Thumblogger, your first steps

First register

First create a free account a thumblogger, which is a free stable blogging service which is in business for over 1,5 years now. You can register at the following url:
http://www.thumblogger.com/thumblog/register.php
Just fill in your name and a email address and you will receive your password by email within minutes.

Let's login

At this time you should have received a email with your password, you should also see a login page in your browser. Enter your email address and the password and press the Login button.

Change password

Once you are logged in you might want to click the 'change your password' link to change your password into something a bit easier to remember then the default password. You need to relogin after you changed your password.

Create a blog

Press the 'Add new blog' button to create a new blog. A popup should appear, type in a subdomain, a name for your blog and choose a category for your blog and click the button. A new page appears which lets you choose a template, which defines the way your blog looks. Let's pick the 'Classic' template and click the button again. Now a new page appears, on this page you can choose which theme you want, a theme defines which colors your blog uses, let's pick the 'Standard' one. Click the 'Choose' button again. You should get a message that your blog has been created.

Let's add a new log entry

If everything went oke you should now see your blog listed. Click on the name of your blog. A new page appears which lists all your posted log entries. It's likely that it is totally empty. Let's click the 'Add new log entry' button to add a new log entry. Wait a while cause the log entry editor take a while to load (it will be a lot fast next time though). Let's add a log entry of post type 'Gallery', choose 'Gallery' in the yellow box on the top right. A new form should appear with extra fields. Enter the following values in the different fields:
URL to site/gallery: http://www.littlethumbs.com/samples/dina/nn/beautiful-girls/?coupon=972619&e=1&l=1
URL to JPG image: http://www.littlethumbs.com/samples/dina/nn/beautiful-girls/10.jpg
^^ this JPG will be downloaded by thumblogger and will be thumbnailed and will be included in the log entry, you don't have to do anything. Subject: This time: her toes
Message: (replace 'TypeHere' with the text below)
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Wow even this girls feet are fuckin hot and cute too dina shows off her toes up close and personal.

I'm not a foot fetish, but i must admit this nubile has good looking feet. Look at the last picture of the gallery and you will know what i mean. Not those fat dirty feet, but lovely tiny feets with good shaped toes.
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Now press the 'Add' button. Your log entry has been posted! Click 'Preview' to see your blog.

My blog is boring!

Your blog doesn't look too spectacular at this moment. Let's add some things. Go to 'Options' section and then the 'Info' tab. Now type a couple lines of text that describes your blog, make it a good description search engines love text especially good text which is original but not to spammy text. Press the Change button to save the changes. Click 'Preview' to see how your blog looks.

The Blog Header

The top part of your blog is a bit boring. Most blogs have a nice image header or at least their blog name at the top of their blogs. So let's do that. Go to 'Looks' section and click the 'Page header' link. Type the name of your blog in the 'Header text' field and some kind of quote/short description in the 'Quote text' field. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click the Change button. Click the 'Html wizards' tab and click the 'Html begin' link, type the title of your blog in to 'Page title' field and press the button.

Add links!

Let's add some links to your blog. Go to the 'Blog' section and click the 'Links' tab. Click the Add button and enter the following information:
Name: Adult Blog Directory
URL: http://www.adultblogdirectory.com
Finally press the Add button. Now preview your blog, it looks a lot better now doesn't it?

The banners

Banners are important, and a blog without a banner seems a bit boring. So go to the 'Options' section and click the 'Boxes' tab. Click the little edit picture at the end of a row. Type in the Name field 'My favorite site' and enable the settings 'Enabled' and 'Surrounded by a box' now type in the banner code in the big field labelled Box. If you don't have a banner code yet use 'Here comes my cool looking banner which will gives me my own boat and a extra car'. Press the Change button.
Now click the 'Box move' tab and select the 'My favorite site' item in the 'Available boxes' list (the one with grey background) and click the arrow that points to the right and sits between the 'Available boxes' list and the 'Right' list. The 'My favorite site' item should now move to the 'Right' list. Select the 'My favorite site' item in the 'Right' list and press the Up button 2 times, the 'My favorite site' item should now be at the top of the 'Right' list. Press the Save button and preview your blog. If everything went right your 'My favorite site' box should now be at the top right of your blog!

Where can i host my banners and my image header?

Go to the 'Looks' section and read the text under 'Upload design image', you will first have to register at ImageTurtle (which is thumbloggers image hosting service). When you have done that you can upload you banners and/or image header or other small images as 'Upload hotlinkable image'. If you want to use a BIG image in one of your log entries you might want to click the 'Images from your computer to ImageTurtle' link. Then just read the ImageTurtle instructions and you are ready to go.

My image header?

Go to the 'Looks' section and click 'Page header' link, enable the 'Enable image header' setting and fill in the fields under 'Image header enabled' and press the Change button. Use a image header that has a width of 750 pixels for the Classic template.

Another template?

Go to the 'Looks' section and click the 'Choose template' tab now select a template and press the Choose button, next you can select a Theme and press the Choose button again. Ready?

Can i change the HTML of the template?

Yes, you can. Go to the 'Looks' section and click the 'Html templates' tab now click the 'All templates' link and press the 'Convert to HTML' to convert the template to easy to read HTML.

I'm happy with my blog, what now?

Add at least one log entry once a week, this will keep the Search engines, your surfers and the directory owner happy. And every log entry is a chance to get some income. If you don't like logging in every week or twice a week consider scheduling your log entries, just set the post date of a log entry to a day in the future, when that days arrives your log entry will be automatically made visible on your blog. You can change the post date by going to the 'Add log entry' form and click on the 'Show options' link near the bottom of the page.

I made a bloggy, where are those visitors?

Please add at least 3 log entries to your blog and then use the Blog Submitter to submit your blog to 12 directories:
http://www.adultblogresource.com/submitter/

What's next?

I've only covered the bare basics in this tutorial. There is much and i mean MUCH more that thumblogger offers. I would advise you to try every section and every single tab. Just try everything, you can't do much harm. And when you don't understand something post a question on the support forum.