Chapter 1

Setting Up Your Tumblr Blog

In This Chapter

arrow Creating your account

arrow Selecting your account settings

arrow Setting your preferences

arrow Selecting a theme

arrow Choosing a title and description

arrow Customizing the appearance

arrow Creating pages

arrow Setting advanced blog options

Tumblr is the fastest-growing free blogging platform on the Internet, and with good reason. It’s intuitive and easy to use; one of the first things you’ll notice about Tumblr is how quickly you can create an account and start blogging.

In this chapter, you find out how to create a Tumblr account, set your account preferences, and edit them, if needed. You also discover how to select and apply one of several free themes to your Tumblr ...

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