Yes! You can allow others to submit posts to your blog.
You can invite them to be a guest or give them full admin access.
You can even transfer the blog to them.

Here’s how…

1. Click on Customize or Dashboard, now go Settings and go to the far right tab Permissions.

2. Just click the ADD AUTHORS button and add the email of the guest blogger

Once they have accepted you can click on the link that says Guest this will make them an administrator with control over your blog.

Switching yourself back to Guest or Remove will transfer the blog to the new user, handy if you have a couple of google accounts and need to transfer the Blog between accounts.

Go to Customize / Template / Page Elements

Add a new Page Element to your sidebar and select Labels / ADD TO BLOG

I renamed this from Labels to Articles by category, think of this page element like a Navigation Bar that serves to purposes.

1. It quickly sums up and shows visitors the types of information that can be found at your site.
2. It allows visitors to get to the information, relevant to them, easily and frustration free.

Choose your labels wisely once you get 10 articles under one label it will take some work to change the name of label in each post.

I want to add a Google Search Box into my blogger body right in the center where the latest blog post shows up, by default this is locked, so first we will unlock it…

1. Go to Customize / Template / Edit HTML
   BTW, do not tick Expand Widget Templates, that will really scare you off.
   
2. Scroll all the way down and back up about 30 lines to find
   div id=’main-wrapper’
   You may have maxwidgets=’1′ if so increase the number (I don’t have it on my template)
   showaddelement=’yes’ (this allows you to add an element via Template/Page Elements, edit page)
   locked=’false’ (This unlocks the listed elements so they can be shuffled around)
3. Hit save.

Good idea to back up your evolving templates separately, before any major changes.

I want to add a Banner into my header as a separate element.
by default this is locked, so first we will unlock it…

1. Go to Customize / Template / Edit HTML
   You should be get familiar with this now, if not try printing it out and using it as wallpaper in your toilet.
2. Scroll all the way down and back up about 30 lines to find div id=’header-wrapper’
   Make maxwidgets=’3′ (this always needs to be one more than you have so you can shuffle elements around)
   showaddelement=’yes’ (this allows you to add an element via Template/Page Elements, edit page)
   locked=’false’ (This unlocks the section)

NOTE: The original header element is the title of your Blogger, it’s what comes up when people find you in google search and also what people see if you get featured at the Blogger Dashboard, worth keeping!!!

Ok! Deep Breath and go…

Customize / Templates / Edit HTML

First thing you will see is ‘Backup / Restore Template‘, really good idea at this early stage.

The first site of code can be similar to a debt collector knocking at the door for some people.
I highly recommend that you just hide for 10 minutes peeking at it through the curtains.
The confronting aspects will eventually fade down your driveway and give you time to contemplate the meaning of <div id=”‘header-wrapper’”>

1. The first thing I want to do is expand the width of my Blogger to utilize more of the real estate:
   • Scroll through the HTML and replace the following values (Bold only)
     - header-wrapper width = 890px
     - outer-wrapper width = 890px
     - main-wrapper width = 500px
     - sidebar-wrapper width = 220px
   • Scroll down further…
     - footer width = 890px
   • Save and cross fingers
     
     
2. Yikes!!! Now I will need to fill all that empty space with another column.
   • Open and scroll through the code again
   • Find the #sidebar-wrapper {4 lines of code here}
     - Copy it and paste it straight after itself with a blank line in between
     - Add a capital L after wrapper. #sidebar-wrappperL
     - Change float variable to left (its was set to right)
     
   • Scroll right towards the bottom and find div id=’sidebar-wrapper’
     - Copy everything between the DIVs (should be 4 lines of code plus some widgets in the middle
     - Click before the group of code above it, div id=’main-wrapper’
     - Paste it before that with one blank line breathing space above and below
     - Add a capital L after wrapper. div id=’sidebar-wrapperL’
     - Add a capital L after id=’sidebar’. id=’sidebarL’
     - Delete the Widget lines in the middle, just the ones that start with b:widget id=
   • Scroll up and find .sidebar .widget, .main .widget
     - Now you will need to add the new ID here… .sidebar .sidebarL .widget, .main .widget
   • Lastly scroll up a bit more and make the sidebar-wrapperL width = 150px
     - Save and now you can go to Page Elements to add to your new left hand column

I have saved some screenshots and will upload them soon.

Stock.Xchng is a great website for FREE stock photos that you can ad to your blog or website!

It is free to join and worth noting three things.

1. Make sure you observe the conditions, you cant resell the image, etc and so on…

2. When you do a search it may also give a box of images from the Commercial flip side of the website… StockExpert, you will have to pay for these (Between $1 to $10 dollars each) and they are stamped with a watermark before you buy.

3. The images can be way to big for use on your website.
   I would suggest using an excellent program like Snaggit, you’ll just keep finding great uses for it. We will post a demonstration here in the next few weeks.
   Otherwise use the ‘Print Screen’ button on your keyboard, then paste and crop it in your photo editing software.

Before I remove the Top Navigation Bar from your Blogger/Blogspot template, I am going to move some elements to a new sidebar page element.

So…

1. Go to Customize / Template / Page Elements
2. Add a Page Element (on your side column)
3. If you are signed in, go to your bloggers Top Nav Bar and select/copy…
   New Post | Customize | Sign out
   
4. Paste these into your new page element and the live hyperlinks should come with them
5. Now open your blog in another browser/window and Sign Out
   select/copy Sign In and paste these into your new page element
6. Arrange and format them how you wish and hit SAVE

If you want you could grab Dashboard | Help from the top of the customize page.

For a Search Box customize it from www.google.com/coop/cse

So you want to remove your top navigation bar from Blogger.
Especially useful if you are disguising your blogger/Blogspot blog with your domain name.
However its important to point out that you will be losing many handy links - NewPost, Customize, SignOut, Dashboard, Help, Search
You might want try this first Keeping some Top Nav Bar links

Ok! ready?

1. Click customize, up on your Top Nav Bar
   Note:
   
2. Click the Template tab and then the Edit HTML tab
   You will see some code that looks a bit like this…
3. Near the top of the HTML locate <head> click immediately after it and hit enter
   Copy in the following code
   <!–Remove NavBar –><style type=’text/css’>#b-navbar {height: 0px; visibility: hidden; display: none;}</style>
   <style type=’text/css’>#navbar-iframe {height: 0px; visibility: hidden; display: none;}</style><!–End Remove NavBar –>
   

Step by Step guide with Screenshots coming soon…