Limiting Commenters On Your Blog

1. go to Dashboard. 2. Click Settings, 3. Click Comments. 4. You'll find several options concerning comments. 5. The second entry is for "Who can comment?. 6. Select the one you want. (if you have more than one blog, each one is controlled separately, so you're not committing any other blogs to this choice.) 7. After making your one or several changes, scroll to page bottom and click Save Changes.

Limiting Commenters On Your Blog

1. go to Dashboard. 2. Click Settings, 3. Click Comments. 4. You'll find several options concerning comments. 5. The second entry is for "Who can comment?. 6. Select the one you want. (if you have more than one blog, each one is controlled separately, so you're not committing any other blogs to this choice.) 7. After making your one or several changes, scroll to page bottom and click Save Changes.

Quick Edit Crossed Tools

It's too bad that new Bloggers cannot more readily see what the "crossest tools" (screwdriver and wrench) are for. They are convenient Quick Edit tools, visible only to you and only when you are logged in to that blog. Neither these nor the Quick-Edit pencil icon under each post can be seen or used by others. We all worried about someone else being able to edit our posts or page elements for a few minutes when they were first introduced, so you're not alone if you panicked! But forget it now and you'll soon enough find something serious to worry about in Blogger! It's full of real bugs and glitches.

Quick Edit Crossed Tools

I wish new Bloggers would more readily see what the "crossest tools" (screwdriver and wrench) are for. They are convenient Quick Edit tools, visible only to you and only when you are logged in to that blog. Neither these nor the Quick Edit pencil icon can be seen or used by others. We all worried about someone else being able to edit our posts or page elements for a few minutes when they were first introduced, so you're not alone if you panicked! But forget it now and you'll soon enough find something serious to worry about in Blogger! It's full of real bugs and glitches.

Convert Html to a Displayable Post Text

-- AMPERSAND CODES can be used in short sections to show the code itself (which is what I might do to show single nonbreaking space. HTML Ampersand Character Codes -- For longer sections that need to be "translated" or if you're lazy, the programs below convert html code for you. Both work well, though Postable's first screen is a little less intuitive. Postable Quick Escape The code above would be displayed first in the post as code, then on screen here like this (converted by Quick Escape): <a href=\"http://www.accessify.com/tools-and-wizards/developer-tools/quick-escape/\">Quick Escape</a> Normally that anchor code would be executed as a link, not shown on screen.

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Convert Html to a Displayable Post Text

-- AMPERSAND CODES can be used in short sections to show the code itself (which is what I might do to show single nonbreaking space. HTML Ampersand Character Codes -- For longer sections that need to be "translated" or if you're lazy, the programs below convert html code for you. Both work well, though Postable's first screen is a little less intuitive. Postable Quick Escape The code above would be displayed first in the post as code, then on screen here like this (converted by Quick Escape): <a href=\"http://www.accessify.com/tools-and-wizards/developer-tools/quick-escape/\">Quick Escape</a> Normally that anchor code would be executed as a link, not shown on screen.

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What Is Indexing?

Google and other search engines have their own rules and criteria for indexing blogs and other sites, but each one "crawls" the entire Internet every so often and "looks" at and stores info about most every site. The indexing is not immediate for your site, so you may have to wait for your site to show up on any search engines. Your site can't be "Googled" by you or your friends until the indexing can occur once or more after you've created your blog. Try not to be anxious while you're waiting, possibly as long as a month. The indexers may do a better job for your particular site if your site has some connections (links) to and from other sites--that's the usual view taken by people who hope to increase traffic to their site. [More below...] There are additional things you can do to improve traffic, listed in a link at the bottom of this post. Look for "Additional Information". After you've been indexed, the chances of your friends finding your site will increase and the chance of traffic by total strangers increasing will also improve. You should notify your friends and make new ones online and always try to write good (interesting) posts. All that attention being paid to your site will make your site more noticeable to the automated indexers (robots, aka "spiders") that crawl across the Internet. Sounds creepy, doesn't it? You may also want to know this additional information if you are new to blogging.