Building a Web Site For Dummies®, 3rd Edition

Bloggin’ on Bravenet

On top of using outside services like Blogger, you may be able to set up a blog provided by your own Web host. (See Chapter 16 for more information on Web hosting.) Depending upon your Web service account, you may already have a ready-to-go blog that’s easy to set up, perhaps even via a simple control panel.

Although the exact details may vary from one provider to the next, the general process is often very similar. The following sections show you how it works on a Bravenet account (www.bravenet.com).

Adding a blog

Before you can do anything, you need to add a blog to your Bravenet site, of course. Once you’re done with that, you can start playing with the settings and getting your message out to the world.

To add the blog, follow these steps:

1.	In the Bravenet Account Manager, click the Web Tools tab. (See Figure 11-5.) Figure 11-5. The Web Tools tab. [View full size image]
2.	Click the Blog link.
3.	On the resulting page, click the Get Your Blog button.
4.	On the next page, scroll down and click the Continue button. You select the button on the left for free service or the one on the right for paid service, which gives you a few more options. In this example, I’ve selected the free service. You can always upgrade to the paid version later if you’d like.
5.	In the Service Startup Wizard, shown in Figure 11-6, enter a title and subtitle for your blog in ...