How to Make a blog on Blogspot

On this section, we will talk about how to make a blog on Blogspot (a.k.a Blogger). Before we start, I’ll try to review a little about blog. Blog (abbreviation from Web log) is sites which more dominant in private characteristic. This means, most of the content will be affected (realize or not) by the characteristic of the Blogger user himself. Blog was made by the designers of the blog provider in order to work automatically and easily to be operated on, even if we don't know the programming language to make website.

Blogger (Blogspot) is Google’s free features to makes a blog. Blogger is one kind from a lot of platforms which we can use to make a blog. Some other blog provider which famous nowadays, are wordpress.com, wordpress.org, or blogsome. On this article will talk about how to make an account or sign-up on Blogger or Blogspot. To make an account or sign-up on Blogger we must already have e-mail account.

Note:
Because Blogger (Blogspot) is Google’s free features, it's better if we use gmail account.

To make an account or sign-up on Blogger, Follow this instructions:

Go to blogger on http://www.blogspot.com (or you can click on the address). You'll see the page like on the picture below.

1. Language; we can choose our blog language here. On this session, I'm using English (UK). If you prefer to use other language, you can choose one in the language dropdown menu.
2. 3 easy steps to creating blogger account; those are the steps we'll use on this section.
3. Sign in to use blogger; if you already have blogger account, sign in here.

Click an arrow sign, inscribed with “CREATE YOUR BLOG NOW”. Then you'll see the blogger sign-up form (Create account form)page like on the picture below.


Fill the blogger sign-up form by following this guidance:

• Email Address; Fill it with our email address, or we can create an email account then, if we don’t have it. [Note: The new Blogger requires a Google Account to access your blogs.]
• Enter a Password; Fill it with password that we easy to remember
• Retype Password; Re-write our password again here
• Display Name; Name that we want to be displayed in our posts
• Word Verivication; Fill it with alphabet that shown on the image
• Acceptance of Term; Click on the check box "I Accept the Terms of Service", it means we agree to follow the rules on blogger "Terms of Service". If you read the rules first, click on “Terms of Service” link.

After finishing to fill up all necessary field, click the arrow inscribed with “CONTINUE”. Then you'll see the page like on the picture below.


Fill the blogger naming form by following this guidance:

• Blog Title; Name of our blog, we can make title for our blog here, example "my blog", we can change it if we need.
• Blog Address (URL); It’s our blog’s address. Ex: if we type "myblog", so our blog address is http://myblog.blogspot.com. Click on "Check Availability" to check if the address were used. If it’s not available, it means we have to looking for other blog address and check the availability again. If it available, it means we can use this address for our blog.
• Advance Setup; Don’t have to pay attention on it yet, we can learn it later.

After finishing to fill up all necessary field, click the arrow inscribed with “CONTINUE”. Then you'll see the page like on the picture below.

Those are 12 Blogger ready to use templates. Choose one template you like (You can change it later, if you want).

Click the arrow inscribed with “CONTINUE”.

Wait a moment. Then we'll see the page like on the picture below.


That's it, now we have a blog on the blogger. We can start to use the new blog by write down (Start Posting) articles. Feel free to fill up your blog with everything you want (as long it's not violating blogger Terms of Service).

Note: For one account, we can have more than one blog.

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10 Tools to Make Blog Smarter, Faster, Better

Here's 10 Tools to Make Blog Smarter, Faster, Better:
ScribeFire - Blogging From Firefox
ScribeFire is an add-on for Firefox that lets you seamlessly blog from any page you happen to be on. Easily drag and drop images from a web page into ScribeFire to republish; saves time switching to an external image editor and FTP client. Get ScribeFire adds-on here

Ecto - Blogging From Your Desktop
Ecto is a full-featured blogging desktop client for both Mac and Windows. It makes posting to multiple blogs incredibly easy. It's compatible with Wordpress, Movable Type, Typepad, Blogger, Drupal, and more. A great way to compose blog posts while offline for easy upload later. Ecto also integrates with NetNewsWire so you can easily create a draft post from an item in your newsreader.

Markdown - Easily Convert Text to HTML
Markdown is a text-to-html conversion tool that works similarly to TextExpander and Texter (and can be used in conjunction with these tools). It allows you to write more naturally and later convert your text to properly-formatted HTML. You can even use Markdown as a script within BBEdit or Textwrangler (Mac) to easily convert text to HTML, and Markdown filters are also available in the compose window of Wordpress and Movable Type.

CoLT - Quickly Copy Web Links as HTML
CoLT adds two menu items to the browser's context menu when you right click a hyperlink. Right click a hyperlink on a Web page, and the menu adds "Copy Link Text and Location As" to the menu enabling users to copy the text and its link in either HTML, plain text, BB Code, FuseTalk, or Wikipedia formats. Options can also be customized.

Roundup Maker - Automagically Create Roundup Posts
Lifehacker created this roundup maker to be used in conjunction with CoLT. Simply enter link and text from CoLT and add a description on the same line for each entry, then click "Generate Roundup," and you have a perfectly HTML-generated post.

ResizR - Resize Images on the Fly
If all you really need to do is resize and rotate your images, then ResizR is the tool for you. Browse. Upload. Convert.

Skitch - Share Images Effortlessly
Skitch is super easy for quickly manipulating screenshots and found images to publish them elsewhere without resorting to using multiple applications. It also offers features like resizing and annotating.

Turn del.icio.us Bookmarks Into Daily Posts
Sign in to your del.icio.us account and select settings. In the section titled "Blogging," select "Blog Posting." Click, "Add a new job posting blog." Give it a "job name," like "Daily Link Blog," and then add your credentials for your del.icio.us account and your blog. Then set a time for your saved del.icio.us links to post to your blog every day.

Onlywire - Submit Your Posts Social Sites, All at Once
Onlywire is a tool that lets you easily submit any of your posts to about 20 social bookmarking sites for easy "social promotion." The plus, you can submit to all the sites simultaneously, which makes Onlywire different from other blog post sharing tools.

Lijit - Add Super Search to Your Blog
Lijit is a tool that allows you to put a search widget on your blog that will search an aggregate of your created content from your blogs, Flickr, digg, del.icio.us, etc. It also gives you some nice result statistics about what your users are searching for.

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