Making Blogger look nice

There are many tools out there to help you make your blog look pretty. One of them is the "Design" tab in the compose window, which lets you choose many different looks for your blog. You can customise them with your own images. Try to go for a media theme if you can - it will convince the examiner that you are really dedicated and devoted to your subject!

Within the posts themselves, try and avoid ugly links like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsX4FPFBgFk

It makes your reader work too hard - they have to leave your site to watch the video you wanted to see. Far better to embed the video in your blog, and YouTube makes it easy. Clicking the "Share" button on any YouTube page, then selecting "Embed", displays a customisable html code. All you need to do is copy and paste it into the "Edit HTML" tab of your blogger window and...

Hey presto!

You can also use a site like Slideshare to upload PowerPoint presentations like so:

Music magazine

View more presentations from theirdarkaddress.

There is also a useful site called Issuu which allows you to upload .pdf or Word documents (and PowerPoint, it seems) and make them display beautifully in your blog like this:

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