1.2 Using Blogger

1.2.1 Creating a Blog

Blogger can be accessed at www.blogger.com. You need to sign up to be able to create a blog. You can sign in to Blogger using your e-mail ID. Alternatively, you can also create a distinct Blogger ID.

Like any Web page, your blog will have a URL—the address by which others will access it. Thanks to the popularity of blogger.com, the chances of finding your preferred blog URL are slim—for example, if you want to keep your blog name as “moneyits4u”, so keep it as moneyits4u.blogspot.com. So, once you have compromised on a URL of your choice, you are presented with a clutch of page styles to choose from. The styles differ in the font, color, and layout, and there is a preview of each. After you have finalized the page style, you can ask Google to go ahead and create the blog. “Creating” the blog is nothing but publishing a Web page online. The page, with the style you choose, could have been manually coded using HTML and scripts. Fortunately, all the necessary functions are carried out in the background, leaving your to twiddle your thumbs as the process is gone through. Simplicity, like we said, is the buzzword. Once the blog is published, it can be accessed at the URL you chose, and you can start posting to it.