Sunday, December 18, 2011

How to subscribe to a blogspot blog

One of my readers pointed out that it's less than obvious how to subscribe to my blog with the new interface that the google blogspot people have created.  I suspect the problem is one of visual and verbal semantic confusion. I will explain in a moment, but first, the pictures.
To get started, click on the house icon on the far right of the black menu bar that stretches across the page near the top right under the blog's banner. As you can see on the lower left of the image, or as you might see if you magnify the picture, this will take you to blogger.com/home.  So whoever named the files called the page home and so put up a little icon of a house, but when you get to the blogger.com/home, the title of the page has changed to dashboard.  Maybe this is confusing, maybe it isn't. 


In any case, this is what the dashboard looks like.  To sign up for the blog, scroll down a bit till you get a screen that looks something like this:

And there it is, the ADD button down in the lower left of the page.  Press that, and you're subscribed.  I think. Maybe it's that easy.  Maybe it isn't.  If you don't have a google account, you probably have to create one first to get a dashboard. 
Let me know if your experience is different from mine.
Meanwhile, I think I'll go and subscribe to indigenousboats.blogspot.com so I can see how this subscribing thing works.

1 comment:

joshua rogers said...

Thanks for that little snippet of information. Why don't they have a big 'subscribe' button?