How To: Create a Tumblr Blog

These Days, hundreds of websites are available to create free blog. WordPress and blogger are the most popular platform for blogging but we are not going to discuss about them. Another website named “Tumblr” is very popular free blog service online. This service is completely free and customization of blog is very easy. Blogger is also good blogging platform but Tumblr have better capabilities than blogger. So in this article, I am going to give all information about tumblr blog.

How to create Tumblr Blog

First you have to create an account to start a blog. To create blog, visit tumblr.com and sign up for an account. Sign up process is very easy and fast. Simply, you need to give email address, password and tumblog name. You can try blog name generator to get Tumblr blog name idea. Try to choose name which is easy, short and brandable. If any of your desire tumblr names is available, click on the “start publishing button”.

After sign up, you will see the dashboard screen. Before proceed further, don’t forget to verify your email address.

First clicks on the avatar icon and upload a catchy image. You can change your avatar any time.

Now you have to choose a theme for your blog. There are many tumblr themes are available so select any of them. Click on the “use” and “save” buttons to make the theme live on your blog. Now fill up the title and description field for your tumblog. Also you can add pages for your blog easily.

You have to click on the “close” button to exit on the “dashboard” page. Now follow at least five people on the tumblr.

• Text: Here add title and text for your post. Also, you can add photo and links in your post.
• Photo: You can upload image from computer or take snapshot via webcam. Otherwise you can use Url of picture.
• Quote: Add a quote for your post.
• Link: Add a title and URL for the link.
• Chat: Add any discussion for chat post.
• Audio: You can upload one audio in a day.
• Video: You can Embed video from website like YouTube or Vimeo.

How to delete tumblr blog

To delete tumblr account, click on the “preferences” from the top right of dashboard. Also you can change password and email address for your tumblr account.

In tumblr blog setting, you can do following things:

• You can change your tumblog URL.
• You can send Tumblr posts to Twitter and Facebook.
• You can add your custom domain name.
• You can block tumbler blog from search engine.

So these are the basic things about tumblr blog. Hope you enjoyed the post.