Making the most of your Blogger blog isn’t easy for the beginning blogger. There is a lot to learn and know. It has come to my attention that there are those of you out there that may have become a little confused as to where you might find some of the functionality that I wrote about in my help series on Blogger.com. Allow me to correct that by providing a detailed list of all the pages found in the blogger administration interface.
Posting Menu
Under the Posting menu are the pages that allow you to manage aspects of your posts. Such as creation, editing and moderating comments. You can learn more about each one of these with the following help lessons.
- Create Post
- Edit Posts
- Moderate Comments – There wasn’t a lesson written on this page since there is not much to it. If you are moderating comments, you’ll see them here and can approve or decline them from here.
Settings Menu
The settings menu contains items that allow you, the blog operator, to customize your blog and establish settings and properties of your blog.
- Basic Settings
- Publishing Settings
- Formatting Settings
- Comment Settings
- Archiving Settings
- Site Feed Settings
- Email Settings
- OpenID Settings
- Permissions Settings
Layout Menu
The layout menu items concern themselves with the template used by your blog, the items found within the templates such as widgets and doo-dads, as well as the colors and basic font settings used on your blog.
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That is what I hope will happen for others. Glad to see you kicking around again Adam!
There certainly are a lot of ways you can get confused with Blogger. Hopefully your series will help to alleviate some of the confusion.
Thanks Dana, I’ve added an entry to my feedback widget so it will keep tickling me. There isn’t a post I could write that will tell you specifically step by step, it will take some doing.
Perhaps if I take your template, perform what you need done, and document the steps….perhaps that will be a good post for others too.
Gary, yeah, the table of contents needs the images to make the association a little better known.
This is a great summary of all the lesson’s you have put together for us newbies to using the blogger plateform, and as such, THIS particular posting makes for a good reference tool and should be saved for on going and future use by us newbies. (copy and save good people).—and many thanks Wayne, ya did good kid (lol). NOW, so when do we get that lesson on expanding and playing with our headers that Dana is huffing and puffing about?
Had to leave a comment even though all I can say is “you da bomb” and I will wait as long as it takes you to write a post on how I can EXPAND my header (photo) all the way across my blog. Kinda like everyone else is doing and I’m the last one to try.