Step 2: Choosing a template

So you've chosen a theme, a name, and created your blog. Your blog is still a blank screen. Nothing's been set up yet. Time to get to work with the very very very basics. Very. There are so many things to do to set up a pretty, professional-looking or cutesy-looking blog. But today we'll only address the bare basics.

First, familiarize yourself with your dashboard. This is what you'll see when you go to blogger.com and are signed in.

Have you noticed? The BLANK PAGE got quite a few views yesterday. That was really you, the readers, clicking on the link I wrote in the previous entry. There's nothing on the site yet. This is what the blog looks like right now.