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Garden blogs - adding pages

15 years ago

If you use Google Blogger, you can have more than one blog and then you can link them together like I do on mine.

When you first sign into your blog, you are at your 'Dashboard' that shows you the blogs you have. In the upper right hand corner there (right straight across from "manage blogs") there is link called "create a blog". This link will take you to a page where you can create another blog for yourself.

What I do is name it the exact same name as my first blog, only add a "2" at the end of the name so I know which blog I'm posting to. For instance my blog name is melissa-majora. The new blog I created is melissa-majora2 (and my next blog was melissa-majora3). You set it up just like you set up your original blog, pick your layouts, fonts, etc. For consistency sake, I used the same layout on all pages so the blogs all look more like a website than a lot of individual blogs. I also put the same password on each blog. (Saves my poor brain from having to learn new stuff.)

One tip, when you do your layouts, where you can put the TITLE of the blog, make it different enough from your original blog, else when you come into your dashboard next time, it looks like you have 2 blogs the same. (ie: my original blog is called "The Gardens at Melissa Majora". I titled the 2nd blog "Melissa Majora - Flowers" and the 3rd blog "Melissa Majora - Vegetables". By putting different titles on each, you can easily pick which blog you are going to post to during that visit.

On your original blog, if you don't already have a gadget that lets you link out to other pages, just go to the layout link and select a link gadget. Then when asked to put in a link, put in the name of your 'next page' of blog. ie: to link from my original blog page to the 2nd blog, the link is like this: http://www.melissa-majora2.blogspot.com Then, when the visitor clicks on this link, presto! They are on the 2nd blog "page". They can use their 'back' button to return to the 1st blog.

You can see this multi-blogging/linking action at my blog.

Good luck! And if ya need more info...ya know where to find me. :-)

Kris

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token28001
15 years ago
Thanks Kris. I have already done that. I was hoping Blogger had a way to simply add another page to an existing blog. Now, if I could just remember the name of the other blog. I've got too much stuff rumbling around in my head.
kiddo_1
Original Author
15 years ago
Oh, I should mention. It took me a couple days to work things out and during that time I made several 'bad' blogs. If your 'new' blog isn't up to snuff, it's really easy to delete it and then start all over.

On your 'Dashboard' screen, click on the "setting" link on the blog you want to delete. At the next screen the top line is 'blog tools'. One of the choices there is DELETE. I used it a several times. ;-)

Kris
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Nell Jean
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Try to keep in mind what you're doing and somehow make sure about names of new blogs. Once deleted, you can't get your blog back, but there's a glitch in there somehow that lets somebody else 'steal' unused blogs. One that I deleted was picked up by a bot and turned into a soft porn site filled with links. I was able to get it totally deleted by blogspot, but it took a lot of effort. I found it by luck, else my old site would still be used for something I never intended.

Delete the contents and start over using the same blog name, don't delete a blog.

Nell
kiddo_1
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Good advice, Nell. The blogs I deleted were names I created just for testing, expecting to delete them when finished.

Too bad there are people out there determined to make nasty out of nice. *sigh*
Kris

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