Thread: Changing settings

By changing the settings, you can further customize your blog more to your liking. You can change the blog image, tagline of the blog, comment moderation and
so on. In the 'General Settings', you can change the Blog Title, Tagline, Timezone and date/time format for your blog. Simply type in the relevant text box and select the appropriate option from the drop down menu to do this. In the 'Writing' settings, set the size of the post box, 'Formatting' and the default post and link category. The 'Reading' setting allows you to set options for the readers such as adding your post to Digg, Del.icio.us or Reddit etc. Here you can also set the number of posts visible on the page and other related options. To add Digg, Del.icio.us etc just click the checkbox and type the number in the 'Blog pages show at most' text box.



To change the comment settings, click 'Discussion Settings' and click the check boxes to enable different options such as Default article settings, Before a comment appears etc. You can also define and choose to discard a comment in the 'Comment Blacklist' option. Type out the words, URL, E-mail or IP address and the comments containing the same will be discarded automatically. You can also choose to show the avatar of the person posting the comment. Just select the appropriate radio button and choose to show avatars and also choose the default avatar.

These are all the options you need to use. You can try a combination of colors, and other settings to chq"nge the look of your blog. After creating it you can also view statistics such as the number of hits in the 'Dashboard'. Just expand the 'Dashboard' and click 'Blob Stats' to view the weekly, monthly and yearly stats. To reach out to more readers just post the link of your blog on your social networking site and let everybody get a glimpse of your world!