We created Blogger to
give you an easy way to share your thoughts — about current events,
what's going on in your life, or anything else you'd care to discuss —
with the world. We've developed a host of features to make blogging as
simple and effective as possible.
Getting Started
New! Customise your design
The
Blogger Template Designer
offers many templates, making it simple for you to create a
professional-looking blog. In addition, the Template Designer lets you
customise your template. Choose from hundreds of background images, tens
of flexible layouts and rearrange widgets through a drag and drop
interface. Add gadgets such as slideshows, user polls or even AdSense
ads. Changing fonts and colours is easy too. And if that’s not enough
control, you can even edit your blog’s CSS and HTML.
Publishing your voice is easy and free
Creating your blog with Blogger takes just a few easy steps. In a matter
of minutes you can start posting text, photos, videos and more to your
blog. Post as often as you want; it's free. Take a look at this article
on
How to get started or watch the
How to create a blog with Blogger video.
Your free website
When you create your blog, you can host it for free on Blog*Spot. Just choose an
available URL and you're ready to go. If you change your mind and
want a different URL later, making the change is easy. Blogger also includes a
custom domain
option; you can have a domain name, such as example.com and we'll still
host your blog there, giving you all of Blogger's great features.
Add photos and videos to your post
You can easily
add a photo to your blog post by clicking on the image icon in the post editor toolbar. Your photos are then hosted in your
free Picasa Web Albums account, where you can order prints and organise photos into albums.
Adding a video
to your post is just as easy; just click on the film-strip icon on the
post editor toolbar to get started. Videos uploaded through Blogger are
hosted on
Google Video.
More Features
New! Earn money
With Blogger, you can earn money just by posting high quality original
content on your favourite topics. Blogger has a dedicated Monetise tab
that allows you to easily place
AdSense ads on your blog. Also, through Blogger’s
Amazon Associates programme,
you can search Amazon’s product catalogue and add links to products you
recommend that earn you commission when your readers buy these
products.
Develop your community
Let your readers follow your blog by
adding the Followers gadget
to your layout. With this gadget, your readers can click the "Follow
This Blog" link to add your blog to their Blogger Dashboard and Google
Reader account. They also have the option to add their image and profile
to your blog to tell the world that they're a fan.
Feedback from your readers
It's easy for readers to
leave comments
on any of your blog posts, giving you useful, timely feedback. They can
leave comments right below the post, in a pop-up window or on a
separate page. You can also use
Reactions to let your readers quickly provide feedback with just one click.
New post notifications
Your readers can choose to subscribe to your blog's feeds, so they're
notified whenever you publish a new blog post. You can also
customise what's shared in your blog's feed and set up your blog to email new posts automatically to specific email addresses or mailing lists.
One simple ID
Since you can log in to Blogger with your
Google Account
— which also gives you access to Google Mail, iGoogle, orkut, etc. —
you have one less username and password to remember. Your blog's address
can also be used as an
OpenID to give
you a single digital identity across the web. Since your blog can accept
comments from OpenID users in addition to registered Blogger members,
it'll be easier for all your readers to leave feedback and participate
in your conversations.
Languages of the world
Blogger is currently available in
41 languages including English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese and Korean.
Arabic, Hebrew and Persian speakers can use Blogger with Right-to-Left display and formatting. And
transliteration is available for five Indic languages.
Advanced Features
New! Pages
With Blogger’s
Pages feature,
you can create new pages that are linked from your blog. For example,
you can create an “About This Blog” or a “Contact Me” page, in a similar
way you write a new blog post, and provide links to those pages as tabs
at the top of your blog or in the sidebar.
Posting on the go
Blogger has many additional ways for you to post to your blog. You can post to your blog from
your mobile phone or through a secret
Mail-to-Blogger email address. With these options, it's easy to post to your blog whenever you want, from wherever you may be.
Group blogging
With Blogger, it's easy to
create a team blog,
allowing multiple bloggers to contribute to a single blog. You select
which team members have administrative authority and which are authors
only. You can also choose to
make your blog private and restrict who can view it. This puts you in full control of your blog.
Third-party applications
You can choose among a host of
third-party applications that integrate with Blogger to make it even easier for you to blog. Make sure that you take a look at
code.blogger.com if you're a developer and want to create your own great app.
Even more features...
We're constantly developing new features for Blogger; take a look at
Blogger Buzz to stay on top of all the latest additions and changes. If you want to try some of our experimental features, take a look at
Blogger in draft. And if you need more information about any of Blogger's features, make sure you visit the
Blogger Help site or
discussion group. To see what others are posting, take a look at
Blogs of Note. We hope you like what we've created.
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