Recommended Settings: Formatting

The screenshot on the right shows settings that I recommend for Blogger blog formatting. If you click on the graphic, it will open into a window where you can read the recommended settings easily. You can open and check these settings through your Dashboard (Manage: Settings), on the Settings and Formatting tabs.

• Showing no more than 14 days will help your blogs load faster, for both you and visitors, especially if you have embedded lots of media in your posts.
  
• A full date header is easy to spot, and easy to read.
  
• Months spelled out in the archive index also are easy to read.
• A twenty-four hour timestamp leaves little doubt about the times of day that you usually post on your blogs.
• Along with timestamps (and frequency of posting patterns evident from archives and recent posts on your blogs), a local time zone (JST: GMT+09:00) indicates to blog visitors when you might return and respond to comments that they leave on your blogs.
• Finally, setting your blog language to English will enable visitors unfamiliar with your vernacular (Japanese) to read and respond easily to your posts.

For more recommendations with regard to blogger blog settings, please click on the "settings" label in the sidebar. If you have questions about your blog settings, please ask either in class, or in comments on this post.

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