What is a blog?
A blog is essentially a series of postings on a particular subject which are listed in reverse chronological order. These blogs may be about a variety of different subjects and may be personal, political, informative, humorous or any other category desired by the blogger.
What is Balogney.com?
Balogney.com is one of the many options available to bloggers who are looking for free software online which makes it incredibly easy to publish their own blog. This site is easy to use and provides a variety of templates, all for free.
There are many options available to bloggers and other blogging programs may be better known and offer slightly different features but as you can tell by viewing our blog directory, many bloggers are quite pleased with Balogney.
Sign Up & Activate
To get started, you need to sign up for an account by clicking the Register link at the top of the page. On the first screen, you will be asked for a username, password, and email address. You must select whether you would like a blog URL such as Balogney.com/USERNAME
created or if you want to setup a username-only account.
A username-only account is useful if you just need an API key for your self-hosted blog or if you just want to be able to access a private Balogney.com blog (note that you must also be given permission by the blog owner after you setup an account). If you choose to create a blog when you sign up, you will be able to choose the blog domain (or blog URL) on the second screen in the sign up process. You cannot change the blog URL once it is created. You’ll also see options to set a blog title, language, and search engine privacy on the second screen. All of those options can be changed in the settings pages later. Next, check your email for your activation link and click on the link to activate your new account. If you don’t receive the email right away, just contact support and we’ll send you the activation link again.
What Next?
Once you have activated your Balogney.com account, you should login to Balogney.com using the login link at the top left of the home page. After you login, you’ll see a gray admin bar along the top of all Balogney.com web pages. The admin bar has quick links for getting to your account pages, blog dashboard, creating a new post, and more. Click on the My Dashboard link to get to the settings and editing pages for your new blog. Now that you’ve found the dashboard for your blog, you may want to customize the blog title and tagline. You can do that by clicking Settings on the left menu.
Start Writing!
To create a new post, go to Posts > Add New from the dashboard or use the New Post link in the gray admin bar shown at the top of Balogney.com pages while you are logged in. If you see a “not found” message on your blog home page, that’s because you haven’t added any posts or set a static front page yet. See the 404 Not Found Error page to learn how to fix it.