About this user guide
These documents are a walk-through of how to set up a website on Google’s Blogger platform, for a writer with minimal technical knowledge. Blogger’s help docs are very general, and the point of this user guide is to help a very specific audience achieve a specific goal: to set up and configure a free (and ad-free) writer’s website that will be easy to maintain and will fulfil basic online promotional needs.
The intended users are the technically wary. If you are happy to follow a recipe but think you would never be able to set up your own website, this guide is for you. Writers can jump in at different points of the guide, depending on confidence and experience. An Advanced Customisation section provides links to online help guides so you can take advantage of further functionality available within Blogger.
The Writer website template and List of required images mentioned in the videos are available in the main menu.
To see a test website created using Blogger, visit writingwithceleste.blogspot.com.
Note : Read through the instructions carefully before attempting the set-up. Also, confirm that you have all the prerequisites to hand.
Note: These user documents and videos were created in August 2019. Any future updates to the Blogger dashboard or interface will not be reflected in this guide. But it's a slow platform to change, so much will remain the same.
Note: As of July 2020, new blogs created on Blogger will have a different interface. The functionality remains the same, with the same names for menus and buttons, but the layout on your screen will look different to the video version here in this guide.
The intended users are the technically wary. If you are happy to follow a recipe but think you would never be able to set up your own website, this guide is for you. Writers can jump in at different points of the guide, depending on confidence and experience. An Advanced Customisation section provides links to online help guides so you can take advantage of further functionality available within Blogger.
The Writer website template and List of required images mentioned in the videos are available in the main menu.
To see a test website created using Blogger, visit writingwithceleste.blogspot.com.
Note : Read through the instructions carefully before attempting the set-up. Also, confirm that you have all the prerequisites to hand.
Note: These user documents and videos were created in August 2019. Any future updates to the Blogger dashboard or interface will not be reflected in this guide. But it's a slow platform to change, so much will remain the same.
Note: As of July 2020, new blogs created on Blogger will have a different interface. The functionality remains the same, with the same names for menus and buttons, but the layout on your screen will look different to the video version here in this guide.