How to start posting in blog?

In fact to start your first post, do not start from the 'START BLOGGING' option as in the last chapter, last picture. Instead, just close that window.

Again go to http://www.blogger.com/ and sign in. You will get a view as you see in the picture below.

First what you see in the left side is your profile. you can view it, edit it as you like. You can also add your favourite photo in your profile.

Now you see as 'Manage Blogs'. Under that you see the title of your blog, which you gave as flowers. Under that you see 5 tabs. If you want to post in your blog, click 'NEW POST' button and start posting. If you want to edit the post which you have already posted, click the 'Edit Posts' link. And the other two links, 'settings' and 'layout' we will see later. If you want to view your blog, click the link ' View Blog'. when yo click on the small squares near the 'View Blog' link, the blog opens in a new window.

When you click, 'NEW POST' you get a page as above. There are three tabs here, POSTING, SETTIGS, LAYOUT, and the other one 'VIEW BLOG'. In those three tabs, there are some sub tabs. Under 'POSTING' tab, you can see three tabs as 'Create', 'Edit Posts', 'Comment Moderation'. It opens default in 'Create' tab enabling you to create post. You have to click on the 'Edit Posts' tab to edit your posts. 'Comment Moderation' is a link to a tab in 'Settings'. So we can leave it now.

Now to create a post, in the column for titles, give a title for your posts. What we give are all editable later. You can choose your desired font, choose size, colour, and hyperlink your texts to some sites and align of your choice. You can insert, pictures or videos into your posts. There is a small icon near the tick mark, in the picture you see above. And in the right side you can see two tabs as : 'Edit Html', and 'Compose'. This is very important. I will tell about it later. Any way when you click Edit Html tab, you can see the Html view of your posting.

Near that, you can see a link as preview. Click upon that to see the preview of your post before posting. When you are viewing, it turns into 'Hide Preview', on clicking which, the preview disappears.

In the bottom you can see, Post options, which on clicking, expands, to show you whether to allow or not readers Comments. You can choose as you wish. Now you get the Post date and time. You can leave it as it is. How ever if you want to post on a pre-date, you can change it.

Now you see something as 'Labels for this post'. You need not enter anything in that. You can leave it blank. I will tell about labels, later.

If you want to publish your post for the readers' view, click on the red colour 'PUBLISH POST' button. If you want just to save your post and publish later, click on the blue button ' SAVE NOW'. How ever the post is auto saved every few minutes.

And if you want to return to the list of all the posting you have made so far in this particular blog, click on the 'Return to list of posts' link under the buttons.

Now out of three tabs, we have seen about the tab ' Posting'. Let us see about 'Page Elements', in the next chapter.

-Sumazla