Starting Up!

Here are some preliminary steps that you could follow:

0. You are going to have decided on content and consistency before you start this. Also some ideas of names for your blog.

1. Download and install firefox 3 on your computer

1. Get yourself a personal gmail account and another gmail account which is basically your blogname@gmail.com (my account for this blog is blogsutras@gmail.com)

2. Get a (digital) photo of yourself so you can use it on the various social networking sites you are going to join... Save it as a JPEG file of low quality (less than 300 kb file size)

3. Go to blogger and register yourself and your blog. Choose the minima template when asked for that. Now you will have a www.yourblogname.blogspot.com URL which you will need for the next few steps...

4. Get yourself registered on Orkut and Facebook, fill in all details, remember to upload your photo, and put in your blogger URL.

5. Now, go and register yourself on all these sites: twitter, Stumble Upon, digg, Delicious, Technorati, Reddit, Mixx There are many more, but these will do for a start. Remember to put your photo in as well as your blogger URL.

6. Finally open an account at picasa and/or photobucket

In the next post we will look into setting up your blogger blog, so that everything runs smoothly for you... You could already post an article or 2 onto your blog, play around with the colours etc and see what suits you. You could also try the looks of other templates, but please switch back to minima... coz all the customisation we will be doing and learning how to do, will be based on that template...

Jai Gurudeva!
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