You’ve been hearing the buzz about blogs for some time now. It’s on the news, it’s all over the internet. If you’ve never tried to your hand a blogging before, I’m going to help you out. I just so happens that there is a FREE blogging hosting and software site called Blogger.com. You’ll be blogging inside of 15 minutes, I promise. Okay, let’s get started.  

Step 1 Open up an internet browser and navigate to http://blogger.com/. The screen below will appear.

Step 2 Click on the Orange Arrow that says "CREATE YOUR BLOG NOW".  

Step 3

1. Enter your email address in space provided. It needs to be a real email addres.
2. Enter a password in the space provided.
3. Enter your password again in the next space.
4. Type in a Display Name for the Blog – I’m choosing "Ask Stan Beck Sample Blog"
5. Type in Word Verification for the word that you see. This function is prevent creating blogger accounts via computer software.
6. And click the orange "Continue" button.

Step 4 On this next screen,

1. Type in the Blog Title you would like
2. Type in the Blog Address. Let’s say you choose "blogsample123", then your blog url address will be blogsample123.blogspot.com.
3. Click on the "Continue" button at the bottom right.

Step 5 You should be receiving an email like this one: Click on the link indicated to activate your account. Once you click the link, you will redirected to a webpage telling you that you account is activated.  

Step 6 Choose a Template by clicking on the one you want. I’m choosing Tic Tac. And then click on the Orange "Continue" button.  

Step 7 Success! your blog has now been created. "Start Posting" arrow at the bottom right.  

Step 8 Now it’s time to create your first post.

• Enter in a title.
• Enter in your post text.
• Click on the orange "Publish" button at the bottom of the screen.

Step 9 You will then see this screen: To see you new blog, click on the View Blog link.  

Step 10 Pat yourself on the back. You have created a new Blogger.com blog and have entered in your first post.