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[http://www.howstuffworks.com/] SUBSCRIBE Adventure Animals Auto Culture Entertainment Health Home & Garden Lifestyle Money Science Tech Video Shows Quizzes Computer Electronics Home / Tech / Computer / Computer Software / Other Software More Stuff Like This 10 Ways 3-D Printing Could Change the World How Transparent Texting Works Puzzle: Central Processing Unit How Blogger Works by Ed Grabianowski Page 1 How Blogger Works 2 How to Add and Remove Blogger Posts and Pages 3 How to Edit Photos on Blogger 4 How to Install Custom Blogger Templates How to Add and Remove Blogger Posts and Pages Adding new posts to Blogger is very simple. In the Blogger admin panel, there's an orange button in the upper left labeled "New Post." Hit that button and it brings you to a form where you can enter your post. There's a space at the top where you can enter a title for the post. This title will appear at the top of the post and on the blog 's front page. The main post entry window is basically a word processor. You enter your text and format it with a variety of buttons, making words bold, italic, different colors, adding links, bullet lists and so on. You can insert a jump break as well – everything above the break will appear on the front page, while the rest of the post will only show up if someone goes to that specific post. If you'd rather format your post directly using HTML, that option is also available. You can even switch back and forth between the HTML and WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You get) editors. Adding pages to a Blogger blog is similar to adding a post. From the admin panel, find the "Pages" link on the left side. That will open up a list of the current pages, and a button labeled "Add New Page." You can create and format the new page much like a post. The key difference is the tab bar at the top of your blog. If you go to the front page of your blog, you'll see a bar which has, depending on your settings and the design of the blog, a link called "Home." New pages will show up in that bar. This allows you to add an "About" page, an FAQ, or a series of category pages. You can also change the behavior of this bar and how pages appear in it via the "Show pages as" dialog. Removing posts and pages is easy. There's a "delete" option available for every post and page in the admin panel. You probably want to add more than text to your blog posts. In the next section, we'll see how Blogger handles photos. Print Cite This! Close Please copy/paste the following text to properly cite this HowStuffWorks article: Grabianowski, Ed. "How Blogger Works" 26 August 2012. HowStuffWorks.com. 30 June 2014. Citation & Date Feedback Page 1 How Blogger Works 2 How to Add and Remove Blogger Posts and Pages 3 How to Edit Photos on Blogger 4 How to Install Custom Blogger Templates 5 Author's Note More To Explore Popular Tech Topics Mac, ENIAC or UNIVAC: The Computer History Quiz Top 5 Myths About the Internet How to Connect Your Computer to Your TV How Capacitors Work How Cloud Computing Works Take a look at Computer Videos You Might Also Like How many different Web browsers are there for Android tablets? How many different Web browsers are available for Android tablets? We'll discuss the options currently available -- and why more are likely on the way. How Video Editing Works Have a camcorder and a computer? Add a piece of software to the mix and you can turn a home movie into a high-quality video masterpiece! Popular Articles How BitTorrent Works How safe is the cloud? How Operating Systems Work MOST POPULAR Most Watched MOST POPULAR 10 DIY Projects for Tech Nerds How to Keep Your Laptop Cool 5 Ways to Troubleshoot Your Internet Connection Real Tech or 'Star Trek'? 10 Longest-running TV Shows Most Watched Computer Virus Videos Home Network Videos Ultimate Computer Hardware Videos Digital Cameras It's All Geek to Me Don't Miss CHECK OUT OUR PODCASTS HOWSTUFFWORKS NEWSLETTER THE LATEST AND GREATEST SUBSCRIBE HOWSTUFFWORKS Adventure Animals Auto Culture Entertainment Health Home & Garden Lifestyle Money Science Tech MORE STUFF Blogs HSW Tools RSS Maps Podcasts Quizzes Newsletters Video HSW Brazil HSW China STUFF WEBSITES BrainStuff CarStuff Fw:Thinking Stuff Mom Never Told You Stuff of Genius Stuff They Don't Want You to Know Stuff to Blow Your Mind Stuff You Missed in History Class Stuff You Should Know CUSTOMER SERVICE Advertising Contact Us Help CORPORATE About Us Careers @ HSW Privacy Policy Visitor Agreement TAKE US WITH YOU FOLLOW US Copyright © 1998-2014 HowStuffWorks, a division of InfoSpace LLC