Follow These Steps and Create a Blog Within Minutes!

Previously we compared “Hosted vs Independent Software”. It is clear that the Newbie should make use of “Hosted” blogs because most of the initial hard work and complexities have been taken care of.

Ideally one should consider beforehand exactly what the subject and purpose of your blog will be. We will ignore that at this stage because we are more interested in just starting!

One of the quickest ways to start is to use Google`s popular Blogger platform. Follow the steps outlined below and create your first blog. Almost all of these steps can be changed again later in case of mistakes (this suits me very well!)

1. Log on to www.blogger.com
2. If you have already signed up with Google previously, log in; otherwise click on “Create a blog”.
3. Enter your existing e-mail address (twice).
4. Enter a (new) password (twice).
5. Enter a”Display name” which is used to sign posts you make on your blog later.
7. Type in the verification code if required.
8. Click on “Continue”.
9. Give your blog a title (“Test” will do as you can change this later).
10. Enter a blog address (URL) and click on “Check availability”. If the proposed address is not available, try a new one. Hyphens can be used e.g. “my-blog-test”.
11. You need not accept that which is available! Try more addresses until you are satisfied because the URL you accept here is permanent.
12. Type in the verification code if required.
13. Skip the advanced options (leave for later) and click “Continue”.
14. Choose a template by clicking on it (this can be changed later) and click “Continue”.

Your Blog Has Been Created and you are on the Internet!

For your convenience I have also included a video which shows the steps described above.

(I will show you how to capture a video at a later stage).