Tuesday, 13 May 2014

How to make a Blog using Wordpress in 9 Steps

Here is the full description of making a Wordpress blog in 7 steps. As in my previous post i have described how to make a blog using Blogger platform. Keep in mind that we have a basic need of making a blog to share our views and we must have an audience to listen to us. So why am i telling all this? This is because we need to understand the features if Wordpess that we consider over Blogger. The main difference between Wordpress and blogger platform is its plugins as these plugins help a blogger a lot as we have many SEO plugin's available for optimising our each and every blog post to perform well and reach it's required audience.

So here are the steps in which you can make a Wordpress free blog easily.

9 Steps to make a Free Wordpress Blog.

Step 1: Go to Wordpress.com and click on Get Started button.

Step :1

Note :Click on the images to view in full size.

Step 2: Get started with Wordpress :-

Step 2: Form fill up

Step 2: Create blog

Enter your email address ,user name that you want and password for your blog account ,then enter the blog name or address of your blog i.e that will be followed by wordpress.com eg. Yourblogname.wordpress.com

Enter the web address you want in the field where I had written your blogname.

Then scroll to the bottom of the screen and click on the button Create blog.

Step 3: Setup your Blog : –

Step 3 : Blog setup

Enter your blog name in the first field and in the another field enter description of your blog. Then click on next.

Step 4: Theme Selection :

Step 4 :Theme Setup

Select a best suited theme form the themes provided by wordpress then cick on next.

Step 5: Customize your theme or just click on next step.

Step 5: Customize Theme

Step 6: Share your blog on social networks i.e facebook and twitter.

Step 6 : Share On Social Network

Step 7: Write your first post

Step 7 : First Post

Give your post a title in the top most box and then write your post in the content box below it .You can insert images to your post by clicking on the insert photo button next to title box.

confirm email

Note :But before you get start posting you just have to verify your mail address by just signing in to your mail account and opening the mail from wordpress and clicking on the link given in it.

Step 8: See Your Dashboard

Step 8 :Dashbord

After conformation of your account you can accsess the dashboard of wordpress in which you will find all the stuff that are needed, here you will see the posts tab in the side menu by clicking on it you can see all your posts those are either saved as draft or are published you can see all these here. Here you can publish your unpublished post that we had made in the 7'th step.

Publish post

Step 9: View your blog and your post after you are done with making the posts by entering your web address that you had opt for in the step 2. in a new tab .

Step 9: View Blog

So these were the 9 steps in which you can start a free wordpress blog. Hope you all are clear in making a wordpress blog for free.If you have any doubt regarding these steps feel free to ask any question in the comment box given below.

Make a Blogger blog in 7 easy steps

Making a blogger blog is very easy and it can be made in 7 easy steps.

I will describe it with the help of pictures for the ease of understanding so. Here are the following 7 steps that would make you understand that how to make a blog on Blogger platform and you can try making it yourself.

What is a Blogger platform?

Blogger platform is a platform for blog provided by Google so that making of blog becomes easy and more and more people can make a blog as it is available for free . It is a CMS content management software available online to manage a blog. You can have your desired blog name and can you can get your own blogs url or web address for free but it will be followed by the bloggers extinction that is .blogspot.com. For e.g. you are making a blog with xyz url then your url will be www.xyz.blogspot.com .

Creating a Blogger blog step by step in 7 easy steps.

Step 1: Sign in with one of your Google account on Blogger.

Step 1:Sign in

Step 2: On signing up follow the instructions and finally when you reach the dashboard of your account you can see an option to create a new blog on the left hand side of your screen.

Click on Create new blog

Step 3: A form named ‘Create a new blog’ will open that you have to fill with the required information.

New blogs form.

Step 4: You have to insert a blogs name that you want to make and insert the url you want for your blog and then choose a template for your blog. Template is a look to your blog that how your blog will appear, you can say it as the theme of your blog. Then click on Create Blog.(You can change your blog name and url even after you have created it.)

Fill the information's.

Step 5: After that your has been created you will again be taken to the dashboard of your blogger account then see your blog name with the massage that your blog has been created and two options will be given to you that is Start posting and dismiss click on start posting for creating a new post.

Start posting.

Step 6: After you have clicked on start posting then a new post window will open where you can start posting with a title on the top where I had written ‘Test Post’ and the main content in the lower area that is empty area where I had written ‘This is the test post….’. Then click on preview button on the upper right of your screen to see how your post will look after publishing if you are satisfied with your post then you can click on publish post and here you go!!! Your post has been published.

Create new post

Step 7: After you had published a window will open where you can see the posts of your blog and on the top of the screen you will see a button ‘view blog’ click on it to see your blog with the post published.

See your blog.

And for posting more posts follow the 5 to 7 steps again and you can add new posts to your existing blog.

Note: In the 5’Th step I had mentioned about an option of start posting instead of that you will find an option of create a new post. The button of create a new post is just on the right side of your blog name it has a pen picture on it. Click on it and then you can follow the 6 and 7 step.

So this was all about creating a new blog on the Blogger platform. If you have any kinds of query feel free to ask me in the comment box below. And even comment to give your feedback on the post your comments are precious to me!

This was all about who wants to make a blog using Blogger in my upcoming posts i will tell how to create a new blog using Wordpress and personally i would recommend that one must create a free blog with blogger but when it comes to paid ones blogger is not that much powerful then wordpress so in my upcoming posts i would tell you about how to create a free wordpress blog as it would help you in future when you want to shift to the paid blog using a Top level domain.