How to create a website on blogger

 

show you how to create

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a free website or blog with blogger.com

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now this is a 100 free solution you get

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free website hosting and you even get a

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free domain name a sub domain so it'll

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be something that you

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choose dot blogspot.com

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and i'm going to show you how to not

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only set this up but do some

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customization so it fits your needs

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all right let's go ahead and get on into

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the tutorial here

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to start off simply just go to

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blogger.com

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and with your google account you can

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click on create your blog

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we're gonna go ahead and sign into your

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google account i'm gonna use this one

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right here

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and uh the first thing i'm gonna do is

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choose the name for your blog so i'm

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gonna call mine

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tony teaches

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tech go ahead and click on next and then

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like i was saying you get your free

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domain name url so it's going to be

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something.blogspot.com i'm going to see

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if i can do tony

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teaches tech.blogspot.com

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that's available so i'm going to click

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on next

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confirm your display name so this is

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me as the author of this blog so i'm

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going to use my actual name

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which is tony florida

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some people would say tony florida and

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we'll click finish

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so that is it until that's all you need

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to do really to

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set up the blog now um we'll go ahead

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and get rid of this message

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like i was saying we're going to do some

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customization of this blog and what

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we're going to do first is

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choose a theme okay so right now let's

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let's take a look at what this looks

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like by default

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you get a blog that looks like this

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pretty decent right you got

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your profile over here not too much

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going on here in your header

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and there's no content obviously at this

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point so

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let's go into the beam section here

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and what's cool about blogger.com is the

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fact that you can choose

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any one of these pre-built themes okay

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so you got

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contempo various shades of that uh

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down here soho it's a little bit

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different

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more more visual

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more visual than this one

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this one looks like it's geared towards

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potentially food bloggers

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this one's a little bit more corporate

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feeling so yeah you can come through

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here and look at

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what theme you like most out of all

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these

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uh i'm going to go with the contempo

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light theme and that might be already

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what i have but

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what i want to do here is customize this

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okay

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and this is where we're gonna get into

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like what i do on here on the screen

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might be different for whatever you need

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to do but i just wanna show you the

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general concepts about how you can work

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with the

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blogger.com in order to customize it so

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i don't like this image i'm going to

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change the image to something else

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and this is going to be like a tech

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technical blog so i want to

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have something along that pattern so

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i'm going to pick this technology

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category and see if anything looks cool

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in here

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and i kind of like this um this digital

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bits and bytes ones and zeros so i'm

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going to use that for my background

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instead

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so i got my title here a nice background

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and it so first glance here it doesn't

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seem like you can customize a lot right

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you only have the background advance and

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gadgets but

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what a lot of people don't realize is

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under the drop down here under the

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advanced section you can actually

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customize every

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single or pretty much every single

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element on this page so

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the text of the page the background

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which we just did how the links look and

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i'll just click on a couple of these

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link color link color the color of the

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link when you visited it

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the color of the link when you hover

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over it so we're not going to go through

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all of these but i just want to

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make you aware that they exist the one

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the only thing i'm going to change is

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the width of

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my content itself so i tend to prefer

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with my websites having

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a narrower width so that'll be this

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right here we can just slide this

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to be wider or narrower so i like to and

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you'll see

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when we add content to the website

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you'll see how this looks so

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i'll do something like that we can

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always come back in here and change it

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if we need to

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um but in general this is where a lot of

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the customization

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happens now you'll see uh well first of

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all let's

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save this so down here in the bottom

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right hand corner we can save this

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um you'll see that you have a profile

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here it's blank we want to customize

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that as well so

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let's get back out of here and look at

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our blog right now

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and i'm going to visit the profile it's

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it's blank obviously at this point but

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in order to edit it we can click on edit

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profile here

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and what we want to change in here that

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the main things

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is a picture okay so let's pick a

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picture what we want to show up

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as uh the the icon above your name so

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i'm gonna pick

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my logo for my website and upload that

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to blogger.com

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and that's that looks good and then the

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other thing you want to change in here

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and

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you can feel free to no i don't think a

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lot of this is public

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on your website unless somebody clicks

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into it perhaps but

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the one thing that we want to focus on

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is your introduction because that is

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something that's going to show up on

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your blog so

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i have something over here that i just

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wrote real quick a little blurb about

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what my blog is about so i'm going to

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put that in here

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and again you can fill out all the other

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sections but these are the most

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important ones let's go ahead and save

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that profile

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and now when that's finished we can go

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look at the blog again

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uh let's get out of here look at the

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blog you'll see now that we have our

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logo up here

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and a little blurb about our website and

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we still have the link to the profile so

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that looks good okay um

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let's go into here now we're gonna

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look at adding blog posts okay which

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have like a date and a time associated

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with them and pages which are more

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evergreen they pages so that

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i think something that a lot of people

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have difficulty understanding is the

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difference between a blog post and a

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page so a page

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is just something that exists on your

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website like a contact page or an about

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me page

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something like that that's more

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permanent and blog posts are

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new topics that you whatever your blog

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is about so for me it would be

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technology topics so

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let me add a couple blog posts and i

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won't i won't make you sit through this

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i'm just going to use

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actual blog posts and bring them in but

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let me fast forward through this part

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and i'll catch back up if you want to

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have a couple blog posts on here oh and

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actually i just realized that i didn't i

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should probably show you how to make a

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blog post so

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once you click on posts uh click on new

