I am here to give you the quick and easy way to write your own website. Get ready for about 30 - 40 minutes of learning which you will help you, your business and your website become a greater resource for your own self, your friends and your customers!
Each of my directions will come with a sample image for you to follow along, and of course I am always there if you need help while in the process so feel free to contact me anytime for help!
The first step is to learn how to blog 'posts' to your website. This is easy. After you have accepted the invitation to blog on your new website from Google's Blogger, log yourself into the online software.
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You should automatically be brought to your dashboard, and if you have several blogs like me you will see a listing for all of them. Click on the link for 'New Post' and we will get on to the next step.
Now you should see the post form. Just fill out what you want to say ie: the title for the post, and the body of text. You can also add photos here with the correct html tags (more on html image tags in a minute).
When posting images, it is of UTMOST importance to get the code for the images correct, or your entire post will at the least not show the image and at the worst mess up your entire page! So, when you copy the code from flickr (or wherever), make sure you get all-of-it. The code is in a 'Share This' drop-down menu on the top right, the code is in a drop-down link called 'Embed it'.
Once you have written everything you want to say and added any picture links you like, then it is time to post your hard work! Hit the "Publish" button and give it a minute to work...
You might see this page, just please be patient. Worst case scenario, you will have to log out of blogger and then log back in later to publish when it is not so busy.. sometimes blogger gets a headache..
OK, now you should eventually see this page which mean your page has published to your website. You should now go check to make sure it looks right.
Viola! You should see a brand new post like this!
If it doesn't look right, check back to your blogger page and click to 'Edit Posts'; See if you can find the code error; it is most likely to be in the html for the image. Try copying the code again and then republishing.
If you still can't get it, contact me anytime...Good Luck!
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