Some new blog owners put a lot of effort into designing a shiny template with lots of features, but omit blog content - or spend time carefully tuning their blogs.
Eventually, they will add content, to the blog. Later, they may discover reality.
A properly designed template lets you publish any content, whenever convenient - but you need to start with actual content.
Developing a blog is so simple - when you learn as you go. Make the template fit the content.
Start with a subject, an available URL, and a standard Blogger template.
Start with "Create a blog", where you choose an available URL, and a template. The URL choice generally starts from a chosen subject.
A standard Blogger template is quick and easy to install. Just go to the dashboard Template page, choose one, and "Apply to Blog". You're done.
Here's just a sample of what's available, from the dashboard Template page.
If you decide that you would like a different template, you can change just as easily - as long as you apply template tweaks properly.
Just setup your new blog, pick a template, and move forward.
Publish content.
Start publishing your blog - today - add posts (and pages), to inform and to interest your readers.
What you publish today will be readable, tomorrow. Publish today, revise and add content, tomorrow.
And what you publish today will be readable, today.
Publicise your content.
Once you have quality content, work on publiciseing the content. That will get you more readers, and encourage you to publish more content.
Get reputation.
Readers get you reputation - and reputation gets you more readers. And knowing about your readers will encourage you to publish more.
This is a circular process. Content ---> Publicity ---> Reputation ---> Readers ---> Content.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
Or eat, sleep, rave, repeat.
Customise your blog.
It's your blog - and as you develop content and readers, you'll learn what accessories will look good, work reliably, and produce results.
Your readers will be happier when they can read your blog.
Add dynamic accessories.
Dynamic accessories help your readers enjoy your blog, as you publish more content. With ten post or a thousand posts, properly designed dynamic accessories will work equally well. You don't waste time on repetitive maintenance, as your blog gets bigger - so you spend more time publishing content.
Upgrade the template, when convenient.
Properly designed blogs display a good mixture of pages and posts. A blog uses the post template to display the dynamic and static pages.
You can re publish your blog, using any properly written template, whenever it's convenient. You can use any properly chosen third party template - or choose to develop your own, properly tested, as you wish.
Once you have readers, and a reputation, you'll have a better idea what type of template will serve you best. And since blogs are free, you can use a test blog to develop a shiny new template, as you publish your live blog and keep your readers happy.
And you do publish your blog, for your readers, right?
What's your preference?
Which types of blogs would you read, regularly?
And yes, I know that most of us really prefer a better choice.
Hope for #4, settle for #1.
Some blog components work just fine - as provided.
The "Robots.txt" file is quite important for regulating blog access, as provided by Blogger. Don't tweak "robots.txt" before learning what it does.
Eventually, they will add content, to the blog. Later, they may discover reality.
This looks like crap!or
Why do I have no readers?Different blogs, with differing content, may look better using different templates. And some sections of the dashboard should be left alone.
A properly designed template lets you publish any content, whenever convenient - but you need to start with actual content.
Developing a blog is so simple - when you learn as you go. Make the template fit the content.
- Start with a subject, an available URL, and a standard Blogger template.
- Publish content.
- Publicise your content.
- Get reputation.
- Customise your blog.
- Add dynamic accessories.
- Upgrade the template, when convenient.
Start with a subject, an available URL, and a standard Blogger template.
Start with "Create a blog", where you choose an available URL, and a template. The URL choice generally starts from a chosen subject.
A standard Blogger template is quick and easy to install. Just go to the dashboard Template page, choose one, and "Apply to Blog". You're done.
If you decide that you would like a different template, you can change just as easily - as long as you apply template tweaks properly.
Just setup your new blog, pick a template, and move forward.
Publish content.
Start publishing your blog - today - add posts (and pages), to inform and to interest your readers.
What you publish today will be readable, tomorrow. Publish today, revise and add content, tomorrow.
And what you publish today will be readable, today.
Publicise your content.
Once you have quality content, work on publiciseing the content. That will get you more readers, and encourage you to publish more content.
Get reputation.
Readers get you reputation - and reputation gets you more readers. And knowing about your readers will encourage you to publish more.
This is a circular process. Content ---> Publicity ---> Reputation ---> Readers ---> Content.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
Or eat, sleep, rave, repeat.
Customise your blog.
It's your blog - and as you develop content and readers, you'll learn what accessories will look good, work reliably, and produce results.
Your readers will be happier when they can read your blog.
Add dynamic accessories.
Dynamic accessories help your readers enjoy your blog, as you publish more content. With ten post or a thousand posts, properly designed dynamic accessories will work equally well. You don't waste time on repetitive maintenance, as your blog gets bigger - so you spend more time publishing content.
Upgrade the template, when convenient.
Properly designed blogs display a good mixture of pages and posts. A blog uses the post template to display the dynamic and static pages.
You can re publish your blog, using any properly written template, whenever it's convenient. You can use any properly chosen third party template - or choose to develop your own, properly tested, as you wish.
Once you have readers, and a reputation, you'll have a better idea what type of template will serve you best. And since blogs are free, you can use a test blog to develop a shiny new template, as you publish your live blog and keep your readers happy.
And you do publish your blog, for your readers, right?
What's your preference?
Which types of blogs would you read, regularly?
- An ugly blog, with well written content.
- A pretty blog, with no content.
- An ugly, shiny blog, with no content.
And yes, I know that most of us really prefer a better choice.
- A pretty blog, easy to read, with well written content.
Hope for #4, settle for #1.
Some blog components work just fine - as provided.
The "Robots.txt" file is quite important for regulating blog access, as provided by Blogger. Don't tweak "robots.txt" before learning what it does.
Warning! Use with caution. Incorrect use of these features can result in your blog being ignored by search engines.Word!
Comments
I have seen many blog where the owner has thrown every gadget available onto the blog, and gone with awful typefaces and hard-to-read color combinations, added a busy background, and called it good. I can't even stay to read the content when it's that ugly.
Thanks for the observation.
That is the final choice, for most of us. It's what many blog owners are constantly trying to get to - and only getting, occasionally.
MHO though is that properly chosen dynamic accessories - and intelligent design choices - will leave you with more time to work on making the blog pretty, easy to read, and with good content,
Thanks for your question.
There are a number of ways to identify a blog. The authoritative reference would be the Publishing wizard, on the dashboard Settings - Basic page.
http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2016/05/verify-blogspot-and-domain-urls.html