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post

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and then you'll have your your editor

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here um

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just like microsoft word or any other

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word processing that you use so

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you can give your your blog post a title

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call it hello world

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and then you can put your content down

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here so

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hey this is my first

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blog post

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stuff like that i changed all the the

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themes are the the customization

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do bold do italics uh make it centered

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if you want to

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so yeah just like a typical um word

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processor so

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like i was saying let me add some good

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looking content and then i'll catch back

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up with you when it's ready okay i'm

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back i added one blog post and i'm about

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to add the second one here

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um looks pretty good you got your

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headers your content all that stuff

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the one thing i did want to point out

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here is the fact that

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i highly recommend for the permalink for

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your blog post

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to change it from automatic to a custom

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permalink so

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when it's automatic we're looking at the

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url being

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your your domain name slash the year

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the month and then they pretty much take

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the title my title is how to stop spam

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comments on wordpress and just add

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dashes between those

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but i think it's better for search

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engine optimization purposes

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to pick whatever your target keyword is

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for this blog post whatever you want to

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show up in search results for so for

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this one i would say

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wordpress comment

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spam just something a little bit shorter

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more concise

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and it gets to the point about what this

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blog post is about

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okay so and then once you're ready you

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can go ahead and click on publish

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confirm that you want to publish it and

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now like i said we have two blog posts

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on our page or

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on our website so let's go ahead and

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look at that what that looks like

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we have the same layout but now we see

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the content in the middle

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so we have how to stop wordpress

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comments on or how to stop spam comments

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on wordpress

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we get a little blurb about it but if

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they want to read more about that they

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can click read more

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and then same thing down here a little

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bit of an overview of what that

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blog post is about so let's let's let's

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click on read more and see what this

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looks like you get the full page

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uh the full content of the blog post

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here

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so that looks really good um what i like

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to do is to

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change the way that this date shows up

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here so i want to say like

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published on january 23 2021

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by tony or something along those lines

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so we can do that you can customize

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the layout of your blog post individual

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blog posts so

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in order to do that we can go back to

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our dashboard for blogger and go into

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the layout section again and in here

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something that we didn't look out well

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we didn't look at layout yet but if you

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go down here you can see kind of how the

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structure of your page

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is laid out obviously that's because

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we're in the layout section but we want

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to look at the blog

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post section here and edit that and

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that'll bring up this other

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window here and like i was saying we

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could

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change the way that the metadata

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associated with this

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blog post shows up in all blog posts for

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that matter so

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i want to click on buy tony florida and

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then the date

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i can say buy so to say by tony florida

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on the date that the blog post was

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published and you can change that if you

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want to

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pick a different structure so really it

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is highly customizable and then you have

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all these other

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options to turn on or off like share

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buttons and reactions and stuff like

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that so

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um we won't go through them but i just

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want to show you that this exists

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and you can use it so click on save and

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we will see what that looks like now so

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before

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it just had the date now it says by tony

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florida oops

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i put an extra y in there my bad let me

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uh

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let me modify that one more time and

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then

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it will look good so we'll save that via

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the blog

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so by tony florida on january 23 2021

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okay so like i was saying um there's two

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different types of

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content that you can make one is a blog

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post and one is a page

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so just like before i'm going to add a

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page or two to the website

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to do that you can click on pages and

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then add a new page

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and very similar very similar structure

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here you got your title your content and

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then all your publishing

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options over here so let me pause again

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i'll add some content here and then i'll

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catch back up with you when i'm ready

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okay guys i'm back

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and i created an about page which we'll

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take a look at in a second

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but you can see that here we have our

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about page

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called about tony the thing here is if

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we go to our website

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by default there is no way no easy way

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to access

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our about page um our archive is only

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dealing with our blog post so what we

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want to do is

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edit our sidebar over here to add a link

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to the about page and we can do that um

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if we get it back out of here and go

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into the layout section again

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and like i was saying this is the

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structure of how your uh

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your your website is laid like the main

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skeleton structure of it i guess um

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what we want to do is add a gadget to

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the

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sidebar bottom section so right now we

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have our archive like we saw

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labels which there's not much there and

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the report abuse

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we can you know in here if you don't

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want to show this you can get rid of

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this

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turn it off and if you don't want labels

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to show up you can

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remove that all together but what we're

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going to do here is

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add a gadget which and they're just

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using the terminology gadget here

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just like a section to your website and

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i'm going to add the pages

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section okay and give it a title if you

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want

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but what you do in here is you can show

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what pages you want

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to um or you can choose what pages you

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want to show

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on your sidebar so we can have a link to

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the home page

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and we can have a link to the about tony

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page

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and you can pick whatever order you want

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them to show up in i'll keep i'll keep

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the default order here

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and then when we click on save

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we can go back to look at our blog and

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now we'll have those links to those

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pages so the home page will take

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us back home here and the about page for

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about tony will take us to our about

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page and this is

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kind of what that looks like we got

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headers content and the

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couple pictures in here so that's that's

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my about page

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um yeah so i think at this point this is

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uh this is all i'm going to show you

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about blogger.com

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like i said it's a completely free way

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to make a website

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online you can add any type of content

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you want blog posts pages pictures

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all that stuff you get your your domain

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name um and the hosting is free so

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if you want to check it out i got a link

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down in the description below to start

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or if you could just go directly to

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blogger.com that's equally as good

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if you want to check out some other