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create your own free blog in jiffy with vox.com

Posted on 21. Jan, 2010 by Editor in Web, Web

create your own free blog in jiffy with vox.com

Trends for creating blogs are growing rapidly. Mostly user prefers Word press and other Content Management System (CMS) for their blog hosting. Installing any CMS in a server needs a minimum knowledge on hosting, server and scripting. Some people who doesn’t want to invest any buck for blog or doesn’t know anything about hosting, vox.com is for them. This week we have reviewed vox.com. You can create blog easily, free of cost and with no coding experience with this site. Your blog will be created as the sub-domain of vox.com (e.g. your-blog-name.vox.com). So let’s go through how to create a blog with vox.com in jiffy!

Step 1: Setup Your Blog

1. Open up your browser. Go to http://vox.com .
2. Click on ‘Join Vox’ on top and you will be redirected to the registration page.

Tip: You can also click on ‘Take a Tour’ for a small tutorial on using the site and at the same time you will be aware of all the features of the site.

Joining Vox

1. Fill up your original details and a valid email address.
2. Enter the text ‘captcha’ and click ‘Sign Up’.

Info: It is free to create your account. Unfortunately there have no option to host your vox blog with top level domain.

Registering at vox

1. You will get a validation mail containing a confirmation link.
2. Either go through the link or copy the confirmation number and paste in vox account verification page and click ‘Confirm Account’.
3. Fill your profile details (optional) if you like.

Confirm account in vox

Step 2: Creating Your Post

1. click on the ‘create’ on the top from the control panel.

Start Blogging

1. You will get a text editor on the screen.
2. Give a relevant title that would attract your post viewer.
3. Enter some relevant keyword. Your blog will appear in the search result when anybody searches those keywords.

Editing a Blog

1. Click on ‘Photos’ if you like to insert image in your post.
2. This site supports photo uploading from your computer, Flickr, iStockphoto, photobucket and your Vox library.
3. Click on ‘Choose’ and target your image path.
4. Add some relevant keyword for your photo.
5. You can change the permission of viewing your photo from bottom line.
6. Click on ‘ok’ if you’re done.

Uploading photo in vox

1. You can change the size and position of your image which you have uploaded.

Resizing an image

1. You can add music in the same way you have insert the image.
2. Vox support MP3, MP4, M4A, AMR, Ogg, Vorbis and WAV music format.
3. You can upload your music from your computer, Vox library, Amazon.

Uploading Media

1. Click on ‘save’ when you think your page is done.
2. Once you have saved your post, you can send notification about it to your friends or bookmark it to social bookmarking sites.

Sharing your blog

Step 3: Styling Your Blog with Themes

1. Click on ‘you’ from the top menu and select design from the sub menu.
2. Select your layout at first.
3. Point your mouse over the theme and click ‘apply to blog’.
4. You can change the theme category from the sidebar to fit your blog.

Here is what you get at last

Final Image

Hope you have enjoyed this tutorial. So create your first Vox blog as soon as possible.

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