Tuesday, March 24, 2009

The Blogger Dashboard

The Blogger dashboard is at the center of your Blogger world. From the dashboard, you access all portions of your blogs, as permitted by your role in each blog. Besides the blog based links, you also have the language selection pulldown menu, the Following Reading List, and a collection of useful Blogger links.

You can access your dashboard from the navbar, on any blog. At the far left of each navbar, the Blogger "B" links to your dashboard. For any blog that you are not an administrator (and thus don't have a "Customize" link), you'll have a "Dashboard" link instead. Or you can start from "www.blogger.com", in the address window of your browser.

If you're not logged in to a Blogger (Google) account, that's what you do first. If you're logged in, you go straight to the dashboard. How you log in to Blogger affects what you see on your dashboard.


I have administrative access to this blog, "The Real Blogger Status", so I have buttons / links to


For any blog that I am not an administrator, my display will be slightly different.

At the bottom of the dashboard, you'll find an assortment of useful (and possibly not safe) links. Under "Tools and Resources", you'll find a link "Webmaster Tools". Right now, I would avoid this link, until Blogger explains some odd circumstances, which have recently damaged a few blogs. Manual verification of individual blogs seems safer, right now.

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