It’s as simple as:

1.  Log into your Edublogs (or Edublogs Campus) account

2.  Go to the Edublogs signup page or your Edublogs Campus sign-up page

3.  Name your blog and click Signup

• Use only lowercase letters and numbers, with no spaces, in your Blog Domain
• Your Blog domain can’t be changed once created
  • Use a domain that reflects what your blog is about and is unique
  • Keep in mind people need to be able to remember and easily type your blog domain into their browser – where possible try to keep it short but meaningful
• Don’t stress too much about your blog title as this can be changed any time in Settings > General.

4.  You’ll be sent an email with your new blog login details.

• The password will be missing because you log in with your existing username and password.

]]> http://help.edublogs.org/2009/08/28/creating-new-blogs/feed/ 0 http://help.edublogs.org/2009/08/28/tips-when-creating-blogs/ http://help.edublogs.org/2009/08/28/tips-when-creating-blogs/#comments Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:15:15 +0000 Sue Waters http://help.edublogs.org/?p=826 The most common reasons why you would want to create new blogs include:

1. You want to blog on a different topic;
2. You want your students to have their own blogs

These tips will help you avoid common blog creation problems:

1.  Use only lowercase letters and numbers in the blog URL (blog domain) and don’t have any spaces in the blog URL (blog domain)
2.  Use only lowercase letters and numbers, with no spaces, in your username

3. Keep in mind people need to be able to remember and easily type your blog URL into their browser – where possible try to keep your blog URL short but meaningful
4.  Don’t stress too much about your blog title as this can be changed any time.
5.  Your username is what you use to sign into your blog dashboard and is displayed on posts and comments you write. You can’t change your username, you can change what name is displayed. 6.  New users are sent an activation email when the blog is set up using the sign-up page

7. Spam filters, especially strict ones for institutional email addresses, may well block username and login information from reaching users. In this case you should use free webmail accounts that won’t block the emails (such as gmail.com, hotmail.com or mail.yahoo.com)
8.  Until a blog is activated your account doesn’t exist in our system.  Users have 48 hours to click on link in activation email to activate their blog.
9.  If your activation email doesn’t arrive within one hour, and it isn’t in your spam folder, you will need to create a new account using a free web based email such as gmail, hotmail or yahoo.
10.  If your students do not have email addresses you can use Gmail method however creating lots of users using one gmail account isn’t recommended because it means all password resets need to be done via that email address