What Is Blog

Blogger is a free web-based blogging platform that allows users to easily create and host blogs. Blog*Spot is the blogging platform's free hosting service for blogs. To create a free blog on Blog*Spot, users create a blogger.com account, choose a blog title and URL, select a template, and make their first blog post. Their blog will then be hosted for free on Blog*Spot at the URL they selected. Blogger works on Mac browsers like Safari and Firefox, allowing Mac users to easily create and publish blogs.

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What is Blog*Spot?

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Blog*Spot is a weblog-hosting service run by the folks who make Blogger. As such, it is
very nicely integrated with Blogger - no ugly configuring! Freely-hosted blogs on
BlogSpot will display ads. However, you don't need to keep your blog on Blog*Spot. If
you have your own site, you can use Blogger to publish there, by following the
instructions in this article.

What is is Blogger?
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Blogger is a web-based tool that helps you publish to the web instantly - whenever the
urge strikes. Blogger is the leading tool in the rapidly growing area of web publishing
known as weblogs, or "blogs."

Blogger gives you a way to automate (and greatly accelerate) the blog publishing
process without writing any code or worrying about installing any sort of server software
or scripts. And yet, it still gives you total control over the look and location of your blog.

More specifically, instead of hand-coding your blog posts and

frequently uploading the newest version of your page, you
make posts to your blog by submitting a simple form on the
Blogger web site, and the results immediately show up on
your site, with your Will Blogger work on a Mac?
Will Blogger work on a Mac?

Yes! The Blogger interface is compatible with Mac browsers.

Some Mac browsers (such as Safari) do not currently support the formatting and
hyperlink buttons in our posting screen, though you are still welcome to use formatting
and link tags by entering them manually of course. For a browser offering complete
support, we recommend trying the latest version of Mozilla Firefox.

We have many Mac users on our team and are keenly watching the development of
these browsers. As they become final, we will re-evaluate how these browsers perform
with Blogger.
design.

How do I create a blog that Blogger will host for free?

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Before you can create a free blog on Blog*Spot, Blogger's hosting service, you need to
have already created an account on blogger.com. Once you've logged into blogger.com,
click the Create a Blog link above your list of blogs:

On Step 2, enter a Title and Address (URL). You'll also need to type in the verification
word displayed on this page, to confirm that you are a real person and not a computer.
When you're done, click continue:

On Step 3, you can choose a template for your blog; this is how it will appear when you
publish it. Next, Blogger will create your new blog and reserve your spot on BlogSpot. As
soon as you make your first post, your page will appear at the address you chose.
You're all ready to blog!