I decided to move blogger-beginner-guide.blogspot.com to a self hosted custom domain beginner-blogger.com because it was a bit pointless having both blogs and updating neither. Funnily enough as I was going through the process of moving, Google was doing its own updating of page rank, so my PR0 Blogspot was updated to a PR2 just as I moved it to this site which is a PR 1. I am not sure how this will change or not but it will be interesting to see. I know PR does not necessarily count for much but I would like to see how combining a PR1 and PR2 site works out.
Archive for category Basic Blog Setup
Common HTML Element Tags
Feb 23
What are Elements and Tags?
Elements are any matching pair of opening and closing tags or single tags that do not require a closing tag, they are the little symblos you will see before and after content in your html document
How to Hyperlink
Feb 23
How to make links in your blog
Knowing how to arrange your links in your blog is an important part of blogging and one of the very basic things you will need to know
Get a free blog header
Here are a few of the best sites to get a free header for your blog (always check the copyright information)
- Smashing magazine (where the header for this blog came from)
Keep Track of Your Visitors
Feb 19
Using Google Analytics
There are many different ways for you to keep track of the visitors to your blog, but by far one of the easiest ways to do this is with Google Analytics
New- Blogger for dummies
Feb 16
Blogger for dummies
You may already be familiar with the “for dummies” series of books, the newest book in this series is “Blogger for dummies”.
Ideal for learning your way around the blogger platform with lots of helpful tips on how to customize your blog, set up ads, setting up your feeds and promoting your blog to readers
What is HTML?
Feb 15
Html stands for Hyper Text Markup Language
You don’t have to know html to build your blog, but a little knowledge of html certainly helps and can make a real difference to the appearance of your blog.
14 steps to start a blog
Feb 6
Naming your Blog
Let’s face it, there are millions of blogs out there,so what’s going to make yours unique? you need to pick something that stands out and that is descriptive.
With either Blogger or Wordpress when you set up your new blog there will be a choice of template for you to use, to start with just pick the one that appeals the most to you.