We created Blogger to give you an easy way to share your thoughts — about current events, what's going on in your life, or anything else you'd care to discuss — with the world. We've developed a host of features to make blogging as simple and effective as possible.
Getting Started
New! Customize your design
The
Blogger Template Designer offers many templates, making it simple for you to create a professional-looking blog. In addition, the Template Designer lets you customize your template. Choose from hundreds of background images, tens of flexible layouts, and rearrange widgets through a drag and drop interface. Add gadgets such as slideshows, user polls, or even AdSense ads. Changing fonts and colors is easy too. And if that’s not enough control, you can even edit your blog’s CSS and HTML.
Publishing your voice is easy and free
Creating your blog with Blogger takes just a few easy steps. In a matter of minutes you can start posting text, photos, videos, and more to your blog. Post as often as you want; it's free. Check out this article on
How to get started or watch the
How to create a blog with Blogger video.
Your free website
When you create your blog, you can host it for free on Blog*Spot. Just choose an
available URL and you're ready to go. If you change your mind and
want a different URL later, making the change is easy. Blogger also includes a
custom domain option; you can have a domain name, like example.com, and we'll still host your blog there, giving you all of Blogger's great features.
Add photos and videos to your post
You can easily
add a photo to your blog post by clicking on the image icon in the post editor toolbar. Your photos are then hosted in your
free Picasa Web Albums account, where you can order prints and organize photos into albums.
Adding a video to your post is just as easy; just click on the film-strip icon on the post editor toolbar to get started. Videos uploaded through Blogger are hosted on
Google Video.
More Features
New! Earn money
With Blogger, you can earn money just by posting high quality original content on your favorite topics. Blogger has a dedicated Monetize tab that allows you to easily place
AdSense ads on your blog.
Develop your community
Let your readers follow your blog by
adding the Followers gadget to your layout. With this gadget, your readers can click the "Follow This Blog" link to add your blog to their Blogger Dashboard and Google Reader account. They also have the option to add their image and profile to your blog to tell the world that they're a fan.
Feedback from your readers
It's easy for readers to
leave comments on any of your blog posts, giving you useful, timely feedback. They can leave comments right below the post, in a pop-up window, or on a separate page. You can also use
Reactions to let your readers quickly provide feedback with just one click.
New post notifications
Your readers can choose to subscribe to your blog's feeds, so they're notified whenever you publish a new blog post. You can also
customize what's shared in your blog's feed, and set up your blog to email new posts automatically to specific email addresses or mailing lists.
One simple ID
Because you can login to Blogger with your
Google Account — which also gives you access to Gmail, iGoogle, orkut, etc. — you have one less username and password to remember. Your blog's address can also be used as an
OpenID to give you a single digital identity across the web. Since your blog can accept comments from OpenID users in addition to registered Blogger members, it'll be easier for all your readers to leave feedback and participate in your conversations.
Languages of the world
Blogger is currently available in
41 languages including English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
Arabic, Hebrew, and Persian speakers can use Blogger with Right-to-Left display and formatting. And
transliteration is available for five Indic languages.
Advanced Features
New! Pages
With Blogger’s
Pages feature, you can create new pages that are linked from your blog. For example, you can create an “About This Blog” or a “Contact Me” page, in a similar way you write a new blog post, and provide links to those pages as tabs at the top of your blog or in the sidebar.
Posting on the go
Blogger has many additional ways for you to post to your blog. You can post to your blog from
your mobile phone or through a secret
Mail-to-Blogger email address. With these options, it's easy to post to your blog whenever you want, from wherever you may be.
Group blogging
With Blogger, it's easy to
create a team blog, allowing multiple bloggers to contribute to a single blog. You select which team members have administrative authority and those who are just authors. You can also choose to
make your blog private and restrict who can view it. This puts you in full control of your blog.
Third-party applications
You can choose among a host of
third-party applications that integrate with Blogger to make it even easier for you to blog. Be sure to check out
code.blogger.com if you're a developer and want to create your own great app.
Even more features...
We're constantly developing new features for Blogger; check out
Blogger Buzz to stay on top of all the latest additions and changes. If you want to try some of our experimental features, check out
Blogger in draft. And if you need more information about any of Blogger's features, be sure to visit the
Blogger Help site or
discussion group. To see what others are posting, check out
Blogs of Note. We hope you like what we've created.
