Click Layout. Study each link at the left.
Start with a base theme and customize your background, layout, colors, fonts and more
Select the theme you wish to use and follow instructions.
You will see above the font size etc I have selected.
Add, remove, edit gadgets on your blog.
View screen shot see how boxes are ticked.
Then Click SAVE. Repeat this with every individual setting.
Click and drag to rearrange gadgets.
To change columns and widths, use the Theme Designer.
Click Gadgets Show About Me
Display information about yourself to your visitors.
Configure (Click)
About me Go through the list and explore the options you see.
Click Show Follow by Email
Make it easy for visitors to subscribe to email delivery when you publish a post.
Configure (Click)
Work your way through all links and clicking the Configure tab.
Configure Archive
At far right click orange tab apply to blog.
How to return to your blog click the Blog App in your G Mail Google account.
Click and set up your settings.
Click all blue writing Edit and the blue writing Learn More. View Screen shot below.
Add your site welcome message.
Turn on HTTPS for your blog
If you want visitors to access your blog over HTTPS, you can turn on HTTPS and HTTPS redirect.
There are three main benefits to using HTTPS instead of HTTP to access your blog:
It helps check that your visitors open the correct website and aren’t being redirected to a malicious site.
It helps detect if an attacker tries to change any data sent from Blogger to the visitor.
It adds security measures that make it harder for other people to listen
to your visitors’ conversations, track their activities, or steal their
information.
Meta tags
Create, edit, or delete a post.You can write, edit, or delete posts and drafts at any time.
Click New Post.
Create the post.
Optional: To see how your post will look, click Preview.
To save your post without publishing it, click Save. To publish your post, click Publish.
Use email to post to your blog! Turn on posting by email
Sign in to Blogger.
In the top left, click the Down arrow Down Arrow.
Click the blog.
In the left menu, click Settings and then Email.
Next to "Posting using email," type a unique word to create an email address to send posts to.
Choose whether to publish emailed posts immediately or to save them as drafts and publish them yourself later.
In the top right corner, click Save settings.
Edit a post
Sign in to Blogger.
Under the name of the blog, click Posts.
Point to the post you want to edit.
Click Edit.Make y our changes.
Optional: To see how your post will look, click Preview.
For posts that have already been published, click Update or Revert to
draft. For posts that haven’t been published yet, click Publish or Save.
Delete a post! Sign in to Blogger.
In the top left, click the Down arrow Down Arrow.
On the dashboard, click the blog.
Point to the post you want to delete.Click Delete.
Format a post
Choose how HTML and line breaks are handled in your posts
Sign in to Blogger.
Under the name of the blog, click Posts.
Click the title of the post you want to edit.
On the right side, click Post settings and then Options.
Choose how HTML code is displayed.
Choose how line breaks are handled.
Click Done.
For posts that have already been published, click Update or Revert to
draft. For posts that haven’t been published yet, click Publish or Save.
Add a Read More link
Sign in to Blogger.
In the top left, click the Down arrow Down Arrow.
Click the blog.
Click the post.
In the composer box, place your cursor where you want to put the "Read More" link.
Click Insert jump break.
Create a post template
Sign in to Blogger.
In the top left, click the Down arrow Down Arrow .
Click the blog.
In the left menu, click Settings and then Posts, comments and sharing.
Under "Posts," next to Post Template, click Add.
Add your template.
In the top right corner, click Save settings.
Content to avoid adding to your blog
Avoid adding content hosted by someone else without their consent.
Avoid using copyrighted materials.
Avoid adding content that violates our content policy. This includes,
but is not limited to, explicit imagery posted without the subject’s
consent and hateful, violent, or crude content.
