IMPORTANT: When you use your personal gmail account and your personal blog, you should use a different browser than the one that you use for your official education/university gmail, otherwise this causes problems. e.g. I use Firefox for my University of MN gmail, and Chrome for my personal gmail and personal blog.
Enter your personal gmail email address, which should be the one that you want to use to be paired with your blog that you are going to create [must not be your official education one. You’ll have to retype your email address in the second box.
Enter password (it’s a good idea to write this down somewhere safe — or email it to yourself and then save the email so you can refer to it later if you forget it). You have to retype the password in the second box.
Enter a display name
Choose a user name. If you prefer people not to know who you actually are, then choose a fictitious name. e.g. 2tech4me
Accept the terms (it is safe to do and won’t generate junk mail).
Word verification: type the letters that appear as a graphic above the verification box. This is there to ensure that the blog is being created by a person and not automatically being generated by a computer.
Click on the “Continue” arrow
On the “Name your blog” screen:
Enter title: This is the title that will appear at the top of your blog page and will also be the default name that will appear in users’ browsers when they bookmark/add to favorites you blog, so choose something that will give readers a clear idea of what your blog is about
Blog address: pick something that you’ll remember easily and that is easy to type.
Click on the “Continue” arrow
On the “Choose a template” screen:
Scroll through the selections and click on the little radio button next to the name of the template that you choose. e.g. I chose the snapshot template. Note: you can change the template later if you decide you don’t like the one you have selected, so don’t spend too much time at this point worrying what will look best!
Click on the “Continue” arrow
Click on the “Start Blogging” arrow
A window will appear that looks much like a word processing window. Start typing, and use the formatting bar at the top to help you format your entry. e.g. You can change font size, type of font, color, justification, create links and so on. Experiment with these to see what they do.
When finished, click on “Publish Post”
To see the results, click on the link to “View Blog.”
create a new post (a new blog entry): click on the “NEW POST” button
change your blog settings (don’t worry about this now, but do explore later)
edit your existing posts: to do this, click on “Edit Posts” –> this takes you to a screen that gives you the option of creating a new post or editing your entries. To edit entry, click on the “Edit” link next to the entry. This opens the blog in editing mode, and you can go ahead and edit
to post blog once you are done editing, click on the orange “Publish Post” button (which takes you to “Your blog post published successfully!” window, and from there, click to “View Blog”).
When you want to blog again on another day, just go to blogger.com
at the top of the page that opens, you will see “Sign in to use Blogger with your Google Account.”
Fill in your username and password (that you created in step 3 above).
Click “Sign In”
To post a comment on a blog: