Creating your first blog

Creating your own blog is very easy, but I've provided a mini guide below to help you through all the process. First of all you have to go to http://www.blogger.com and create a new account.

Then, click where it says "Create your account now". The first screen you get is shown below.

Type first your "user name" and "password". Use ones that you are already using or can remember easily.

Your "display name" is what it says when you post to a blog (what appears on the webpage). Under what you write it will automatically say "posted by". I suggest you use your real name. My "display name" is, for instance, Joan-Tomàs Pujolà.

Accept the "terms" and then click "continue"...

The next screen looks like the one above. Choose a title that you think it will be representative of your blog. You can always change it later on if you change your mind.

The "blog address" is the address you will have to go to to see your blog. Don't put any spaces in it.

You then have to choose a "template" (screen shown below). The template controls what your blog looks like.

You get some choices, and you can change your mind afterwards.

Click "continue", and then you'll get this:

It really is that simple!

Now you can start "posting" to your newly created blog. The interface looks like this, with a textarea and lots of those buttons already being familiar to you from any word-processor:

You will need to write something in order to be able to actually view the blog, and have to click "publish post" first (orange button). You also get a "save as draft" button (in blue), which allows you to save what you've written and post it later.

One final thing... at the top right, you'll see a link "Back to Dashboard".

Your dashboard shows you all of your blogs (you can have lots of them) and you can access and edit them from there.

You'll have the one you are now setting up for yourself and our university blog (“However, I think that…”) as soon as you've joined it.

To join our blog you have to accept the invitation that I'll be sending you to your email address.

So, let’s start blogging….!!

Based on Tom Walton's instructions