Using Blogger- Creating a Blog

Thursday, October 9, 2008

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
Gmail 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 your name is as common as Rajesh, forget about
rajesh.blogspot.com—in fact, even forget about rajesh1
.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, colour, and layout, and there is a pre-
view of each. After you have finalised 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.