Wednesday, March 3, 2010

BLOG SETTINGS

Sign in to blog
1. find www.blogger.com
2. fill in username and password as per gmail’s username
3. click sign in > page 'dashboard' appear
4. click settings

Basic
1. click basic
2. fill in particulars
     title to be put at the top of blog
     description as a description of the title & blog
     add your blog to our listing? Choose ‘yes’ so that your posting always entered the blogger.com list.
     let search engines find your blog? Choose ‘yes’
     show quick editing on your blog? Choose ‘yes’
     show email post links? Choose ‘yes’
     adult content? Choose ‘no’
     show Compose Mode for all your blogs? Choose ‘yes’
     select post editor? Choose ‘updated editor’
     enable transliteration? Choose ‘disable’
3. click save settings

Publishing
1. click publishing
2. fill in particulars
     blogspot address
     word verification as per images
3. click save settings

Formatting
1. click formatting
2. fill in particulars
     show Chose the number of post you want to display in your blog. Example : Show : 6 post, it's means your posting will display in your page. Choose Post (don't days) at pulldown menu
     date header format
     archive index date format
     timestamp format
     time zone for Malaysia, choose (GMT +8.00 ) Kuala Lumpur
     language
     convert line breaks choose ‘yes’
     show title field choose ‘yes’
     show link fields choose ‘no’
     enable float alignment choose ‘yes’
     post template
3. click save settings

Comments
1. click comments
2. fill in particulars
     comments choose ‘Show’
     who can comment? Choose ‘anyone’. It means anyone can comment to your post
     comment form placement
     comments default for posts choose ‘new post have comments’
     backlinks choose ‘show’. It means you will know if other people have links to your post. Backlinks enable you to keep track of other pages on the web that link to your posts. For instance, suppose Alice writes a blog entry that Bob finds interesting. Bob then goes to his own blog and writes a post of his own about it, linking back to Alice's original post. Now Alice's post will automatically show that Bob has linked to it, and it will provide a short snippet of his text and a link to his post.
     backlinks default for posts choose ‘new post have backlinks’
     comments timestamp format
     comment form message
     comment moderation
     show word verification for comments? Better to choose ‘yes’
     show profile images on comments? Choose ‘yes’. It means the photo of commentator of blogger member will be displayed.
     comment notification email
3. click save settings

Archiving
1. click archiving
2. fill in particulars
     archive frequency Choose ‘monthly’
     enable post pages? Choose ‘yes’
3. click save settings

Site Feed
1. click site feed
2. fill in particulars
     Allow Blog Feeds choose ‘full’
     Post Feed Redirect URL
     Post Feed Footer if you have advertising code like Adsense, you can insert the code here.
3. click save settings

Email & Mobile
1. click Email & Mobile
2. fill in particulars
     BlogSend Address choose ‘full’
     Email Posting Address by fill in ‘secretWords’ box, you can create a post from email and publish directly to blog.
     Mobile Devices
4. click save settings

Permissions
1. click permissions
2. fill in particulars
     Blog Authors
     Blog Readers

SETTING UP A BLOG AT BLOGSPOT

Blog (abbreviation from Web log) is sites which more dominant in private characteristic. This means, most of the content will be affected (realize or not) by the characteristic of the Blogger (Blog user) himself.

Blog was made by the designers of the blog provider in order to work automatically and easily to be operated on, so for those who still confused with the programming language to make one website, yet still not be a problem.

How to make a blog?
We can find a lot of free blog provider in internet, and some of them were really famous nowadays. I’m going to review about making a blog in www.blogger.com

To make a blog, you need to set up an account in Google / Gmail first.

Set up Gmail
1. Find http://www.google.com.my
2. click Gmail
3. click create an account
4. fill in particulars
     First name
     Last name
     Desired Login Name ex : muhammad > click checked availability
     Choose a password
     Re-enter password
     Default Homepage
     Security Question
     Answer
     Recovery email optional, may leave blank
     Location
     Word Verification as per images
5. click I accept. Create my account

Set up blog
1. find www.blogger.com
2. type username and password (as per gmail account)
3. click create a blog > page ‘sign up for blogger’ appears
4. fill in particulars
     email address ex : muhammad@gmail.com
     your name
     display name to be use to sign blog post
     email notifications optional, may leave blank
     acceptance of terms click the check box
5. click continue > page ‘name ur blog’ appear
6. fill in blog title
     blog address (URL) > click checked availibility
7. click continue > page ‘choose a template’ appear
8. click any desired template
9. click continue > page ‘your blog has been created’ appear
10. click start blogging

Log out
1. click sign out