Fine tuning your blog

Make yourself a post with a photo just to prove how clever you are. To do that click on the wee icon of a photo in the menu bar.




Now to the fine tuning...

Go to the SETTINGS


Then look for BASIC. Write in the description what the purpose of your blog is. What you hope to achieve.


SAVE the settings.

Next go to Formatting and change the number of posts to ten- you may as well have your posts showing for a decent length of time!

While you're there change the time zone to Auckland- if you're a kiwi!
SAVE the settings

Go to the settings - COMMENTS - and change who can comment to ANYONE.

Write in an email address that you often check for the moderation email to go to. For a school I think you need comment moderation to be turned on- moderation means that all comments get sent to the email address that you nominate and you get to decide whether you want to publish or delete the comment.


Turn word verification for comments off unless you find your self getting spammed- word verification means the commentor has to type a string of meaningless letters before posting so as to stop computers making comments but I have never found it to be a problem- more of a hindrance really.

Now scroll further down until you get to Comment Notification and type in an email address you want Blogger to send a note to to let you know someone has commented.

I have this turned on for when children who are already logged in leave comments- just so I know what is going on?

You may also like to write a statement in the Comment Form Message to let your readers know what to expect when they leave a comment.


And again save the settings.

And you're done apart from any other tinkerings that you might fancy.