show you 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 a sub domain so it'll and i'm going to show you how to not only set this up but do some customization so it fits your needs all right let's go ahead and get on into to start off simply just go to and with your google account you can click on create your blog we're gonna go ahead and sign into your google account i'm gonna use this one and uh the first thing i'm gonna do is choose the name for your blog so i'm 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 teaches tech.blogspot.com that's available so i'm going to click confirm your display name so this is me as the author of this blog so i'm going to use my actual name some people would say tony florida and so that is it until that's all you need set up the blog now um we'll go ahead and get rid of this message like i was saying we're going to do some customization of this blog 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 you get a blog that looks like this pretty decent right you got your profile over here not too much going on here in your header and there's no content obviously at this let's go into the beam section here and what's cool about blogger.com is the any one of these pre-built themes okay contempo various shades of that uh down here soho it's a little bit 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 what theme you like most out of all uh i'm going to go with the contempo light theme and that might be already what i want to do here is customize this and this is where we're gonna get into like what i do on here on the screen might be different for whatever you need to do but i just wanna show you the general concepts about how you can work 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 and i kind of like this um this digital bits and bytes ones and zeros so i'm going to use that for my background so i 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 advance and what a lot of people don't realize is under the drop down here under the advanced section you can actually single or pretty much every single 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 color link color the color of the 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 my content itself so i tend to prefer a narrower width so that'll be this right here we can just slide this to be wider or narrower so i like to and when we add content to the website you'll see how this looks so i'll do something like that we can always come back in here and change it um but in general this is where a lot of happens now you'll see uh well first of save this so down here in the bottom right hand corner we can save this um you'll see that you have a profile here it's blank we want to customize let's get back out of here and look at 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 and what we want to change in here that is a picture okay so let's pick a picture what we want to show up as uh the the icon above your name so my logo for my website and upload that and that's that looks good and then the other thing you want to change in here you can feel free to no i don't think a on your website unless somebody clicks the one thing that we want to focus on is your introduction because that is something that's going to show up on i have something over here that i just wrote real quick a little blurb about what my blog is about so i'm going to and again you can fill out all the other sections but these are the most important ones let's go ahead and save and now when that's finished we can go uh let's get out of here look at the blog you'll see now that we have our and a little blurb about our website and we still have the link to the profile so let's go into here now we're gonna look at adding blog posts okay which have like a date and a 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 is just something that exists on your website like a contact page or an about something like that that's more permanent and blog posts are new topics that you whatever your blog is about so for me it would be let me add a couple blog posts and i won't i won't make you sit through this actual blog posts and bring them in but let me fast forward through this part and i'll catch back up if you want to have a couple blog posts on here oh and actually i just realized that i didn't i should probably show you how to make a once you click on posts uh click on new and then you'll have your your editor just like microsoft word or any other word processing that you use so you can give your your blog post a title and then you can put your content down stuff like that i changed all the the themes are the the customization do bold do italics uh make it centered so yeah just like a typical um word like i was saying let me add some good looking content and then i'll catch back up with you when it's ready okay i'm back i added one blog post and i'm about to add the second one here um looks pretty good you got your headers your content all that stuff the one thing i did want to point out i highly recommend for the permalink for to change it from automatic to a custom when it's automatic we're looking at the 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 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 spam just something a little bit shorter and it gets to the point about what this 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 website 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 we get a little blurb about it but if they want to read more about that they 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 uh the full content of the blog post so that looks really good um what i like 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 post individual in order to do that we can go back to our dashboard for blogger and go into the layout section again and in here something that we didn't look out well we didn't look at layout yet but if you go down here you can see kind of how the is laid out obviously that's because we're in the layout section but we want post section here and edit that and that'll bring up this other window here and like i was saying we change the way that the metadata blog post shows up in all blog posts for i want to click on buy tony florida and i can say buy so to say by tony florida on the date that the blog post was published and you can change that if you pick a different structure so really it is highly customizable and then you have options to turn on or off like share buttons and reactions and stuff like um 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 it just had the date now it says by tony i put an extra y in there my bad let me let me modify that one more time and it will look good so we'll save that via so by tony florida on january 23 2021 okay so like i was saying um there's two content that you can make one is a blog 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 and very similar very similar structure here you got your title your content and 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 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 called about tony the thing here is if by default there is no way no easy way our about page um our archive is only dealing with our blog post so what we edit our sidebar over here to add a link to the about page and we can do that um if we get it back out of here and go into the layout section again and like i was saying this is the your your website is laid like the main skeleton structure of it i guess um what we want to do is add a gadget to sidebar bottom section so right now we have our archive like we saw labels which there's not much there and we can you know in here if you don't want to show this you can get rid of turn it off and if you don't want labels remove that all together but what we're 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 you but what you do in here is you can show to um or you can choose what pages you on your sidebar so we can have a link to and we can have a link to the about tony and you can pick whatever order you want them to show up in i'll keep i'll keep 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 home page will take us back home here and the about page for about tony will take us to our about kind of what that looks like we got couple pictures in here so that's that's um yeah so i think at this point this is uh this is all i'm going to show you like i said it's a completely free way online you can add any type of content you want blog posts pages pictures all that stuff you get your your domain name um and the hosting is free so if you want to check it out i got a link down in the description below to start or if you could just go directly to blogger.com that's equally as good if you want to check out some other
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