Blogger is Google’s free tool for creating blogs. It can be found on the web at http://www.blogger.com. Blogs, short for web-logs, are a form of online journal.
Getting Started With Blogger
You
can use blogs for everything from updating your friends and family
about your life, giving your own advice column, discussing your
political views, or relating your experience in a topic of interest. You
can host blogs with multiple contributors, or you can run your own solo
show. You can even use Blogger to make your own podcast feeds.
Although there are fancier blog tools out there, the mixture of cost
(free) and flexibility makes Blogger one of the best deals around.
Setting Up Your Blog
Setting up a Blogger account takes three easy steps. Create an account, name your blog, and choose a template. You can host multiple blogs with the same account name, so you only need to do that part once. This way you could separate your professional blog about your business from your personal blog about dogs, for instance.Hosting Your Blog
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Blogger
will host your blog for free on blogspot.com. You can also use Blogger
to automatically ftp your blog posts to your own web space. Make sure
you have the correct server settings from your internet service
provider, otherwise you may have unpredictable results.
Posting
Once
your blog is set up, Blogger has a basic WYSIWYG editor. (What you see
is what you get) This is not necessarily a bad thing. Most blogging
tools do not have robust html editors, and the ones that do often
require java or other plug-ins. If you need more formatting options and a larger window, you can use Google Docs
to post to your Blogger blog. You could also do advanced editing with
HTML. Blogger has an HTML tab to let you do this directly, although it
does not allow JavaScript.
Email Your Posts
You can optionally configure Blogger with a secret email address, so you can email your posts to your blog. This is handy for making updates on the fly or updating from your cell phone or other mobile device.Pictures
That doesn't mean you can't post with pictures that you've hosted elsewhere on the Web. You can also use Picasa Web Albums to post pictures to your blog.
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