Editing and Publishing

On the right-hand side there are buttons labeled "Dashboard, My Account, Help and Sign out".

The Dashboard is basically a control center where you can view blogs that you've created, view and edit your profile as well as editing your notifications. Dashboard also the place where you create a new blog later on. There are also a "Reading List" section in this Dashboard. You can add other blogger's blogs for your reading and get an idea how others doing their blogs. Finally at the end of the Dashboard page you will see the "Other Stuff" section where there are links to other Google services that might be helpful for you later on.

The next button that I will explain is the "My Account" button. In My Account you will see four sections namely "Profile, Personal Settings, My Products and Try Something New". Again the Profile and Personal Settings are buttons you will use to edit or update your profile. My Products is the section where you can find all Google Products that you've been using. At the moment you probably will see "Blogger" buttons available in this section. There are a lot other Google Products that can be put on this section later on for your convenience. The final section on this page is Try Something New. This is a place where Google promoted their Google Products and you probably want to try them because most of them are free :)

I will not explain the Help and Sign out buttons as they speak their own functions :p


Tabs Function on Your Blog...

 

The first tab is Posting and the sub-tabs are New Post, Edit Posts and Comment Moderation. The Comment Moderation sub-tab will lead you to Comment Settings. In Comment Settings, you can set how a comment will look like when someone place a comment on your post.

The next tab is Setting. The sub-tabs for Setting are Basic, Publishing, Formatting, Comments, Archiving, Site Feed, Email & Mobile, OpenID and Permissions. I will not explain on each of these sub-tabs. Explore and learn on your own is better than my explanation.

Compose or Edit HTML?

Newbie like myself will always be using the Compose option when posting. However if you have experience in HTML you might using it. I know few HTML but they are not used in this section. They are useful when you want to add your meta tag or some people call it keyword into your blog. We will learn that later on. As for now we will just stick to the simplest way provided in here. 

Editing Buttons...

If you know how to use Microsoft Words then not much I have to explain here. These buttons are mostly represent what it can do. So just play around with them..

Publishing/Save Your Post

 

Finally at the end of the page you will see the PUBLISH POST and SAVE NOW buttons. After you done with your editing, just click on the Publish Post to post your blog. If you still need to do some editing then use the Save Now button and your progress will be saved as draft. You can edit later on by going to Posting (main tab) > Edit Posts (sub tab)

Okay, so I see you in the next lesson... Please come back for more...

Blogger Page For A Start

I am a newbie in this cyberspace. All I wanted from now on is to learn as much as I can to put this blog on the first page of Google search engine. Wish me luck. Starting now I will regularly update this website and show every progress that I made to achieve my target. This is including all basics, tips, tricks and suggestions that I gathered all around.

Lets take the first step to open a blog like this one...

1) Go to www.blogger.com The page will look like this...

    

2) Log in to your Google account.

3) If you don't have one you may need to register with google using your existing email. Just click on"CREATE A BLOG" to open a new account.

4) Fill in your particulars...

5) Next is to choose a name for your blog. You may put any title for your block but the hard part is to get the suitable URL for it. Fill any URL of your choice and click on "check availability". You will then know the status of the URL. You may need to think of other URLs if the one you entered is not available. Click "continue" once you've done with the URL.

6) You will then to choose a template for your blog. Choose from any color or design that suits you and select it. Don't worry, you can still change the look of your blog in future. Then click "Continue"

7) Now your blog had been created and by clicking "start blogging", you can start to write whatever you want in your blog.

8) Now that you have your own blog, you can start to explore all the functions that provided for you to make your blog so good to see and read. Stay tune for more lessons how to play with this blogger as a publisher.
See you soon...