Using Blogger as FTP for your own site
-- UPDATE 2/2/2010 --
Google has announced that they're stopping the FTP option for Blogger. See this post on Google stopping FTP for more details
-- END OF UPDATE --
Google has made Blogger much harder to use for publishing a blog to your own, existing website - but only by 'hiding' the options you need. Here, I'll show you how to set up Blogger to publish via FTP to your own site.
(Why have Google changed things? Probably because they're now pushing the 'register your own domain with us' option, to make some more money, but that's only supposition)
Blogger doesn't have the reputation of the likes of WordPress, which is much more customisable and now with myriad, and high quality, free templates on which to base your whole site, rather than just a simple blog page.
But that's where Blogger still fits in - if you've already got a website and want to integrate a blog, but don't want to pay someone to rebuild the whole site, Blogger's the quickest and simplest way of doing it.
Blogger runs on even the simplest of hosting, and writing posts is easy, if a little dull, using the post editor. You can get a web designer to set up a blog that fits into your own, existing site in a couple of hours at most, giving you a blog that's exactly the same in format as the rest of your site (because you aren't tied to Blogger templates, you can simply use the code from your own site as a template).
Anyway, here's what to do (this assumes you've already got your domain name and hosting package bought, and just want to use Blogger to publish to that site):
1) Sign in to Blogger using your Google account (create one if you need).
2) Choose 'create a blog', and fill in the 'blog title' and 'blog URL' with whatever you like (it doesn't matter with what - the title can be changed later, and the URL won't be used)
3) Choose any template, and click continue - it'll tell you 'your blog has been created', so click 'start blogging'.
4) Go to the 'Settings' tab, and chose 'Publish', where you'll see that the 'FTP' option is no longer visible. But don't panic - click where it says 'use a Classic Template'.
5) This takes you to the template screen - scroll to the bottom, and click 'Revert to Classic Template' (you might get a dialogue box - don't worry, it's OK to say yes)
6) Go back to the 'Settings' tab and choose 'Publish' again - now you'll see that the FTP and SFTP publishing options are there.
You can now click either of these and enter your FTP settings & publish to your own hosting package like before
Google has announced that they're stopping the FTP option for Blogger. See this post on Google stopping FTP for more details
-- END OF UPDATE --
Google has made Blogger much harder to use for publishing a blog to your own, existing website - but only by 'hiding' the options you need. Here, I'll show you how to set up Blogger to publish via FTP to your own site.
(Why have Google changed things? Probably because they're now pushing the 'register your own domain with us' option, to make some more money, but that's only supposition)
Blogger doesn't have the reputation of the likes of WordPress, which is much more customisable and now with myriad, and high quality, free templates on which to base your whole site, rather than just a simple blog page.
But that's where Blogger still fits in - if you've already got a website and want to integrate a blog, but don't want to pay someone to rebuild the whole site, Blogger's the quickest and simplest way of doing it.
Blogger runs on even the simplest of hosting, and writing posts is easy, if a little dull, using the post editor. You can get a web designer to set up a blog that fits into your own, existing site in a couple of hours at most, giving you a blog that's exactly the same in format as the rest of your site (because you aren't tied to Blogger templates, you can simply use the code from your own site as a template).
Anyway, here's what to do (this assumes you've already got your domain name and hosting package bought, and just want to use Blogger to publish to that site):
1) Sign in to Blogger using your Google account (create one if you need).
2) Choose 'create a blog', and fill in the 'blog title' and 'blog URL' with whatever you like (it doesn't matter with what - the title can be changed later, and the URL won't be used)
3) Choose any template, and click continue - it'll tell you 'your blog has been created', so click 'start blogging'.
4) Go to the 'Settings' tab, and chose 'Publish', where you'll see that the 'FTP' option is no longer visible. But don't panic - click where it says 'use a Classic Template'.
5) This takes you to the template screen - scroll to the bottom, and click 'Revert to Classic Template' (you might get a dialogue box - don't worry, it's OK to say yes)6) Go back to the 'Settings' tab and choose 'Publish' again - now you'll see that the FTP and SFTP publishing options are there.You can now click either of these and enter your FTP settings & publish to your own hosting package like beforeLabels: online-marketing, tutorial, web-design
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