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how to create a free website or blog with blogger.com. Now, this is a 100% free solution, you get free website hosting, and you even get a free domain name is subdomain. So it'll be something that you choose.blogspot.com. And I'm going to show you how to not only set this up, but do some customization so it fits your needs. Alright, let's go ahead and get on into the tutorial here. To start off, simply just go to blogger.com.
And with your Google account, you can click on Create your blog, we're going to go ahead and sign into your Google account, I'm going to use this one right here. And the first thing I want to do is choose a name for a blog. So I'm going to call mine, Tony teaches Tech. Go ahead and click on next. And then like I was saying, you get your free domain name URL. So it's going to be something.blogspot.com. I'm going to see if I can do Tony teaches tech.blogspot.com. That's available.
Step 2
Choose your Display Name
So I'm going to click on Next. Confirm your display name. So this is me as the author of this blog. So I'm going to use my actual name, which is Tony florita. Some people would say, Tony, Florida, and we'll click finish. So that is it until that's all you need to do really to set up the blog. Now. We'll go ahead and get rid of this message. Like I was saying, we're going to do some customization of this blog.
Step 3
Choose your blog Theme
And what we're going to do first is choose a theme. Okay? So right now let's let's take a look at what this looks like by default, you get a blog that looks like this pretty decent, right? You got your profile over here, not too much going on here and your header. And there's no content, obviously, at this point. So let's go into the theme section here. And what's cool about blogger.com is the fact that you can choose any one of these pre built themes, okay, so you got Contempo various shades of that down here. So Whoa, it's a little bit different, more more visual, more visual than this one. This one looks like it's geared towards potentially food bloggers, this one's a little bit more corporate feeling. So yeah, you can come through here and look at what theme you like, most out of all these, I'm going to go with the Contempo light theme. And that might be already what I have.
Step 4
Customize your blog theme
But what I want to do here is customize this, okay. And this is where we're going to get into like what I do on here on the screen might be different for whatever you need to do. But I just want to show you the general concepts about how you can work with the blogger.com in order to customize it. So I don't like this image, I'm going to change the image to something else. And this is going to be like a tech technical blog. So I want to have something along that pattern. So I'm going to pick this technology category and see if anything looks cool in here. And I kind of like this, this digital bits and bytes, ones and zeros. So I'm going to use that for my background instead. So got my title here, a nice background. And it. So first glance here, it doesn't seem like you can customize a lot, right, you only have the background advanced and gadgets. But what a lot of people don't realize is under the drop down here under the advanced section, you can actually customize every single are pretty much every single element on this page. So the text of the page, the background, which we just did, how the links look. And I'll just click on a couple of these link, other link color, the color of the link when you visited it, the color of the link when you hover over it. So we're not going to go through all of these, but I just want to make you aware that they exist. The one the only thing I'm going to change is the width of my content. So I tend to prefer with my websites having a narrower width. So that'll be this right here, we can just slide this to be wider or narrower. So I like to end you'll see one when we add content to the website, you'll see how this looks. So
Step 5
Edit your profile
I'll do something like that, we can always come back in here and change it if we need to. But in general, this is where a lot of the customization happens. Now, you'll see. Well, first of all, let's save this. So down here in the bottom right hand corner, we can save this you'll see that you have a profile here it's blank, we want to customize that as well. So let's get back out of here and look at our blog right now. And I'm going to visit the profile it's it's blank obviously at this point, but in order to edit it, we can click on edit profile here. And what we want to change in here the main things is a picture Okay, so let's pick a picture what we want to show up as the the icon above your name.
Step 6
Upload your website logo
So I'm going to pick my logo for my website and upload that to blogger.com and that's that looks good. And then the other thing you want to change Here new, you can feel free to know that I don't think a lot of this is public on your website unless somebody clicks into it, perhaps. But the one thing that we want to focus on is your introduction, because that is something that's going to show up on your blog. So I have something over here that I just wrote real quick a little blurb about what my blog is about. So I'm gonna put that in here. And again, you can fill out all the other sections, but these are the most important ones. Let's go ahead and save that profile. And now, when that's finished, we can go look at the blog again, let's get out of here, look at the blog. And you'll see now that we have our logo up here and a little blurb about our website, and we still have the link to the profile. So that looks good. Okay, um, let's go into here.
