How Do You Post a Blog
During the month of November, I will be creating a book one blog
post at a time.
Click Here to
see the Table of Contents for this book and other chapters as they become
available.
How Do You Post a Blog
Log in to your Blogger.com account.
On the dashboard, click NEW POST under your blog.
Labels
Post Options
Publish your post and show it to the world.
Add a Title at the top of your post.
Then begin writing your post. You have many of the same formatting
tools as you have in MS Word. You can choose from a few font styles, a few font
sizes and some font colors.
You have the ability to add links.
If you use your
cursor to highlight a sentence or a few words, you can click the LINK button
and add a link to any webpage you like. Those words you highlighted will show
up as underlined in your final post. If anyone clicks on those words, they will go to
the page you added the link for.
Adding a photo to your post is just as easy.
Put your cursor where you want the photo to be. Click the
photo icon. It will let you either pick a photo from your own computer or from
somewhere on the web. Once the photo is inserted, you can click once on the
photo and you have an option of different sizes.
At the bottom of your post window, there is a field called
LABELS. Labels can either be categories or keyword phrases. This field is
optional but helpful.
Below that are the words “Post Options”. Click on those words. Of all the options that
appear, the only ones that you need right now are READER COMMENTS and POST DATE
AND TIME.
If you like to let people leave comments on your post, check
ALLOW. Since a big part of blogging is
community interaction, this is a good thing to do.
The other option of interest is when to show your post to
the world or when to publish it.
If you choose AUTOMATIC, the post will publish as soon as
you hit the PUBLISH POST button.
If you choose SCHEDULE AT, you can say what date and time in
the future you want the post to publish. This is great if you write a lot of
posts on one day and want them to publish all week. For example, if you write
all your posts on the weekend, then you can schedule them to publish one at a
time on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. This is quite helpful if you have a busy
week or go on vacation.
Once you’ve written your post, given it a title and picked
when it should publish, the only thing left to do is hit the PUBLISH POST
button.
It’s that easy. You’ve just published your first blog post!
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