These series of images shows all the steps taken in the making of Writersfor..com right from creating an account to setting up and posting. It is a continuous project, hence the name reality training. You will see shots of every act take in making it and in blogging day by day.

Account confirmation etc. Better to select call verification instead of SMS.

Now that we've created and verified a Google account (using an existing yahoo email address), it is time for a blogger account setup.

We setup a blogger/Google account using an existing email (a yahoo mail address, you can use any email you have beforehand). Now it is time to find a good name for the blog. Having a nice name was important to us. We chose writersfor . . com.

Now we are done with the account, creating a blogger blog and finally have access to a dashboard. Now we have access to joining and making an impact in blogosphere with our simple blog for training bloggers.

This is the selected look for our blog. There are a variety of designs you can chose from too.

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We proceed to Layout (available on the left side of the dashboard screen). On the Layout screen, we add and arrange GADGETs. Gadgets are the equivalent of Wordpress widgets.

After that, we edit the Gadget About Me. We add image, some description and other information.

After modifying the GADGETs, this is the preview of the site. Notice that we now have "Hello Nigerians ... Hello World! ..." message at the top of the screen. This is because we added a header widget.

However the description is too long, thereby making the whole thing ugly. User interface is very important for blogs like it is for any things in life.

We go back to edit the header panel. Now it is looking better.

Back to the dashboard and the menu on the left of the screen. There is a Template option on the menu. That is where we can select a different look for the writersfor. blog. See some of the possible looks the blog can have.

We proceed to edit our profile, and add some basic information. It is good to have a full profile if you can. That is part of what counts as a quality blog.

So this is how we ended up with a many-heads profile image.

Since most people will be using mobile devices to visit writersfor. blog, we are concerned about what it will look like on mobile devices. Nicely though, Blogger allows us to select whatever template we want for the mobile version of the site. It is right there under the Template menu.

Here are some possible looks for our mobile site.

This is another nice option and I note it for when we need to change the default mobile template.

We proceed to structure the blog. We want to add a page. Your blog will need pages for many possible reasons. In this instance we are adding a page which will give a summary of what the writersfor. project is about.

To add a page in Blogger, return to the menu of the left side of the dashboard. There is a Page menu there.

The editor screen should be familiar to you if you are a Google Docs user. On the right hand is a gears icon. You can access more page settings there. Intermediate and advanced users who understand all that is available there may need it.

The editor has enough features to make a decent document, and easily too. We begin with our first page. This gets exciting now.

We add text and format the document with headings etc.

We add a link to WHAT (what.com.ng) and to Nairaland. It is easy to add links. You can also test the hyperlink. It is a nice feature to ensure you got the URL right.

We head to Nairaland so we can start an update of the first part of the training which covers how to open up and setup a blog.
Why did we do that? Because there is a community here, and we wanted them to benefit from the training. It will add to their knowledge and give visibility to our project too.

At the end of this session, we have a blog, we have a blog http://writersfor..com.ng/, the blog has a single page writersfor..com.ng/p/writersforblogspotcom.html. We have a basic but professional look to the blog already and we are set to begin blogging.

If you check the page, you will find out that there is a upper menu and you can access our pages. There are Home and WritersforBlogspot items already. How did we do that? Can you figure it out? Well here are the screenshots.

Over to the dashboard, Layout menu, and then Add Gadget. Look for the Pages Gadget and drop it on the sidebar.

Drag the gadget from the region called sidebar-right-1 to main.

Finally this is what the efforts of this session has given us.

I can tell you that you can easily setup a blog if you have been using the Internet regularly for years. It is not hard to do it. We've shown you all the screenshots of the various steps. Study the screens and then go create a blog now. The next session will see us start the blogging proper.

Good you are here at the end of a long series of screenshots. You want to find out about me? Send me mail at fadingmail-chapta.yahoo.com.

We continue with the training session after a hour break.

There is a page and no post yet. We want to post a blog article. What should we write about? While we can write about anything, we would rather not waste our time and our space writing about a topic that no one is searching for.

How do we know what people are searching for?

This is our time to lay the rules clearly - the failure of a blog starts from blogging something that no one is searching for. The second cause of failure is not promoting the blog after you have clearly fouled rule number 1.

This is where we will start the first set of topics on writersfor. from - Google.

See the screenshot here.

So here is our scheme of things - our major business is to train people to blog, don't forget. So we would look at topics related to our objective.

1. Write about what is a blog
2. About how to start a blog
3. How to create a blog
4. How to start a blog for free
5. How to blog in Nigeria
6. How to start a blog and make money
7. What is a blog
8. .com.ng and Wordpress

Topics 1 - 8 related to blogging but we can do better. So let's find out what people are looking for in our main focus - learning.

9. Learn how to blog *

Now what is the next thing to do? The next thing to do is to write or to go find some content somewhere. Now this is where another rule should be laid down. Never copy and paste. Do not do it for any reason. The day you copy and paste articles or even ideas consider yourself no longer a blogger.

I will spin a new topic from here on writersfor..com

https://writersfor..com.ng/2016/05/i-want-to-teach-nigerians-how-to-start.html

The first blog post is up and you can learn how to get ideas from your blog topic over there. The link is in the post before this one. I will attach one screenshot.