Posting via email

This post was sent from my email. Pretty cool huh? It's a feature in blogger that allows you to post directly from your email.

Only con is that you can drag and drop photos of any kind, you need to attach them.

1) Go to settings, and go into mobile and email.
2) Find "Posting using email" and type in your secret words. CAUTION: releasing these secret words will allow anyone with these words to be able to make at least a draft, if not a published post, on your blog.
3) Enable either the option of saving the email as a draft or immediately publishing it.
4) Send the post via email by sending it to username.secretwords@blogger.com

Making a wonderful blog

Just do all the things that I don't do, and you'll be fine.

1) Add lots of visuals. This encourages the reader to keep on scrolling to see pictures, as pictures are more appealing than words. Pictures also advertise your website on Google Images if it's viewed enough.

2) Don't add huge chunks of text in a serif font. Like I did. This makes long blocks of texts harder to read. Use a "sans serif" font (the fonts without the little mark at the beginning and end of each letter).

3) Don't go adding advertisements in your blog if you actually want people to enjoy it, and not want to make money off of it. If you can do both, great. But ads get annoying and cause lag...so you probably won't be able to do both.

4) Using HTML script adds a professional look to your blog. However, if you can't do it, like me, that's fine.

5) Make your blog organized. Labels are fine, but having a bunch of tabs at the top encourages readers to explore the blog more and has a cleaner look than labels.

6) Personalize it. Have a lot of character to it, and make it seem yours. Don't just copy off of someone else's blog, be inspired by them.

7) Have fun with your blog. That's the only way you'll continue to post and get views and stuff.

Linking pages to your blog in Blogger

So it was pretty confusing for me to create individual tabs, until I found out how. Here's the basic process:

Step 1: Create a page on your blog via your Blogger dashboard.

Step 2: Go to your blog layout and click "Add a Gadget."

Step 3: Add the "Pages" gadget.

Step 4: Go to your blog and click the edit button next to the pages gadget.

Step 5: Put check marks next to the pages that you want to be shown.

Step 6: Arrange everything as you want it and voila, you're done.