Blogger Formatting

There are many formatting options that are pretty straightforward (date and time formatting, time zone, etc.). There are also some formatting settings that are specific to the world of blogging, which are explained below.

You can choose what to Show on the main blog page. You can choose to display a certain number of posts, or posts from a certain time period. The default option is to show the posts from the preceding seven days on the main page. If you have a very active blog, you might want to display less; if you have a blog that is less active, you might want to designate a specific number of posts to show instead.

The default setting for Line Breaks is "Yes", which means that when you hit the Enter key as you type your post, this will be equivalent to hitting the Enter (return) key in a word processor. This is usually what people prefer when they are creating their posts. However, if you are going to be writing your posts in HTML, or cutting-and-pasting your posts from an HTML editor such as Dreamweaver, then you must change this option to "No" (since HTML uses a different system for indicating line breaks in a text).

By default the Title you give to the post is included.

A Links field can also be included, but this requires some advanced editing of your template, so beginning users will probably not use this option.

Finally, you can create a Post Template , which is very useful if each of your posts is going to follow a standard kind of format. For example, if you are doing a blog about movies, you could create a Post Template that would prompt you to always start with the title of the movie, the director, the date and venue where you saw the movie, etc. The Post Template is only a prompt; for any given post, you can override the content of the template and create something totally different if you want.