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Once you’ve created your blog, the first thing you will see is the dashboard, which is like the hub or HQ of the blog from which everything happens. This e-course provides a step-by-step process to explain the first half of the dashboard. It will show you what happens in a blog contains ‘behind the scenes’, making the process less daunting, and giving you more confidence to advance further into your blogging project.

Now let’s finish setting your blog up ‘behind the scenes’. This e-course provides a step-by-step process to explain the second half of the dashboard. This contains the blog’s settings, which should be completed to maximise your blog’s performance and make it run more smoothly.

So what are widgets and how can they improve my blog? If you look at your blog’s sidebar, you will see some bits of programming that allow you to visit your pages, click on past posts, and see what you’ve archived since you started blogging. These are widgets, and Wordpress has provided many for you to use and set up. This e-course is a step by step guide to widgets, how to locate them, what they do and how to put them onto your sidebar. Their many functions could enhance your blog for both you and your readers.

Let’s set up your outgoing links from your sidebar. Blogs and search engines thrive on links. The Links Widget (see my other e-course ‘What and how to use widgets’) allows you to link to your website and other blogs, or to other websites you deem to be important to your blog and its subject matter. This e-course is a step by step guide to how to create external links on your sidebar. It is sometimes a neglected attribute which I think should not be ignored through misunderstanding of its true function.

Do you want to change how your blog looks? Wordpress provides a simple template by default which certainly functional, but not necessarily individual. There are several free designs to choose from, or your can customise your blog’s appearance by adding your own banner to match your corporate branding. This e-course is a step by step guide on how to change or improve your blog’s appearance, truly the way to personalise your blog.

“How do I get into my blog?” I have heard this many times from frustrated beginner bloggers who have proudly created a blog and return to it later to write their first posts, only to be able to see it online, but cannot find a way to get in! Fear not, there are in fact four ways to get into the dashboard, and this e-course is a step by step guide to show you how.