In my post here, I mentioned about the new looks of some or most of my themed blogs. How I did it? It was actually quick and fun. It was all made possible by Blooger itself as it offered all the tools and design and all I did was choose from all the available resources that Blogger offered to its users. It's very easy and quick to use. The following video was released by Blogger to summarize it all. See also other articles about blogging, the links and titles are provided at the bottom of this article.
Do you want to customize your blog too to suit your theme or your personality? Now that's more possible than ever! I would like to share another video on the customizing itself as I had my own tutorial too long and when I uploaded it in youtube, it was deleted :( as it was more than the 10-minute limit so I have to reedit it before sharing ( I don'tknow when I will have time) but for the meantime, this video here don't hurt.
Good luck with your blog (Blogger) customization. I love how many options you can have from this new (latest) blogger resources:
Previous Series:
Saturday, June 19, 2010
New Blogger Design Tutorial Using New Blogger Tools: Part IV of Starting Blogging 101 Series
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Sunday, May 16, 2010
New Blogger Design Tutorial Using Gmail Account: Part III of Starting Blogging 101 Series
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Sunday, May 16, 2010
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This is the third part of the series on creating a gratis or free blog out of scratch. This is basically for beginners but for those who want to learn more, even if they/you are not a beginner anymore,maybe you would try to see and advice what we can improve here. That is highly appreciated. This video focuses on creating the blog using Gmail account that has been created in previous series and customizing the template,layout, backgrounds,size,etc.of this new blog. I suggest you read everything first then watch the video in full screen.
From the previous article, you just created your Google account through Gmail. For those who have existing Google accounts already, this would be your starting point: accessing Blogger and creating a blog using your existing Gmail or Google account. There is also a video with this article (just above this paragraph) on how to do this step but before playing the video, take note of the following:
- 1. You need your Google account/Gmail username and password;
- 2. Upon logging in to Blogger (www.blogger.com), another language might be there, simply change the language to your preferred one as shown in the video;
- 3. When you are inside, logged in your account, and at the creation of the Blog, you may opt to “Check Availability” of the “Blog Address url” before clicking the “Continue” button. It’s up to you if you want to check the availability or not. Blogger will also tell you if the url is not anymore available and will "force" you to change that url before you can go on;
- 4. You can also see which stage of blog creation you are in: in the Blogger page, inside your account, 3 steps are indicated to guide you: (1) Create account; (2) Name Blog; and (3) Choose Template. All these 3 are performed and shown in the following video. The templates available in this video are the basic and simple ones. Later on this tutorial, we will be customizing and beautifying your templates and layout, just a little bit of patience and we will get there
- 5. Take note that the first article in the dummy blog at http://learning-blog-101.blogspot.com, I created it and simply copied it and pasted in the post area of the blog. I also advice the same thing for you, to write offline and save it in your hard drive so that in case Blogger crashes or your connection and/or computer crashes, you don’t lose your article. (I apologize for some Italian texts and instructions popping out from time to time; this laptop is Italian and I speak the language too so I don’t bother changing everything to English)
- 6. The video already shows how to add an image in the post and how to create a “tag” or “label” (in the video the tag is “Blogging”) for the posts. You can create more tags if you like. Blogger will let you know when you exceeded maximum tags.
- 7. You may opt to ”Preview” your post before publishing but personally, I rarely do that as I can always return and edit anything anyway.
Now you may watch the video. This tutorial has a few more series to post and your blog is ready and beautiful. Goodluck and enjoy blogging!
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