Chapter 12. Creating Your Own Blog with Google's Blogger

In This Chapter:

Create a Blogger Account

Create a Blog Entry

Create a Blogger Profile

Customize Your Blog Settings

Change Your Blog Template

Create a Site Feed

Power Up Your Blogging with Blogger Add-ins

About Advanced Blogger Features

Blogging, the act of writing a kind of online diary, has become a hobby for many and a preoccupation for some. Blogs enable you to write about anything you want, whether it be gardening, sleeping, playing guitar, politics…name it, and you can write about it.

Blogging has become part of the United State's political discourse, and has become extremely influential in campaigns and normal daily political life. But you don't have to be a honcho in order to blog. Anyone can do it.

Google's Blogger is probably the easiest way to create your own blog. It's free, it's simple, and it won't take you long to get started. Spend as much or as little time as you want; you can easily create a constantly changing blog if you spend only 10 minutes a day. Blogger is a Google-owned website. You don't need to download any software to use it to create your own blog. Just visit the site and follow the steps outlined in this chapter.

If you've always wanted to join the blog world, this chapter will show you how to do it.