Blogger Tutorial for Beginners [Updated 2022]
list of contents
• 1 Why Choose Blogger.com?
• 2 Blogger Tutorials for Beginners
• 3 Understanding the Menus on Blogger
• 4 Ways to Post Articles
• 5 Ways to Create Static Pages
• 6 Ways to Install Widgets
• 7 Ways to Change Blogger Templates
• 8 Ways to Install a Favicon
• 9 Ways to Change Blog Title with Logo
•10 Closing Blogger Tutorials
In this post, I will share a complete blogger tutorial for beginner bloggers who are learning to blog.
Blogger.com is a service to create a blog for free that is quite easy to use. In Indonesia, this blogger service is also known as Blogspot because the blog address used by blogger.com is blogspot.com
Although this blogger service is easy to use, beginners who are just learning to blog sometimes still find it complicated.
Well for that reason there is nothing wrong if I make this blogger tutorial specifically for beginner bloggers.
I hope that the blogger tutorial that I wrote below can enlighten beginner blogger friends who are just learning to blog on Blogger.com.
Why Choose Blogger.com?
Before I proceed to the blogger tutorial, my friend may be wondering:
Why use blogger.com, sir? there are other options.
Indeed, besides blogger.com there are actually many other blogging services that can be used, but most Indonesian Bloggers prefer blogger.com.
Here are some reasons:
• Because it's free hosting forever
• Easy to use, very suitable for beginners
• Quite complete features
• Can be used to make money from blogs
• Safe and Trusted because Blogger is one of Google's services
• A website with a blog structure will never go down because the blogger belongs to Google. So it is guaranteed and safe.
• Unlimited bandwidth, free to use as much as you like.
• Blog performance is always stable because the host is supported by Google
• No need to rent Web Hosting, because blogger provides it for free.
• Free domain forever using a subdomain extension, namely blogspot.com.
• Can custom TLD domains such as .com, .net, .online, .shop, and others.
• Strong security because it is connected to a Google account, so you don't have to worry about being hacked.
• Easy to use because there is no need to take care of SEO etc. because it has been provided by Google
• Blogger has free SSL facilities
• Large selection of free templates
• Easy to make, just visit blogger.com using your Gmail account
• And others…
Also read: Choose Blogger.com, WordPress.com, or WordPress.org?
Now proceed to the blogger tutorial. Please see below.
Blogger Tutorials for Beginners
If you don't have a blog, then the first thing you need to do is, of course, create a blog on blogger.com
How to create a blog on blogger.com is very easy.
What you need first is a Google account. I'm sure you already have a Google account.
If not, please create a Google account first. How to Read Here.
If the Google account is ready, just follow the steps below:
• First login to https://blogger.com using your Google account.
• After logging in, you need to fill in the profile name used for the blog
• Click " Continue to Blogger "
• Click “ New blog ” to create a new blog
• Enter the blog title and address, select a blog theme, then click “ Create a blog! "
• The blog is ready. To view your blog, just click the " View blog " button.
Understanding the Menus on Blogger
After you have successfully created a blog, then you need to understand the menus on blogger.com.
These menus are very important to understand because they can make it easier for you to manage your blog in the future.
The menus in blogger are located on the left of the dashboard.
Below is a full explanation of these menus:
• Posts
Menu to display a list of all articles on your blog
• Statistics
Menu to display your blog's statistics such as the number of visitors, the number of page views, the source of visitors, and so on.
• Comments
Menu to display all the list of comments that go to your blog.
• Menu page to create and display all the static Pages list on your blog. An explanation of static pages is below.
• Layout
Here is where you set your blog layout and also a place to install blog widgets such as the popular articles widget, or followers widget.
• Themes (previously called Templates) This
is the place to change your blog's template or theme. In addition, you can also edit your blog template directly on this menu.
• Settings
Place your blog settings. If you want to change the blog title, change the address, or change the blog language, this menu is the place.
In addition to the menus above, there is actually one more menu, it's just that the menu is not displayed by default for Indonesian-language blogs.
To find out what the menu is, please read this post.
How to Post Articles
After you have successfully created a blog, the next thing you need to do is start filling your blog with writing or posting articles.
How to post articles on Blogger itself can be said to be very easy. It's basically almost the same as writing an email.
If you are used to writing emails, then posting articles on Blogger is not a difficult thing to learn.
But if my friend has never written an email then that means my friend is really clueless. But don't worry because it's never too late to learn.
The following are the steps:
• First, you have to log in to " Blogger "
• If you are already logged in, now just click the “ New entry ” button :
• Next, you will be directed to the article editor page on blogger. Take a good look at the image below and its explanation:
Information :
1. Article title
2. Contents of the article
3. Menus to change text color, font size, upload images, and videos, etc.
4. Post format. Just choose to Compose for beginners
5. Post labels. Full explanation
6. Date the article was written
7. Permanent link.
8. The location of my friend when writing the article. not required
9. Several other options to choose from
10. Button to publish your article
11. Button to save the article to Draft
12. Preview post before publishing
• After you understand a little about the menus in the article editor on Blogger, then just write what you want to write.
• Click the “ Publish ” button when the article is finished.
• Now your writing is online and can be read by many people:
Well, it turns out that writing articles on bloggers is very easy, isn't it?
How to Create Static Pages
Static pages are basically almost like posts, only they have their own differences and functions.
One simple example of using this page feature is to create pages like About Me, My Contacts, Disclaimer, etc.
