Played With Blogger Tools...Learned Some Things

It's not as puzzling as you think.

The first thing you need to do is remove any fears you may have about doing something wrong when you try testing the blogger website tools.  Once you select a blog builder site to use, start experimenting with the tools.  Be patient, read and look at what changes take place each time you click a tool option.  You can look at the changes you made by clicking the 'preview' tab found somewhere on your tool builder pages.  Just play with the tools to experiment with colors, transparencies, section arrangements, fonts and other edits.  Take some time to get 'a feel' for what is going on.  Then once you get a feel for the tools, begin arranging the 'look' of your blog.  Be very open to use all of the links suggested by your blog builder site.  Remember, they want you to succeed.

Be open to reading other sites that have suggestions on how to build a blog.  Oodles of information out there to help you.  Be open to spending some time getting to know what is going on as you build your blog site.  This is not a microwave process that in just two easy clicks and you are done.  This will take some time.  Maybe you can plan some kind of routine time slots to dedicated as you learn and build your blog.  Try all of the tools, even the ones that make no sense to you or the ones that are of little interest to you right now.  You need to know the power of all the options given to you to use.  Good luck.  I know more today than when I first started.  Kind of cool.