Blog Tutorial: Advanced: Organizing Your Blog

For those who have a tendency to want to keep things neat and tidy, this tutorial's going to be especially helpful for you.

There are two things that you can categorize here: your blog entries and your blogroll.

If you have specific themes running on your blog, organizing them would be a good idea, since readers can just click on the category they are most interested to read. To make these, follow the following:

1. From your Blog Dashboard, click "Manage" (also on the gray bar at the top of the page).

2. A blue bar right below that one should appear. Click on "Categories."

3. The page you should be seeing contain the two default items: Blogroll and Uncategorized. To make a new category, click "Add New"or scroll down to the bottom half of the page.

4. Type in the Category Title that you want. You can also add a description there, although this is optional. Examples of these would be "fanfiction," "poetry," "My story."

5. Sub-categories can also be made. Type in the title you want to use, and under the Category Parent, look for the option you want the new classification to fall under. An example of this would be creating a "Vacation" sub-category under "My Story."

Congratulations! You've made categories. To make use of these, whenever you make a post, be sure to tick which box your entry will fall under. Otherwise, the default category would be "Uncategorized."
What is a blogroll? This is the list of links appearing on the right side of your blog as it is displayed in public. You can add your favorite websites or blogs here so that these can be accessed with just a single click from your Sanrio Town blog instead of typing the entire URL on your browser.

When you get your own online journal here in Sanrio Town, the following links are the ones that are automatically on your blogroll: Sanrio Digital, Sanrio Town, and the Sanrio Town Blog. Add your favorite URLs by clicking "Add Link," found on the blue bar. You can type whatever name you want assigned to the link, and then paste the actual URL on the address. Again, you could add a description to this, although it's optional. You can also classify what your relationship is with that person who owns the URL. Advanced options are also available, but these will be discussed in another tutorial entry.

To further classify the Blogroll links, you can combine its options with the Categories. Go to the Categories and make new ones according to the order you want to set for your links. Go then to Blogroll and Add a link. Like posts, you will see the Categories box on the upper right side of the page. Check which tab the link should fall under to classify it.

That's about it for today's post. Check out next week's entry, same day, to read more on how to maximize the use of your blog.