In this step, you will enter basic details for your blog.
In the "blog profile" section, you need to provide the following information:
First Name
Last Name
Email Address: for visitors who may want to email you.
Website URL: for visitors who may want to visit your main website.
Upload an avatar: an avatar is a picture that is displayed beside your posts. Personal avatars are usually a picture of one's self, or some other image, logo or symbol. Use the "browse" button to locate a picture on your computer that you wish to upload as your avatar. You are not required to upload an avatar.
The "blog details" section allows you to input some general information concerning your blog:
Blog Title: this is the main title of your blog.
Description: a short description of the purpose or theme of your blog.
Time Zone: so that blog entries are time stamped with times that are the same as the time zone you are in, select a GMT offset. For example, Eastern Standard Time (North America) is GMT -5:00.
Posts per page: the number of posts which will appear at one time on the blog. For example, if you set this drop-down to "10", then your latest post, and the previous 9 posts, will be featured on the first page. Older posts will be displayed in batches of 10 on other pages.
Comments: you can set your blog to automatically add comments from viewers on your blog, or require all comments to be viewed and approved by you before they appear on your blog. For the latter, an interface is provided in this application to preview and approve, edit, or reject comments posted by visitors.
The "categories" section allows you to set up various categories under which you can place you blog entries.
To add a category, click the "add" button at the top of the list. A space will appear at the bottom, allowing you to enter a name for the category; click the "apply" button below the area where you entered the category name to save it to the list.
To delete a category, click on the deletion icon to the right of the category that you want to delete. The icon will change to indicate that the category has been queued for deletion. You can click again on this icon to remove it from the queue. It is possible to mark multiple categories for deletion. When you are done selecting categories to delete, click the "apply" button immediately below the list.
To edit a category name, click on a category. A text box will appear below, allowing you to edit the name. When you are done, click the "apply" button below the area where you edited category name to save your changes.
When you are finished entering information on this screen, click the "next" button near the top-right corner.