How to create a blog on Blogger

Blogger.com is the most commonly used blogging platform. What makes it a hit with the bloggers of all ages, groups and communities is its  'Ease-of-Use'. It will be a foolish to say that a beginner cannot find his/her way through the site www.blogger.com.Nevertheless, for those who stumble and find it difficult to create a blog on blogger, here we go with the easiest blogger tutorial.

 Here’s what you need to do to create your Blog.

1. Open Blogger.com
2. Login using your Google account. If you have a login ID for Picasa, Gmail, Google docs etc use the same. If not, click on Get Started and create an account.  On the page that opens click ‘CREATE YOUR BLOG NOW”
3. Choose your Blog Title and address. It’s easier to remember if you enter the same name for both the Blog Title and Blog Address fields. The URL would always end with blogspot.com. It’s preferable to keep the blog address short. Click on the check the availability link to see if the blog URL available. Try different combinations till you get a message saying “The blog address is available” and then click continue.
4.  The next set of screens is for designing the look and feel of the blog. This can be changed later on. So, choose a default and click on continue. Your blog is now ready. Click on “Start Blogging” to open the post editor.
5. Key in your thoughts with a suitable title and click on Publish Post.  Voila!! Your first blog is out for the world to read

No matter what people say, by far, blogger is the most commonly used blogging platform. So go ahead and give it a try. Even if you don’t like it much, you learnings here can be put to use on other blogging platforms as well.