For those of you that are considering launching a blog here is a authors blog in the makings and unfolding. As with most sites found on the web, everything starts from scratch with a overall vision and then starts unfolding one creation and one page at a time.
First a author needs to decide on which blogging community to go with. Personally I like blogger and for various reasons from A to Z. Second you must pick a template to work with. Now for the best part regarding templates with blogger. You can change template designs at any time or within any process of building your blog from start to finish and blogger has some pretty awesome templates to choose from.
After you have chosen a template, next comes putting the furniture in the house so to speak and laying out your blog using the design program, color choices, ad ons and extras. I would recommend laying out your side bars first with all the ad ons, extras and goodies if possible because the length of your side bar will also determine the length of your blog and how many posts that you display on the home page.
There are millions of blogs on line so take some time to look around and determine which blogging community and template that you want to start out with, how you want the overall appearance of your blog to look and this will make things a lot easier. If you use blogger to build and launch your blog spend some time in the management program viewing all the templates, ad ons and extras. This will make your designing process and finished product go and look much cleaner.
- Check out God's Nuggets, a Christian Authors Blog unfolding to see a blog in it's beginning stages.
Something else to consider from the get go is your blog address. Think this one out and create a blog address that best describes your blog, you as author or your book.
And the best part, if you choose blogger just follow the simple instructions and you will be live and online in minutes.
