How To Add A New Header Image

There are different ways to add a header to your blog. This is just one way and you get a FREE imaging studio and use it to make your images the way you want. First you will want to down load Gimp. This is a FREE imaging studio software that you will be happy with I am sure. For the price, you cant beat it. To download Gimp you can click HERE. There are also tutorials on You Tube of how to use Gimp.
I will show you how to use gimp to add Images to your header, and place them where you want.
First lets start with a basic Image witch i will go create in my Gimp.

I have created an basic image and saved it to my pictures.

Now I will add some text like Welcome to my blog by choosing the Text tool.

I have added the text and saved it. This is what the image looks like now. ( This is a basic tutorial, so you can change fonts, text color's, size of text, and many other things.)

Now lets put an Image on our banner. You need the image you want to add to the banner in your pictures.

Go back to your Gimp software and open the banner, unless you have kept it open. Then hit file, then open, then choose the image you want to place in your header. This is to size the image to place in your header. Use the scale tool to make the image the size you want. I have made our banner 425 px wide and 150 px long, so I need to make the Image we are putting in fit.

So click on the scale tool and adjust the Image we are putting in. I have made the Image we are putting in 125 px by 100 px. Then choose the crop tool (little knife), and crop the new Image. This will take out the gray where we have scaled it. Then hit save as, and rename the image so you will still have the original. I usually do this by adding a 2. You will be asked to export, choose yes. I drag the image bar to 100% when exporting.

Now the new image is located in your pictures. Now we add the picture. Go to your header Image and hit file again. Then choose open as layer. This will let you open the Image you have in your pictures in your new header.Then you can choose the move tool to move the new Image added to you header Image.

When you have the Image the way you want hit file, then save as. Be sure to have it saved as .jpg To do this, after the image name just make sure it says .jpg     Now the Image is in your pictures and can be loaded to your blog as a header picture.

You will want to play around with this until you get familiar with Gimp. If you have any questions feel free to contact me.

How To Make Money On Your Blog Website

Well, there are many different ways to make money on your blog website. One way is by letting Google place ads on your blog site, which we talked about in our tutorial on AdSense. This is basically a you get paid when someone clicks on an ad. This is called Pay Per Click, or PPC.

   Other ways to make some extra money on your blog site, is to be an affiliate with companies who sell products in the same category of your site. To get affiliated with these companies usually all you need to do is apply. For example: I am an affiliate of amazon.com , and on this site I have a store, and a few ads that I have placed on the blog. When you or anyone go's to amazon.com by clicking on a banner, add, or through my Blogger Mart store, I get a commission on anything purchased there. You can find an affiliate company for just about any type of blog you have. Many times if you go to a website and scroll to the bottom, there will be a spot that says affiliate.You can usually click on the affiliate link to apply  Here is another example. I am an affiliate of Christian books .com. I have to other blog sites. One is Video Sermon, and the other is an Audio Picture Bible blog I built. Now for my affiliate through CBDcom I get a 10% Communion on sales. Different affiliate programs will have different commission.

To generate money on your blog site (in my opinion) all you need to do is help people. Have products that the person who visits your blog site might need or be looking for. When you have good content on your blog site you will start to get traffic. When you start to get traffic you will see that you will get clicks and sales.
I hope this helps you with you getting to know affiliates and how thay work.

The Differance Between Pages and Posts

Many people try and use pages as another way to post on different subjects. This is not good for you blog, or you time. It takes time to go to a page and delete the content you have, just to make new content for that page. Plus after you have deleted the old content, your viewers can not go back to what you deleted if they needed to see it again.

   Pages are just a way to put content up that will not be edited often, Like an about this site page, or maybe a contact page, as you see I have here in this blog. Here is an example - You have a blog where you sell birth stone jewelry. You might want a page that has all the birthstones posted by month. That will be a page that will not get edited.

Now, how to organize your subjects in your blog. For this we have labels. When you make a post to your blog, there will be a spot at the bottom of the page (before you publish the post) that says labels. You just type in the label or labels (separated by a coma ) that you want for that post, Then hit publish. When someone clicks on that label, all your post's with that label will be shown to them. Example, I have a blog about stock's and money. In 6 out of my 20 post's there is a lable mutual fund. If someone clicks on the mutual fund label then all 6 post's with that label will be shown to them.

This is a good way to keep your post's organized, and let readers find what they need on your site.

I hope this helps you with the differance between pages and post's

You can post as often as you like, as long as you do not go over 50 post's a day. This number is set by Blogger, to keep people from spaming.

Getting Started

To make a blog website, you will first need a Google account. This is very simple to do if you do not already have a Google account. Just go to create Google account and your on your way. If you have a Google account you can just sign in from the above link.

After you have made your account you are ready to create you blog website.  First you will need a title. We will use this blog site as an example. The title to this site is "The Blogger Pages, How To". Then you will need a URL (web address) this will be the address of your site.The address to this site is http://thebloggerpageshowto.blogspot.com/ You can make the address what ever you want, just check to see if its available. Then type in the word verification then hit continue to go to the next page and pick your template. Once you choose a template you can start posting. Don't worry about the template choice you make, if you don't like it, you can always change it later.

How To Make A Post

This will also be easy to learn if you have never done this before. I am keeping this simple for those who have never attempted a blog site before. So skilled blog masters might want to skip this step.

To make a post just hit new post on your blogs dashboard, you should get a screen like this. Then Title you post. After you have a title to the post you are about to write, just write what you want for that post. Along the top you have tools to help. Their is a spell check, add a video, add an image, underline, Bold, Italic, Large and Small Text, and different Fonts. You can also add color to your text, or a background color. When you are finished just hit publish post.