Step 2: The Dashboard

This is where you design and layout your Web Log.

The Web Site Address is www.Blogger.com

Your Web Log Address will be your domain name dot blogspot, like this:
www.crashcoursecomputerbooks.blogspot.com

Open Your Dashboard:

Sign in and your Dashboard appears
Hover over the icons to read what they say
Click More Options down arrow to open a Menu

Use this Menu to open a variety of options like:

Posts
Pages
Comments
Google+
Stats
Earnings
Layout
Template
Settings

Step 1: Create a Blog Account with Blogger.com

Blogger is Google owned, but you can use your Google, Yahoo, or Twitter UserName and Password to sign-in. If you don’t have one of these accounts, create one. If you do, sign in.

Open a Blogger/Google Account:
Open your Browser and click the Address bar, and type www.blogger.com
Click Sign up (in the upper right corner)

Create an Account:
If you don’t have a Google Account create an account
Then Sign In
Your Dashboard will open. (Step 2)

Create A Free Blog

This is for you Liz

A Web Log is a single Web Page written in script that allows you to send and receive information from a Web Page. The author of a Web Log is called a Blogger. A Blogger types in comments, explanations, events, and can add images, graphics or video directly into the Web Log Web Page.

Go to www.Blogger.com or blogspot.com (same web site)
Sign in with your Google Email and Password or create an account
Name your blog and choose from predesigned templates or design your own
Once you have finished setting up your blog you need to promote it
If you already have a Web Page copy and paste the web site address of your Blog Page into a Link Tag on your Home Web Page.

When people visit your home page they can click the blog hyperlink.
They must have a Google Account or create a User Name and Password to use your Blog.

Welcome to my Crash Course Computer Books Blog

My name is Patricia Mullaly. This is my first Blog...

I write Crash Course Computer Books and teach Crash Course Computer Classes in my home office and for Fresno Adult School for the last 15 years.

Crash Course Computer books are 350 page college books condensed into under 50 pages. Students learn all the steps that are in a college computer book without all the extra stuff... There's about 50 steps in each book depending on the Program.

In a 3 hour session I sit down with my student and I read each step as the student creates the file. At the end of the session I email the file to the student so they can continue to use the file and follow the book.

I teach Microsoft Office Programs and QuickBooks which are what every business in America is using today. My clients are people that need to know how to use a program NOW either in their business or to get a job.