Open Live Writer is the successor to Microsoft’s popular Live Writer which no longer works with the Blogger.com platform. This video shows you where to download the free Open Live Writer software and how to set it up to publish to your Blogger blog.
Category Archives: Blogger
382.BL-External Links on Blog Menu
The gadget that creates a menu for your blog pages can also include menu items that take you to other websites. They’re called external links and this video shows you how to make them.
381.BL-Creating a Blog Page and Menu
This video shows you how to create a page using Blogger, and then how to make that page accessible with a menu.
369.BL-Embed Google Map into Blog Post
341.BL-old-Uploading Pictures to Google+, then using in a Blogger Blog
*Note: Google Plus photos is referenced in this video. It is now Google Photos (no Plus!) but the process is the same.
This tutorial video starts with pictures on your computer, uses Picasa to upload the best pictures to your Google+ Photo Albums online, then adds those pictures to a Blogger blog. The online photo album used for the example is our Google+ Photo album from July 2014.
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271.BL-Change the Date of a Post
In a perfect world, you’d write your posts on the day things happen. In the real world it may be a bit later (or even ahead of time for you super-organized people!) Blogger automatically ‘date-stamps’ posts with the current date, but you can override that. This video shows you how.
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270.BL-Adding Pictures from your Computer
Blog posts are pretty dull if they’re just text. This video shows you how to add pictures to your blog from the pictures you have on your computer.
2017 note: you no longer need to pre-size your photos, that is handled automatically in the upload process, so you can skip the first 3 minutes of the video.
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264.BL-Insert Video in Blog
If you take video, or create movies using Movie Maker or other tools, you can enhance your blog by putting the video right in a blog post. This tutorial will show you how.
Note Jan 2015: YouTube moved the option to not include related videos as is shown near the end of this tutorial. To see that option now, click on the link to “Show More” right below the embed code.
263.BL-Edit an Existing Post
Blogger keeps everything you’ve ever written in your blog and you can go back and change anything you want. This video shows you how to access older posts and open them in Edit mode, then Update.
262.BL-Uploading Video to Youtube
In order to put a video into a blog post, it must be on the web somewhere and we think that Youtube is the best place. They host millions of videos and they know how to make it work. It’s free, all you need is a Google account. This tutorial will show you how from scratch.