing program, such as Notepad
or Microsoft Word, and saving the document. Many bloggers have spent hours composing
right in the entry field of their blog software only to find that their
Internet connection has failed or another technical problem has occurred,
resulting in a lost post.
4. Format your post.
Blogger’s
entry field includes icons across the top that let you change the font and font
size, apply bold and italics to text, and create common formatting styles like
lists. To use these features, select the text in the field that you want to
modify by clicking and dragging over the text; then click the appropriate icon
or select an option from the desired drop-down list.
Enjoy
Blogging!!
