Blogger is the best option in case you want to build posts and pages without learning to code, and it is also much easier than Word Press.
To start with the Blogger, just visit its main page and click on Create Your Blog, log in with your Google account and define the main name (or title) for your blog. Choose a URL that will take, Blog Spot is the main domain by default, we will see how to insert a custom domain. Then define a Display Name (your profile name) and you are done. At this point, you enter into the Dashboard.
A GDPR notice informs you that cookies are added to your blog automatically to be compliant with the privacy regulations. To get a live preview, click on View Blog, Let us see how to realize posts. You can start writing on New Post. On top, define the post name (or title) and then type the body content at the bottom. You can also copy, paste any text. You can also apply different formats including paragraph (or p HTML tag) and the several Headings (h1, h2 tags, and so on). You can change the text style, its fill color, or its background color. With the link button, you can also include hyperlinks, specifying the piece of text to insert, the destination address, and the option to open the link in a new browser window. You can also insert an image from your computer or any URL, adjusting alignment, size, captions.
Insert video, you can include any video from your computer or directly from YouTube, resizing it if you need. You can also include emojis, adjust any paragraph alignment or add bulleted or numbered lists. If you are ready, click on Publish on the right to apply all and make your post live.
The Post settings. Here you can add labels (or tags) to find your post on your blog or the internet, change the post-publication date, or get the post Permalink, used to share the post anywhere on, Location inserts any interesting place and opens options to manage the comments permissions on such posts. This shows a bigger Featured Post (the latest article) and all the other posts at the bottom, composing the Page Body.
You can take the Sidebar on the left and hide your blogger profile from it, or change the Gadget orders. Make sure to save it to get a quick preview of it. You can hide or show the Header on top, specify any Title or Description, or add any image as background. You can also change the Featured Post appearance by showing or hiding the title, abstract, or thumbnail from it. On-Page Body sets the number of posts and comments to show.
The Composed or the HTML view as seen for the posts. It remains unreachable unless you share its permalink on your blog or the internet, to add this link to a dedicated Menu. Now, let us see how to customize the blog appearance.
This is defined by a ready, template called theme. Up to now, we have shown this one, on top, but there are loads of others available on Blogger that you can select, check and apply live. These Themes can change not just the basic appearance and color, but also the overall layout of your blog. On top, you can go to Customize to edit your current theme in detail. From the left, click under Background image to browse for any image to use as the main background.
You can also change the Main color theme on some pieces of text, menus, and buttons, according to the options provided by the theme. If you need to customize more you have to include HTML codes as we will see shortly. Under Advanced you find other options to edit the elements you have such as background color, font style and color, and also the colors on links, visited links, and hover-links. All these options change according to the element chosen. Whereas under Gadgets you can edit all the gadgets present. To save and publish all, use the Save button in the bottom right corner. Next to the Customize button, you can make a Backup of the current theme or restore it to restart from its original version. You can also switch to an older generation theme and Edit the HTML code to apply modifications not possible with the simple theme interface just seen. In the Comments section, you can check and manage all comments left by hiding, flagging, or removing any.
Whereas on Stats you can check how your website is performing and on Earnings, you can connect and check your AdSense account stats, if you have any links. Inside Settings, you can adjust several blog options such as title, description, or blog language. You can also add warnings in case you treat adult content and add any Google Analytics ID to get details on your traffic and performance.
Moreover, you can click on it to customize the icon of the browser tab that opens your blog. Make sure to clear and, your eye cache if you do not see it applied. Below you get other options such as showing or hiding your blog from web searches, applying an HTTPS protocol - that we recommend for safety, and managing permissions. Also, set the number of posts to be listed and include any CSS file to use as a template. Under Formatting adjust the time zone and the data format and on Meta tags add all the keywords to improve your blog indexing on search engines, separated by commas. Below, you can edit the display messages in case of non-existing pages (404 errors) and apply redirects.
Under Monetization include your ads.txt file if you want to link any Google AdSense account and under Manage Blog make a backup of your whole blog or delete it if you want. In addition, under Publishing, you have the option to use a Custom Domain. You can buy any from Google or use the one you already have. In this case, Blogger will give you two CNAME records to add to your domain panel. Once you log in to your domain, remove any A record and insert the two requested CNAME records with the correct name and description. After this, wait at least 24 hours and add your domain, enabling redirects to make it effective.
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By: MH Pasha
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