Blogger is one of the best
blogging platforms you can get around the world. As a blogger or aspiring web
developer, blogger gives you unlimited ways to structure your website with the knowledge
of HTML, CSS, JSCRIPT, PHP and many more language. Blogger offers you cheap
ways to try something new in your web career; you don’t have to worry about
hosting because it’s covered by Google.
The following reasons are why you need to
start with blogger as a Web Developer to start a wonderful career without
spending a lot on hosting, plug-in, scripts or any item you need to put on your
website.
- · Fast Blogging and HTML / SCRIPT Gadget.
Blogger
offers you nice platform to start your blogging and web developer career. They
help you achieve a lot through monetizing your content, you have unlimited ways
to do things on blogger with the help of HTML / SCRIPT gadget. As a young
aspiring Web Developer who love to work with things without worrying about hosting.
Even though you are not ready yet to buy a customize domain, you can still have
a good URL to invite people to visit your blog or website and check out your
work / project you are working on.
Blogger is
very easy to create, just like creating a Google Mail. The process is easy for freshers in the ICT world to be able to understand as long they can read and
understand.
- · Convert to Static Website.
You can also
convert / change your blogger to a static website. These processes are for companies
/ individuals who wish to have a blogging page and also a static page. They run
the blog as a normal blogging page for content / article about their product,
services or information. The static page can be used for other things like
Contact Us page, Gallery / Event, Voting or Poll etc. All this depend on your choose or what you
want to achieve.
As a Web
developer, working with blogger is a good start to understand how the internet
works. It gives you an idea on how to achieve a task with limited tools and no
already made plug-in like WordPress. This task helps you to do more research
and also find more works to make your blogging platform interesting and dynamic
to your visitors.
- · Link to Bootstrap Framework.
Bootstrap Framework created by Twitter can be link easily to your Blogger to give your
visitor the best and smooth mobile view. Bootstrap is one of the most widely
use front-end script that helps you create a responsive website with great
features across all mobile screen and size.
There are
many benefit if you link Bootstrap with your blogger, you get can easily
customize your default gadget, pages, post, icon, structure, text, color, style
and image slide of your entire blog. It gives your blog a new look with modern
structure and interface. Linking your Blogger with Bootstrap framework is very easy;
you don’t need to worry about crashing your website or blog. Just visit
Bootstrap official website copy the CDN script and paste it in between your
header tag and start writing your HTML or CSS codes in the HTML / SCRIPT
gadget.
- · Link with JSCRIPT.
Just like
Bootstrap you can also link your Blogger with Jscript to help you create a
stylish responsive interface and plug-in. You can use HTML / SCRIPT gadget to
achieve this. Inside the gadget you write your program and also move it to your
preferred location to work. You can also choose whether to display in your
mobile view or desktop. Jscript helps in styling our blog; you can customize
how your slide moves, or how page can display to visitors.
Linking Jscript to your blog makes you display some animation in your blog. You can place it on your sidebar, footer or body tag. Any way you choose, you are sure to have a dynamic and responsive view or feature on your blog / website.
Linking Jscript to your blog makes you display some animation in your blog. You can place it on your sidebar, footer or body tag. Any way you choose, you are sure to have a dynamic and responsive view or feature on your blog / website.
Learning how
to use the language is an added bonus in blogging, you can easily write your
code without the help of a third party or a paid plug-in to do that. Plug-in like Facebook share, like or other social
media platform can be created with the knowledge of Jscript. Testing your
programming skills on Blogger is the first steps you need to take to enable you
understand how the whole web development process works.
- · Customize your Mobile View.
Blogger
gives you the opportunity to customize your mobile view to help your visitor
coming to your website / blog with their mobile phone to have a new look of
your website. You can have two interfaces on your website (Static and Mobile).
Static pages works best on desktop, while mobile view work on mobile devices. The
ability to make your blog / website responsive can help you boost your site
load time, search engine ranking and many more.
Not every gadget can be display in your mobile view, because it’s expected to have a simple but dynamic style for mobile users to be able to easily navigate around your blog / website. But you can edit this and also active any gadget to display on your mobile view like image slide, gallery or some additional feature / plug-in you wish to display on your page.
Not every gadget can be display in your mobile view, because it’s expected to have a simple but dynamic style for mobile users to be able to easily navigate around your blog / website. But you can edit this and also active any gadget to display on your mobile view like image slide, gallery or some additional feature / plug-in you wish to display on your page.
Mobile users
are on the raise, and it’s expected to give them a responsive and simple mobile
view that can help them move around easily in your website. This will also make
them to come back to your page if it has rich and interesting content for
visitors.
- · Connect to Google Drive.
This process
is mainly for those who wish to have a download link connected to their website
/ blog. Blogger does not support users to upload audio file directly to their
blog but you can upload them to your Google Drive and create the link in your
post or page. You can use Google Drive to upload any file and also create a
link to it. Google Drive serve as a storage space for your website / blog
files, it can be use to upload big files for visitors’ to download without
having issue with expire link and Google Drive storage comes with 15Gigabyte of
space and you can extend it but you have to pay.
Google Drive
just like other file sharing site is very secure and easy to share with
visitors without worrying about losing your link or file. Connecting Google Drive to your blog gives you an advantage to reduce heavy file on your blog / website,
which can slow down your website loading speed and it can discourage your
visitors to come back to your site if they find it hard to access their
information. Google Drive saves you cost of having a hosting plan and you will
need to pay for storage space.
- · Easy to Convert to Android App.
You can
easily convert your Blogger to Android app so that people can install it to
their phone through play store or direct download link on your blog. The
essence of converting your blog to Android app is that it gives your visitors
easy access to your blog by clicking on your blog icon on their phone.
This helps them to stay up to date to interesting content you have on your blog. Some app enables users to have push notification so as to get latest news / breaking news instantly as you publish them.
This helps them to stay up to date to interesting content you have on your blog. Some app enables users to have push notification so as to get latest news / breaking news instantly as you publish them.
There are
many sites that can easy convert your Blogger to Android app for free, while
some will require you to pay before you can get some nice features like
Notification, Adding Ads or customized UI. Find your time to research on the
ones best suit your needs so that you can give your viewers quick and advance
way of blogging with your Android phone.
- · Free Hosting and Customized Domain Name.
Blogger
comes with free hosting, which is what makes it unique. You can choose to move
to other hosting platform when you start making money out of it. As a aspiring
Web Developer Blogger offers you opportunity to never worry about paying for
hosting which is somehow expensive as soon as your traffic gets bigger. Not
everybody can afford hosting plan in Nigeria as a fresh Blogger / Web Developer,
this can render someone’s dreams useless when you can’t find a way to host your
blog / website.
So starting with blogger is the first step to go when you can afford a hosting plan or domain name but you have to start something then start growing from there.
So starting with blogger is the first step to go when you can afford a hosting plan or domain name but you have to start something then start growing from there.
Blogger has many
unique features that you can use to create a dynamic and wonderful website as a
web developer, you only need to create time and do some research so as to find
easy ways to create the idea you have in your head without worrying about paid plug-in,
hosting, site address or any difficulties in creating a website. Drop your
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