Blogger.com Setup Checklist

Follow these steps to get your blog ready for prime time:

1. Set up your new blog in Blogger.com. Use the blogspot.com hosting to begin.
2. Post some content. I like to start with something like “Welcome to my blog! It’s about ....” In other words, post your statement of purpose.
3. Test your blog by viewing it. Tweak the layout and settings as required.
4. Move your blog to the “official” URL
5. Insert Google Analytics code into your blog. Test to see if the code is inserted correctly by reloading your blog and selecting View Source.
6. Go to your Google Analytics Settings and [Check Status] of your blog. Be patient -- it may take Analytics a few hours to recognize your site, even if it’s configured properly.

Blogger.com browser performance

I was using the Blogger. com Create Post form in Camino on my 1 GHz iBook Mac, gforce (640 MB RAM), and it was so easy for me to get ahead of the cursor that I had to give it up. My G4 processor kept maxing out, too. It was like wading through Jello. Now, I'm on Firefox running on an 1 GHz Intel Pentium III Gateway, the Goat, with 256 MB of RAM, The Goat is running Windows XP, and the CPU working, but it never gets above 60% or so. This translates into very comfortable performance. So, Blogger.com is basically unusable on the Mac G4. It's fine on my G5 iMac, iFive, also running Camino. Windows XP and Firefox perform admirably on the Pentium III at the same chip speed, 1 GHz.