The "site feed" section creates your RSS feed. This allows me, or a webmaster in Hong Kong, or one of your site's loyal visitors, to receive your posting on their website, on their browser, or in a desktop aggregator. This is the syndication part of the RSS/Blogging process.

You want to publish your site feed, if you are hoping that your content will show up on other people's websites, or if you are using the blog as a substitute for an email newsletter. Even if you don't publicize your feed URL, you may want to set up an RSS feed to use on your own webpages.

You can choose short descriptions or full descriptions. This affects how much of your post will appear on other websites or in your subscriber's aggregator program. My philosophy is that short description, if written well, will get readers interested enough to click on the linked headline. This will bring reader back to your website. A full description publishes your entire post on the other website. It's ok to do it that way if you want to.

These are the site feed settings that work on my website:

Site Feed Server path: /public_html/blog/
Site Feed Filename : atom.xml
Site Feed URL:http://www.bblogger-express.com/atom.xml

If Blogger.com is hosting your blog. the site feed URL will be automatically filled in. This is the URL that you will be giving to the RSS directories, and this is the URL that your subscribers will add to their news aggregators. It's important to get this one right.

To check to make sure your feed is working, go to http://feedvalidator.org/ and type in the Site Feed URL exactly as it appears on the Site Feed page of Blogger.com Click on "validate" and hope that you get this very nice message:

Congratulations!

This is a valid Atom 1.0 feed.


You now have a working blog and an RSS feed that will syndicate your musings to the websites and surfers of the world. It wasn't all that hard, and so far, it hasn't cost you a dime.

The "archives" section is rather important.if you choose to say "yes" to the Enable post pages question, your blog will automatically create a new page for your site every thing you make a post. Since each new page will have a link back to your home page, the more pages you have on your site the better.

These are the settings that work for my website. As mentioned earlier, if your site is setup differently, and your archives don't show up, ask your hosting support center for assistance:

Archive path: /public_html/blog/
Archive URL: http://www.bblogger.blogspot.com/
Archive Filename: archive.htm (you can name it anything you want to, of course)

When you have finished with your archive settings. click on the republish button at the top, and view your blog. When your blog is on your screen click on previous posts to see if you can see your test post. If you get a 404 error page, your archive settings are incorrect

The "comments" section gives you the opportunity to allow visitors to add comments to your blog. Your readers can add comments that are useful for other readers, and allows your blog to be used for two-way communication the way the system was intended to be used. However, if you find yourself being spammed by marketing folks, and none of your visitors comments have any value to your other readers, you can disable this feature of your blog.

You can also ask to have any comments sent to your email address, so you'll be notified when someone add their pithy reply to your post.

The "formatting"section gives you more choices. How many days worth of postings will be on the main page (your choice will depend on how many posts you intend to add in a week or moth. The timestamp format, time zone, and language are all pretty self explanatory. As always, you'll want to click the "save settings" button when you're done.

Now that you've set up, look for the "basic" section under the settings tab. This area allows you to give your blog a snappy description. You also get to choose if you want to add your blog to Blogger.com's listings (of course you do ) if you want to show quick editing on your blog. and if you want to allow email post links, which let your visitors send your postings to people in an email.

If you publish your test post and nothing happens, it's probably because your FTP path or other setting is not correct. You can check your website's control panel to see where your blogger ended up. if it isn't in the folder you intended for it, you'll need to do some tweaking of the Publishing settings. To do that, click on the "settings" tab at the top of the Blogger.com page and then choose "Publishing".

Even if everything works. you'll still want to go to this page. At the bottom of the page is the heading Ping weblogs.com. Select "yes" from the drop down box, and save your settings. This allows your blogger to be announced to this major blogger directory every time you make a new post. This is a good thing.

Congratulations. you have successfully created your Blog.

Now next step "Settings".
Yes, you now have a blog.
But of course, we aren't really done yet.

You now need to create a post. since you need to see if everything is working. Don't fuss over your first post you can always delete it later. just click on the orange arrow, type in a headline, and add a few words to the bottom text box. Now click on the "Publish button"

Click on "Advanced blog setup" The following instructions will assume that you are hosting your own blog.

On the next page. type in your blog title and check the listed radio button. After all, you do want people to find, right?

Type in the URL of your site. Fill in the rest of the text fields with the name you want for your blogger file, and your blogger URL You may wish to use your keyword for the folder's name. In the example below l've named my folder "blog" which happens to be appropriate for my site.

The following settings are the ones that work on my website your own site may have a different FTP path. Your hosting support folks will help you with this if your blog doesn't work with these settings.

The next screen allows you to choose a template. pick one it doesn't matter which one you choose, since you can always change it later, or create your own. Click the button, and you'll see this announcement.

On the next page, type in the title of your blog. You will then need to decide it you are leaving your BLOG on the Blogger. com servers or putting it on your own website. if you leave it at Blogger.com. which is free, type your keyword in the "blog address/URL" text box, and you are almost finished. if you want your blog hosted on your own website.

Step 2

Select a user name and pass word that you'll remember. and choose one title name for your blog that includes the key words that your site will be built around.

Step-1

Creating a 'BLOG' is easy if you use Blogger.com

I will show you how to set up your new account at Blogger.com which is free. There are other free blogging programs available, and there are many web hosts that ofter the ability to add a BLOG to your site. However, i kind of the idea using a program that is supported by Google.com i also like the fact that it's so easy to use.

This is the structure of blogger.com first page. It's easy to find your way around site. and the instructions for building your blog. To create your account just click the CREATE YOUR BLOG NOW.button.