How To Create Your First Blog Post On Blogger (Blogspot)

Now that you have your own blog, what's next? Blog posting or simply blogging.

Login to your Blogger account then from your selected Blog click NEW POST which will direct your to the WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor.

Title: - is the header for your blog post.

WYSIWYG editor - is where you are going to write your first post.

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How To Add The Post Title After Read More (Jump Break)

Due to insistence by bloggers, Google finally added the jump break or "Read More" feature for blogger by default.

To customize the jump break, login to your Blogger account, select your blog and click Design. On the Blog Posts Section on Page Elements, click Edit. You can change "Read more" to "Read on" or "Continue Reading" or whatever word you find appropriate. Click Save.

To further customize the jump break feature click Edit HTML.

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How To Restore The Missing Comment Box

A common problem with customized templates are missing comment boxes. The custom template for this blog also did not have the embedded comment box probably because some of code was old. But as you can see below, the comment box is there. Here's how to restore or add the missing comment box.

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How To Install A Blogger Customized Template

Blogger default templates are good enough for starter templates but at times they lack a certain type of spunk. This is where customized blogger templates come in.

There are a lot of sites that feature customized blogger templates for free. A good place to start would be btemplates.com or eblogtemplates.com (free registration required) where I got the design templates for TechEncounter and facebookOL. You can also do a Google search for most beautiful blogger templates and get more than a million results for customized blogger templates.

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How To Setup Your Blogger Blog (Basics)

Login to your Blogger account then from your selected blog click Settings.

If you browse through the settings, they are self-explanatory and can be left at default, but I do recommend configuring the Comments section. For first time blogs and bloggers, comments are hard to come by so we have to make it easier for would-be visitors to comment. When your blog catches on then you can go back and change the comments settings as you see fit.

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How To Create Your Blog On Blogger (Blogspot)

1. Sign up for Google Services

GMail - is a free Email service provided for by Google. If you don't have a GMail account yet, click HERE to sign up.

Since Blogger is provide for by Google, it would be most advisable to use GMail to create your blog on Blogger plus for the other Google services I will be pointing out as we go along on this guide.

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What Is A Blog?

Shortened from the term "Web log," a blog is a type of website or part of a website that is usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video.

Most blogs are interactive, allowing visitors to leave comments and even message each other via widgets on the blogs and it is this interactivity that distinguishes them from other static websites.

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