Creating a Website: The Missing Manual, 3rd Edition

Managing a Blog

Once you create your blog, you can perform any of the following tasks:

• Add new posts

• Edit existing posts

• Review comments left by other people

• Change your blog settings

The hub for managing your blog is a page called the Dashboard (see Figure 13-10). That’s where you start every time you log in. The Dashboard lists all your blogs and provides a set of management links for each. If you scroll down the page, you’ll find the “Reading List” section, which has links to blogging news, hot blogs, and any blogs you’ve chosen to follow.

Figure 13-10. When you log in to Blogger, you start out in a section called the Dashboard, where you see all your blogs and how many posts they have. Click the New Post button to add a new blog entry (Figure 13-7), or click Edit Posts to review earlier entries (Figure 13-11).

Although the Dashboard is the starting point for blog management, as soon as you get to work you’ll return to the tabbed Blogger page you used when you created your first post. This page is the core of the Blogger service; depending on the tab you choose, you can do anything from adding and editing posts to changing the way your blog works.

For example, if you click Edit Posts, you’ll end up back on Blogger’s management page, but with the Edit Posts tab selected (see Figure 13-11). This tab lets you review and edit the posts you already published. It’s the perfect tool for correcting ...