How to Leave a Comment

I know there may be people who come to this site who haven't ever commented on a blog before so I am going to try to give you a quick tutorial.  I do everything on blogger by trial and error so this may not be the best way to do it, but it will work.

So,
You have just read a post and have something you are dying to say about it.  The first thing you do is go to the bottom of what you just read and click on the comment button. (See where it says 0 comments)

When you click on this button a new window will pop up that looks like this.

First go to the Comment as: line under the space where the comment is written.  If you have a gmail account or a blogspot blog of your own, you can use your user name and password to leave your comment. If you don't know if you do, just keep reading.

If you don't have a google account, don't worry.  Click on the down arrow and this list of choices will appear.  You want to choose the one that says Name/URL.  Just click on it.

Then another window will pop up.  You put in the name that you want to show up with your comment.  I entered Dianne.  It would be good if you used your real name so everyone knows who made the comment, but you can choose to make up a name if you want to.  URL (on the second line) is the name of your website.  You probably don't have a website so you can just leave this line blank. If you have a website you probably don't need to read this tutorial, but go ahead and put it in the space. Then push the continue button.

Now you should be back to the box where you can type your comment. (Do you see your name in the comment as: box?  If you want to change it click on the Edit button.)  Start typing all the wonderful thoughts you have going through your head.

After you are done writing your comment it is probably a good idea to push the Preview button to see how your comment looks.  This is a good time to look for misspelled words or the wrong word, for example if you wrote our instead of out you could go back and fix it before you publish your comment.

When everything looks the way you want it to push Publish and your published comment should appear in the area above the "Enter your comment" space.  Once you publish your comment you can not change it, but you can delete it if you change your mind about what you said.

Try it out!  It's easy. It's fun.  And I'm tired of talking to myself.