How to Create a Blog?

There are many people who wish to express their feelings through words, comment on political happenings in their country, comment on social issues, and how about writing quality content about certain topics and earn money without any investment?

Yes, blogging is the very platform that helps you express yourself through writing and makes money for you for what you are interested in. Many people question: how to create a blog? Well, this article is particularly written to guide the readers about the basics of blogging.

What is a blog?

Literally, blog refers to an online notebook diary. Many of you already know what you write in your diary. Surely, you write something that you feel important to be safe. On the contrary, blog is a place, in other words, a platform that allow you to write and comment on anything you wish to write. Your piece of writing can be your hobbies, interests, activities, songs, reviews or comment on politics, etc. you can reach a wider audience. In a nutshell, a blog is your personal website where you write anything you wish to.

How to create a blog?

Creating a blog is utterly free of cost. You do not have to spend a single penny for creating a blog. There are many free blog hosting sites which allow you to create; but, the most popular and best blog hosting sites are “Blogger” and “Wordpress”. You can create your own blog in no time. Follow the steps for creating a blog on Blogger:

Creating a blog on blogger:

Sign Up for Gmail if you don’t have. If already have an account the easy steps are as follows:

1. Got to www.blogger.com (sign in to your gmail account)
2. A page appears with two options: (1. Google+Profile 2. Blogger profile). Select on Create a limited Blogger profile
3. Another page appears with the option (Display Name). Write a name that you want it appears as your blog home not on your Blog. After writing your blog name, click on continue. (Note you can also click on continue with blogger.
4. Now here comes the page where you can create your blog. Click on “New Blog” option which appears on the left side of home page.
5. After clicking on New Blog another pop-up page appears with title:” Blogs List > Create a new blog”. Below this, title option appears which you need to fill with the title that you want it to appear on your blog. i.e. “Ur-Pro-Guide” is title of this blog.  You can give it any title you want.
6. The next option you will see is the “Address”. Address is your domain name, like, urproguide.blogspot.com. You can give your own.
7. Next option is of “Template”. You can use any template you like. Select a template and then click on create a blog.

   How to create a post on blogger?

1. Go to the dashboard of your Blog or blogger home. Click on the Pencil like structure shown on the page of the blogger home. If you are on your own blogs dashboard, then you will have two options: first, you can click pencil shaped structure on the top of your Blog(as shown in the picture); and, second, you can click on new post option on the left of your blog dashboard.
2. Your post page appears. Give the title of your post, write or copy your content from a word page if already written and paste it on the post content area.
3. You will see 4 options on right side of your blog. They are: Publish, Save, Preview and Close. Click on preview to see how your blog looks like. Then publish it.