Blogger : A Blogging Platform By Google

Here is my first post about Google`s Free Blogging platform "Blogger".

What is Blogger?

Blogger is Google’s free tool for creating blogs. It can be found on the web at http://www.blogger.com

 

• Getting Started With Blogger

You can use blogs for everything from updating your friends and family about your life, giving your own advice column, discussing your political views, or relating your experience in a topic of interest. You can host blogs with multiple contributors, or you can run your own solo show. Although there are fancier blog tools out there, the mixture of cost (free) and flexibility makes Blogger one of the best deals around

• Setting Up Your Blog

Setting up a Blogger account takes three easy steps. Create an account, name your blog, and choose a template. This is the way by which you can easily setup a professional blog just with the help of your email id absolutely free.

• Hosting Your Blog

Blogger will host your blog for free on blogspot.com. You can also use Blogger to automatically ftp your blog posts to your own web space.

• Posting

Once your blog is set up, Blogger has a basic WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) editor. This is not necessarily a bad thing. If you need more formatting options and a larger window, you can use Google Docs to post to your Blogger blog. You could also do advanced editing with HTML. Blogger has an HTML tab to let you do this directly.

So, its very easy to create and start your blog just go here : Blogger