Posting Tips # 1

Click on '+New Post' link on your dashboard. You'll come to a page looking more or less like image#1. (open this image in new window because you'll need to refer it a lot until you finish this post.)

Image#1: Introduction to Blogger Editing Tools

The best strategy to post a story is to first write it in Microsoft Word with all the colors, links and fonts; and then post it directly in edit area.

Blogger supports MS-Word script so what-you-see-is-what-you-get (wysiwyg), check few line alignments, adjust gap and click preview button to see how it look. Unsatisfied? Click compose tab edit it until you get satisfactory result then publish.

Don't want to use MS Word?

1. Text: Start writing in edit area. (see image #1)
Make sure that you are writing under compose tab. (label#1 in image#1)
As you can see it is user friendly edit environment with button very similar to MS Word.

For new users (refer image#1):

1. Label#6 is title. Whatever you write here comes as header of your post. And goes in side-bar as a link.It is a good practice to keep title short and relevant.
   
   
2. Label#5 is to change font style and size.
   
   
3. Label#7 is to change color.
   
   
4. Note that short-cuts like ctrl+b, ctrl+i can directly toggle bold and italic respectively. You don't need to raise your elbow always to change eshtyle.

2. Image: To add an image to your blog. You need to know three things; one, address of the image you are going to upload; two, position where you want to put the image in the post and third how large image do you want to appear in the blog.

click on image icon to upload a photo. See image#1 label#3.
Once you've uploaded the photo, it appear at the top of your post. Just drag and put it wherever you want to put it in the post.

if you think image is too big or too small, drag-resize it to desired size. Don't worry. It doesn't alter the size of originally uploaded image. You can still click the resized image to see full size photo. As you can do with image#1.

3. Linking and Labeling: You may wish to refer your reader to refer some page. Writing web address directly in Edit Area doesn't make it a link (so sad!). To add a link you follow the procedure given below:

1. Select the text you want to make a link.
2. Click button#8 in image#1. A dialog box opens.
3. give the desired web address here. click OK.
   DONE!

See image#2 for explaining image. It is a good habit to go in "Edit Html" tab and provide image an Alternate name, in alt attribute.











Image#2: Linking - an example
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Labeling: This is very very vital part of your post. Provide category to your posts. Which makes it easier to browse the content context-wise.

Try to label your post as many as relevant category as you can.

Don't use vague categories like road, scooter, sky.

Don't use categories which are too specific like white underwear, one night with miss infy or anything like that.

Try to limit yourself in existing Label (which can be seen by clicking "Show all" link.) but good new label are encouraged.

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More features of Blogger Editor will be discussed in next post.

nJOI
Naishe

PS. This post was edited on Blogger Editor from scratch.