Blogger: preparation: sign up for GMail
The service we will use for blogging in this course is Blogger.com (http://www.blogger.com). Blogger.com is owned by Google, and is very popular worldwide. If possible we will use Blogger beta, because this is much better than the original Blogger.com.
Before we use any kind of web service like Blogger.com, we have to sign up. This means we tell Blogger.com who we are. The most important thing we need for this is an email address. Your university email address is not ideal for this, because you may not be able to use it when you are outside the university. So we will use a webmail service called GMail, also owned by Google. You will use this email address when you sign up for Blogger.com, and when you sign up for any other web service.
The most important thing to remember is:
- You must write down your GMail username and password! You need this to check your mail and to use Blogger. If you forget other passwords, you can usually get a new one through GMail. But if you can't use GMail, things will be very difficult.
And two more things to remember: sign up means to become a member; sign in means to log in as a member to use the service. So you only sign up once, but you sign in every time you want to use the service.
