Starting a new Blogger Webpage

 

Blogger Beginner's Tutorial

This helpful tutorial will show you how to create a new Blogger website in Steps 1 and 2. If you want to change the layout of your blog, you can also follow Step 3. We are very grateful to Rebecca Cristaldi, a lecturer in the Media and Performing Arts departments, who wrote this guide.

STEP 1 – Gmail Account

• You will need to set up a Gmail account in order to access blogger.com

• Make sure you keep your username and password somewhere safe so you don’t forget it!!! 

• Once you have a Gmail account you can use this to log in to blogger.com

STEP 2 – Create a new blog

• Your new blog name will be your name followed by  ‘Music Blog’ – 

(e.g. Paul’s Music Blog)

• Your new blog url needs to be one word and all lower case. It will be your full name followed by ‘coulsdonmusic’ – e.g. paultornbohmcoulsdonmusic.blogspot.co.uk 

• Once you have entered your name and

url, click on Simple option under Template section (you can change this later)

• Then Click  on the ‘create blog’ button

Step 3 - Customising your blog

• Once your blog has been created, you should see the following screen – under the first image, click on Customise

• From this screen, you can change the template (we recommend using 'Awesome Inc. Artsy')

• šYou can change the background:

• šYou can change the layout of the page:

• šOr you can change the font and font colours:

• šOnce you have finished customising – click ‘Apply to blog’ then ‘back to blogger’