commenting on my blog; HOW TO.

I've had several different people wonder how to post directly on the blog, and rather than explain it 15 different times, I thought I'd just go ahead and tell you all how to do it.

Click on this link:

Create A Google Account

It's pretty simple from there, but I went ahead and took the liberty of creating an account for Jesse, and I've got some step-by-step pictures here to help out.

The link should take you to this page:

Fill the form out.

This will give you a new email address, that you will use to log in, or a little later in the process you can change that to any email address you would rather use.

Make sure you uncheck that box that I circled in red. You more than likely don't want that.

Click on the "Next Step" button and you should see this: (with your name, not Jesse's ;)

Click on "Get Started" and that brings you to this page:

if you want to change your email address so you can forget about this new one, click on the "Edit" button right beside "Email"

Enter in the email address you want to use. It can't be a gmail-cus DUH that means you already have a google account and have been through this process before and have no reason to be doing it again. It can't be an email address that is already linked to another google account, which would also mean that you already have a google account, or someone has been using your email to access their google account.

Save that.

Then, go to my blog.

Oh.

You're already here.

Go to the top of the page:

Sign in with your username (the email that you selected) and your password.

That will bring you to this page:

For the purposes of commenting, you want to select the "Blogger Profile" which gives you this screen:

Fill in with the name that you want to show on your profile, and "Continue to Blogger."

That will bring you to your profile where you can start a blog of your own, or create a list of blogs that you follow, etc. But I'm just showing you how to comment, so...back to my blog.

You are now signed in, and will stay signed in on any page you have open in the browser, until you close it.

That's how you know you are signed in and ready to comment.

So go to the post you want to comment on, scroll to the bottom, "add a comment," and from the drop down menu, select "-yourprofilenamehere-(Google)." And don't ask me why this one says "Unknown (Google)" It should say "hubster."

Type your comment, and "Publish."

Naturally, they are going to want proof that you are not a robot. Please comply.

Hit publish, and TA-DAH. You have posted your very own comment.

So what information will the general public be able to see about you when they click on your name in the comment section?

Nothing except your profile name and the month you created your profile. And how many nosy people have clicked over to see what they can find out about you.

If you want to change anything about the information shown on your profile, click on the "Edit Profile" in the upper right corner, and go from there. If you can't figure it out from that point, I'll be glad to help, but the purpose of this post was to show you how to get set up where you can comment on my blog, not explain away the entire internets!

So. Now there can be no excuses for not commenting! :)

And here's something to brighten your day:

Thank you for reading my blog!