Here are some of the basic differences between Posts and Pages:
Post
•Featured on the front page of the blog
•Archived by date of publication
•Have a label, publish date, and author
•Devoted to frequently updated content
•Using the permalink URL format like this:
Page
•By default it is not displayed on the front page of the blog
•Not archived by date of publish
•No label, publish date, and author
•Dedicated to infrequently updated content
•Using a permalink URL format like this:
http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/p/page-name.html
Now to create this page the process is almost no different from posting articles on Blogger.
The following are the steps:
•Log in to your blog dashboard.
•Click the " Home "
•Click the " new page "
•Now all you have to do is fill in the title and content for your blog's static page
•If it is so, then just click the " Publish "
As already mentioned above, the page on Blogger by default is not displayed on the blog.
In addition, there are no clickable links that can lead to a static page that has been created.
To display the link to the page, you can use the Page Widget.
The following are the steps:
•Go to the menu " Layout "
•Click " Add a Gadget "
•Choose widget " Pages "
•Check the static page that you want to display
•If so, then just click " Save "
Now the static page link has appeared on your blog.
How to Install Widget
Widgets or blogger.com called Gadgets are content on a blog other than articles on a blog. This widget is usually located in the sidebar of the blog.
Widgets in the blog can be installed, removed, and also moved as desired. In addition, this widget is optional, it does not have to be installed on the blog. So my friend can create a blog without installing a widget at all.
The following are the steps to install a widget or gadget in Blogger:
•First, of course, log in to " Blogger "
•Once logged in, go to " Layout "
•Well here my friend can add a widget by clicking " Add a Gadget "
Blogger.com already provided several gadgets that are ready to be installed. Of course, my friend is not required to install everything. Just select the widgets you really need.
What widgets need to be installed?
Most beginner bloggers are usually too excessive in installing widgets on Blogger. Many think that the more widgets installed on the blog, the cooler the blog will be. In fact, however, the opposite is true.
The fewer widgets installed on the blog, the better. The reason is that if you install too many widgets, it will confuse visitors, but it will also make loading the blog longer.
The following are some recommended widgets that should be installed on the blog:
•Popular Entries Widget
•Label Widget
•Archive Widget
•Profile Widget
In addition to these widgets, one more widget is often used in bloggers, namely the HTML/JavaScript widget.
The function of this widget is to add a widget using HTML code as well as JavaScript. Generally used to install third-party widgets (widgets not from blogger.com) and also to install advertising banners.
How to Change Blogger Template
One of the cool features of a blogger is that we can change the template or appearance of our blog as desired.
At blogger.com, several default templates have been provided to choose from, besides that, you can also use third-party templates that are already scattered on the internet.
Well, most likely my friend will prefer to use a third-party template because the templates that have been provided by bloggers are generally ugly and too simple.
Then how do I change the template on my blog?
Please take a look below:
1. Searching for Blogger Templates
Now to change the blog template or theme with a third-party template, the first thing you need to do is find a blogger template to download.
There are lots of blogger template providers out there, tens or even hundreds, from free to paid ones.
To search for these template providers, simply search on Google with keywords like this: “Blogger Templates” or “Free Blogger Templates” or “Cool Blogger Templates” etc.
2. Extract the Template File
The template files that you download later are generally in .zip or .rar formats.
To install it on your blog, you need to extract the file.
The method is as shown below:
Once extracted, it will contain a file with the extension. XML, now that's the file that my friend will install later on to Blogger.
Here are the steps to install the template to the blog:
•Login to " Blogger "
•Click the " Themes "
•Click the menu icon (three dots)
•Click " Restore "
•Click " Upload "
•Select the template file that has been downloaded on your computer
Now please check your blog address to see if the template has been successfully installed or not.
After changing the template, you usually need to rearrange the widgets installed on the blog.
Well, that's roughly how to change the template in Blogger. It's really really easy. Don't make it complicated.
How to Install a Favicon
One of the little things you can do to make your blog a little cooler is to change the Favicon on your blog.
What is Favicon?
Favicon stands for Fav ORITE Icon is an image icon that appears in the address bar of a website. The favicon can also be referred to as a shortcut icon, website icon, URL icon, or bookmark icon.
By default, if you create a blog on Blogger, your blog will have a favicon in the form of the Blogger logo
So, that your blog looks more unique, you can replace the favicon with your own favicon.
Here's how:
• First, you have to prepare a square image with a size of no more than 100 Kilobyte. The image format can be any, .JPG, .PNG, or. ICO.
• If the image is ready, now login to blogger.com > Go to the “ Layout ” menu > Click “ Edit ” in the Favicon section :
• Click " Choose File " and select the favicon image that you have created.
• After that just click " Save "
After you have successfully installed a favicon on your blog, chances are when you check your blog, the favicon is still the blogger logo. This is natural because of the influence of the browser cache.
Please, my friend, can clear the browser cache to see the favicon changes.
How to Change Blog Title with Logo
Another thing that can be done to make your blog cooler is to replace the blog title with a logo.
Here are the steps on how to replace the title of your blog with a logo image:
•First, my friend must first create a logo to serve as the title of the blog.
•First login to your blog dashboard.
•After that go to " Layout "
•Click " Edit / Pencil Icon " in the Blog Title section
•Then just follow the instructions as shown in the image below:
1. Select the logo image file on your computer
2. Select " In addition to title and description "
3. Click " Save "
That's roughly how to replace the blog title with a logo image. Very simple and not complicated.
Blogger Tutorial Ending
Maybe this is the only blogger tutorial that I can share in this post.
The next step, my friend, is to read my post about SEO Techniques for Bloggers here.
-=Thank you=-
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