Thursday, April 23, 2009

Blog Book: Instructions

I have had a few people ask me for a little help. Here is what I did.

* Go to http://www.blurb.com/
*Download the Blurb Book Smart 1.9 program
*Open program and choose "Start a new book"
*Pick a title
*Choose book size (They reccomend Standard Portrait for blogs) That is what I did.
*Hit continue
*Choose starting Point- under starter layouts choose "Blog to book"
*Hit continue
*Choose your blog source- Blogger
*It asks you to sign into your blog
*If you get an error when trying to sing in, follow these instructions:
1) Please log into Blogger.com. If your dashboard shows a "!" alert that says "You have not verified your email address. Resend verification email," please click that link, check your email, and follow the verification instructions.
2) Be sure you're logging in using your full email address (not just a username).
3) Under Settings>Site Feed (in your Blogger settings), please make sure "Allow Blog Feeds" is set to "Full."
4) On that same Site Feed settings page, please makes sure the "Post Feed Redirect URL" is blank. If you redirect your feeds to Feedburner, for instance, temporarily remove that URL (paste it somewhere so you don't lose it) and save your settings. Your blog should now slurp into BookSmart once you try again. Then, you can restore your Post Feed Redirect URL setting in Blogger and press Save Settings. If it still won't work, there may be a firewall/antivirus software problem (even if you’re on a Mac, you may be behind a router-or even an OS-firewall). Please try temporarily disabling your firewall and/or security software/settings before trying to slurp again.
*If you sign in successfully it will ask you to Select Blog- choose and continue
*Then it should say downloading entries- you can select all or pick and choose the posts you want in the book.
*Hit continue
*Populate- Select "Yes , autopopulate and order by oldest to newest"
*Hit continue
*Choose a theme- I did vivid (this can always be changed later)
*Hit continue
*It should start slurping in the posts and bring you to the book to view and start making changes.
Good Luck!!

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