Step 7
Now create your blog page
Now, we're going to look at adding blog posts, okay, which has like a date and time associated with them, and pages, which are more evergreen they pages. So that I think something that a lot of people have difficulty understanding is the difference between a blog post and a page. So a page is just something that exists on your website, like a contact page, or an About Me page, something like that,
Step 8
Create your article and post
that's more permanent and blog posts are new topics that you whatever your blog is about. So for me, it would be technology topics. So let me add a couple blog posts. And I won't, I won't make you sit through this. I'm just going to use actual blog posts and bring them in. But let me fast forward through this part. And I'll catch back up with you want to have a couple blog posts on here. Oh, actually, I just realized that I think I should probably show you how to make a blog post. So once you click on posts, click on new post. And then you'll have your your editor here, just like Microsoft Word or any other word processing that you use. So you can give your your blog posts a title, call it hello world. And then you can put your content down here. So hey, this is my first blog post. Stuff like that change all the themes, or the the customization do bold, italics, make it centered if you want to. So yeah, just like a typical word processor. So like I was saying, let me add some good looking content. And that'll catch back up with you when that's ready. Okay, I'm back, I added one blog post, and I'm about to add the second one here. Looks pretty good. You got your headers, your content, all that stuff. The one thing I do want to point out here is the fact that I highly recommend for the permalink for your blog post, to change it from automatic to a custom permalink. So when it's automatic, we're looking at the URL being your your domain name slash the year, the month and then they pretty much take the title. My title is How to Stop spam comments on WordPress and just add dashes between those. But I think it's better for search engine optimization purposes, to pick whatever your target keyword is for this blog post, whatever you want to show up in search results for. So for this one, I would say WordPress comment span, just something a little bit shorter, more concise. And it gets to the point about what this blog post is about. Okay, so and then once you're ready, you can go ahead and click on Publish, confirm that you want to publish it. And now like I said, we have two blog posts on our page or on our website. So let's go ahead and look at that what that So let's go ahead and look at that what that looks like. We have the same layout, but now we see the content in the middle. So we have how to stop WordPress comments on or how to stop spam comments on WordPress, we get a little blurb about it. But if they want to read more about that they can click read more. And then same thing down here, a little bit of an overview of what that blog post is about. So let's let's let's click on read more and see what this looks like you get the full page, the full content of the blog post here. So that looks really good. What I'd like to do is to change the way that this date shows up here. So I want to say like published on January 23 2021 by Tony or something along those lines. So we can do that. You can customize the layout of your blog posts, individual blog posts. So in order to do that, we can go back to our dashboard for Blogger and go into the layout section again, in in here, something that we didn't look out, we didn't look at layout yet. But if you go down here, you can see kind of how the structure of your page is laid out. Obviously, that's because we're in the Layout section. But we want to look at the Blog Post section here and edit that and that'll bring up this other window here. And like I was saying we could change the way that the metadata associated with this blog post shows up and all blog posts for that matter. So I want to click on by Tony florita. And then the date. I can say by sort of say by Tony florita On the date that the blog post was public and you can change that if you want to pick a different structure. So really, it is highly customizable. And then you have all these other options to turn on or off, like share buttons and reactions and stuff like that. So we won't go through them. But I just want to show you that this exists. And you can use it. So click on Save. And we will see what that looks like now. So before it just had the date now it says by Tony florita. Oops, I put an extra y in there, my bad. Let me let me modify that one more time. And then it will look good. So we'll save that via the blog. So by Tony flurried up on January 23 2021. Okay, so like I was saying, there's two different types of content that you can make. One is a blog post, and one is a page. So just like before, I'm going to add a page or two to the website. To do that, you can click on Pages, and then add a new page. And very similar, very similar structure here, you got your title, your content, and then all your publishing options over here. So let me pause again, I'll add some content here. And then I'll catch back up with you when I'm ready. Okay, guys, I'm back. And I created an about page, which we'll take a look at in a second. But you can see that here, we have our about page called about Tony. The thing here is if we go to our website, by default, there is no way, no easy way to access our about page. Our archive is only dealing with our blog posts. So what we want to do is edit our sidebar over here to add a link to the about page. And we can do that. If we get back out of here and go into the layout section again. And like I was saying, this is the structure of how your, your your website is laid out, like the main skeleton structure of it, I guess, I want to do is add a gadget to the sidebar bottom section. So right now we have our archive, like we saw labels, which there's not much there in the report abuse. And we can, you know, in here, if you don't want to show this, you can get rid of this, turn it off. And if you don't want labels to show up, you can remove that altogether. But what we're gonna do here is add a gadget, which and they're just using the terminology gadget here, just like a section to your website, and I'm going to add the pages section, okay. And give it a title if what pages you want to show on your sidebar. So we can have a link to the homepage, and we can have a link to the about Tony page. Then you can pick whatever order you want them to show up in. I'll keep I'll keep the default order here. And then when we click on save, we can go back to look at our blog. And now we'll have those links to those pages. So the homepage will take us back home here in the about page for about Tony will take us to our about page and this is kind of what that looks like. We got headers, content and the a couple pictures in here. So that's that's my about page. Um, yeah, so I think at this point, this is, this is all I'm gonna show you about blogger.com. Like I said, it's a completely free way to make a website online. You can add any type of content you want blog posts, pages, pictures, all that stuff, you get your domain name, and the hosting is free. So if you want to check it out.
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