Blogger Getting Started Guide for Teachers & Staffs of SK St Stephen

Blogger Getting Started Guide

Blogger Getting Started Guide

How to publish a blog post

How to create and edit pages

Manage comments on your blog

Import and export your blog

To start using Blogger, simply sign in with your Google Account. (If you use Gmail, Google Groups, or orkut, you already have an account.) If you don't have a Google Account yet, you can create one now.

Entering St Stephen's site

To start a post in St Stephen's site, visit the Blogger homepage, enter your username and password, and click Sign in.
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Write your post

Once you've signed in to Blogger, you'll see your dashboard with your list of blogs. Here's what you need to do:

1. Click the orange pencil icon to write a new post, and enter anything you want to share with the world.
2. Next, you'll see the Post Editor page. Start by giving your post a title (optional), then enter the post itself:
   
3. When you're done, click the Preview button at the top to make sure it's ready to go, and then click the Publish button to publish your post.

Add an image

You can add an image from your computer or the Web to your blog. Click the image icon in the Post Editor toolbar. A window appears prompting you to browse for an image file on your computer, or enter the URL of an image on the Web.

Once you've selected your image, you can then choose a layout to determine how your image will appear in your post:

• The 'Left', 'Center', and 'Right' options allow you to customize the way your blog text will flow around your image.
• The 'Image size' options will determine how large the image will appear within your post.

Click UPLOAD IMAGES to add your image, and then click DONE when the notification window appears telling you that 'Your image has been added.' Blogger will then return you to the post editor, where you'll see your image ready to be published to your blog.

Add a video

To add a video to your blog post, click the film strip icon in the Post Editor toolbar above where you compose your blog text. A window appears prompting you to 'Add a video to your blog post.'
Click Browse to select the video file from your computer that you'd like to upload. Note that Blogger accepts AVI, MPEG, QuickTime, Real and Windows Media files and that your video must be less than 100MB in size.
Before uploading your video, add a title in the 'Video Title' box and agree to the Terms and Conditions (you'll only have to do this the first time that you upload a video with Blogger). Then click UPLOAD VIDEO.
While your video uploads, you'll see a placeholder in the post editor showing where your video will appear. You'll also see a status message below the post editor letting you know that your upload is in progress. Depending on the size of your video, this usually takes about five minutes. When it is complete, your video will appear in the post editor.

Blogger's post editor

Blogger's post editor has three modes:

• Compose: a wysiwyg mode where you manipulate text with formatting buttons
• Edit HTML: a raw mode where you edit the html manually
• Preview: renders a full-body preview of the post, including its Title, links and images

To switch between these modes, simply click the appropriate link:

Features, from left-to-right:

• Undo
• Redo
• Font
• Font size
• Headings
• Bold
• Italic
• Strikethrough
• Font color
• Background color
• Link
• Image
• Video
• Jumpbreak
• Justify text
• Ordered (numbered) list
• Unordered (bullet) list
• Blockquote
• Spell check
• Upload image
• Remove formatting from selection