- Create New Post
- Select a title for your Post
- Start typing
1. From the Blogger Dashboard (that place that lists your blogs and your reading lists), you should see your new blog.
Ignore the New Blog button--that's there if you want to start a whole new blog, not for adding to your existing one.
To the right of the blog title, are several buttons. The orange Pencil icon button allows you to start a new posting. The Pages icon button takes you to a listing of postings you have created. The drop down menu on that button takes to other options we will talk about in the future. The View Blog button takes to a new tab where you can see your blog as it exist out there in real time.
Start a new posting by clicking on the orange Pencil icon button.
2. At the top of the next screen will be a large orange B button. That takes you back to your Blogger Dashboard.
Beneath that, you will see your Blog title, the word Post, and a text box with the words Post title, and then several buttons: Publish, Save, Preview, Close
Underneath is a row of text editing buttons similar to those seen in common word processing programs. Be sure to keep the Compose button selected unless you are familiar with using HTML to develop web pages.
Beneath that is a large text box where you will type the body of your text.
On the far right are several additional options under a drop menu titled Post settings. We will get to those in a later posting.
Start your first posting by giving it a title by typing over the words Post title. DON'T click any of the buttons to the right just yet.
3. Now, place your cursor in the large text block and start typing. Don't worry about how it looks at first, just get your thoughts down on the page. Once you have what you want, or at least a first draft, click on the Save button at the top.
If you want to see what your blog now looks like, click on the Preview button. It opens a new tab with a Preview (written across the top corner) of your blog posting. This is how it will look to your readers (minus the Preview ribbon of course.
No one can see your posting at this point, unless you have clicked the Publish button. For now, select the Save button to save the posting in draft form.
Notes: Signing back in will take you first to the Google main page. To get to Blogger, look for the More drop down button on the black menu bar. Click that and select Blogger. This takes you to the Blogger Dashboard.
Coming up Next: Edit What You Wrote
Ignore the New Blog button--that's there if you want to start a whole new blog, not for adding to your existing one.
To the right of the blog title, are several buttons. The orange Pencil icon button allows you to start a new posting. The Pages icon button takes you to a listing of postings you have created. The drop down menu on that button takes to other options we will talk about in the future. The View Blog button takes to a new tab where you can see your blog as it exist out there in real time.
Start a new posting by clicking on the orange Pencil icon button.
Beneath that, you will see your Blog title, the word Post, and a text box with the words Post title, and then several buttons: Publish, Save, Preview, Close
Underneath is a row of text editing buttons similar to those seen in common word processing programs. Be sure to keep the Compose button selected unless you are familiar with using HTML to develop web pages.
Beneath that is a large text box where you will type the body of your text.
On the far right are several additional options under a drop menu titled Post settings. We will get to those in a later posting.
Start your first posting by giving it a title by typing over the words Post title. DON'T click any of the buttons to the right just yet.
3. Now, place your cursor in the large text block and start typing. Don't worry about how it looks at first, just get your thoughts down on the page. Once you have what you want, or at least a first draft, click on the Save button at the top.
If you want to see what your blog now looks like, click on the Preview button. It opens a new tab with a Preview (written across the top corner) of your blog posting. This is how it will look to your readers (minus the Preview ribbon of course.
No one can see your posting at this point, unless you have clicked the Publish button. For now, select the Save button to save the posting in draft form.
Notes: Signing back in will take you first to the Google main page. To get to Blogger, look for the More drop down button on the black menu bar. Click that and select Blogger. This takes you to the Blogger Dashboard.
Coming up Next: Edit What You Wrote
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