All the changes you make can be viewed as you make them, before you finalize them and make them active on the blog itself. The template designer has simple controls for adjusting the width of different elements of your blog and shift around the layout of blog elements, and the advanced tab lets you change the colors of every last element of the blog. You'd have to manually remove the old version and insert the edited version. Note that if you edit an image with Picasa after it's been posted to your blog, the old version of the image on the blog will not show the edits. Picasa also has its own built-in image editing function, which will let you crop, resize and do other edits to an image before you post it to Blogger. Conversely, if you upload an image from your computer to your blog, it will be automatically placed in a Picasa folder. The Insert Image dialog lets you pull an image to the blog directly from one of your Picasa folders. Since Blogger is integrated with Picasa, you can actually handle all your images through your Picasa account. You can upload a photo from your computer or other device, or you can point to an image that's already on the web. You can adjust and resize the image in a standalone image editor like Photoshop or Gimp. There are a number of ways to prepare and retrieve an image. The New Post toolbar includes a button that inserts an image into the post. In the next section, we'll see how Blogger handles photos. You probably want to add more than text to your blog posts. There's a "delete" option available for every post and page in the admin panel. You can also change the behavior of this bar and how pages appear in it via the "Show pages as" dialog. This allows you to add an "About" page, an FAQ, or a series of category pages. If you go to the front page of your blog, you'll see a bar which has, depending on your settings and the design of the blog, a link called "Home." New pages will show up in that bar. The key difference is the tab bar at the top of your blog. That will open up a list of the current pages, and a button labeled "Add New Page." You can create and format the new page much like a post. From the admin panel, find the "Pages" link on the left side. You can even switch back and forth between the HTML and WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You get) editors.Īdding pages to a Blogger blog is similar to adding a post. If you'd rather format your post directly using HTML, that option is also available. Now let's talk about how to add posts and pages to your blog. You can also use another host for your Blogger blog this process is a bit more complicated, but Google offers step-by-step instructions. For a small registration fee ($10 per year), you can register your own domain so that your blog will appear at – and Google will still host your blog for free. So if you created a blog called "I Love Puppies," the web address would be. It will have a URL based on the name you choose for the blog with the following format. The default Blogger setting is for Google to host your blog for free. You may have to sign in and activate those services, and some of them may require separate sign-ups, but otherwise, they're fully integrated. Other Google products that are integrated with Blogger, such as Picasa or Google AdSense, will automatically be linked to your Blogger blog. From there, you can optionally link your Blogger blog to your Google+ account, or create a "limited profile" that will let you blog anonymously without being linked back to your identity via Google+. If you don't have a Google account, you'll need to make one. a Gmail address), then you just have to go to and activate Blogger on your account. If you already have a Google account (i.e.
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