Start Blogging in Five Minutes and Five Steps

How to start a simple blog for your church or mission field. Follow the first five steps to get a basic blog up and running, and then customize it with steps six through ten.

1. Go to http://www.blogger.com where you will see "Create a blog. It's free", Click on "Get started".

2. Blogger and Google are connected. You may already have a Google account you use for Gmail, Groups, or iGoogle. If not, create one now.

3. Name your blog, and choose the URL you want connected with your blogger blog. Keep hitting "Check Availability" to see if your desired URL is already taken. For this blog, I originally used "http://ifbkjv.blogspot.com. This URL is tied in with "blogspot", so it is free. Later, you can upgrade to a custom url for about $10.00. I did upgrade to "http://IFBKJV.com", however, it is not necessary. Most people will not find your blog by typing in a URL at all. Instead, they will simply search for you or your ministry online, and get to your blog via the results. Blogger submits your blog to the search engines and spiders that crawl the web looking for key words like your names or ministry automatically, unless you tell them not to. More on this later.

4. Choose a starter template. This is the best way to have your blog online in a matter of minutes. Everything is predesigned, and you just have to choose which design you like the look of. You do not need to know any html code at all! Pick the style of page and colors you like. They start you with eight choices, but I will show you how to find many more later on in the process, so just pick one for now.

5. Your blog has been created! Click on "Start blogging". You will be taken to a place where you can make your first post. It is very much like posting a note on Facebook. You can delete and edit it later. Enter a title, and a few sentences. Note how you can change the font size and color, add pictures/images from your computer, etc. When you have your first post how you like it, hit "Publish Post".

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