Writing in your blog

When a customer wishes to have a very simple blog and interface, or to include images in their embedded blog posts, Glass Pen makes an account for them with the Blogger service. Blogger has a simpler interface than WordPress and fewer options for organizing posts, but it allows images to appear through feeds. Blogger provides one gigabyte of storage for images, or you can store images on your own domain and link to those in your blog.

Blogger is a service provided by Google. If you already have an email account ending in gmail.com, then you can use that email address and account password to create a Blogger account.

To write a post, you need to sign on, which you can do at the Blogger homepage. The log in form is at the top right:



This takes you immediately the the Dashboard, which shows your blog controls. To write a post, click on the "Write Post" link at the lower left. You can see the cursor by that link in this screenshot:



This takes you to the Create page of the Posting tab, where you can write your entry into the form provided:



When you have finished your post, just click the orange "Publish Post" button. If you want to save it to finish later, click the blue "Saved" button to make sure you save the latest addition. This will save it as a "draft", which you can edit and publish later.

The lower right of your Dashboard contains links to manage Posts, Settings and Layout. Clicking on the "Posts" link will take you to a list of your published and draft posts so that you can edit them.

Blogger provides tags for you to organize your posts with. These can make it easier to locate particular groups of older posts. The tags can be typed into the window at the bottom of the "Create" posting form, marked with "Labels for this post:".