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30 May 2019: The address for your blog Background information. This blog doesn't use a custom domain name. At the time of writing, its …

30 May 2019: Use your own domain name Requires a bit of expertise, or using the domain registrar’s Helpdesk. Recommended though. …

30 May 2019: Change the title of your site Anyone can do this. Recommended. Micro.Blog will automatically set the Title of your site to your …

30 May 2019: Choose a theme Anyone can do this. The Theme determines the look of your blog, and to some extent how it works. As …

30 May 2019: Add a footer Anyone can do this at a basic level. Making it look great, or even good, could require some …

31 May 2019: Add a favicon You can do this. Follow the detailed steps carefully. A favicon is the small image associated with a …

01 Jun 2019: Change your Profile Photo Anyone can do this. By default Micro.blog uses the Gravatar service for your profile photo. You can …

01 Jun 2019: The skills you need to use different colours, and make other changes Background information. Anyone can choose a theme, change the title of their site or their profile …

01 Jun 2019: Starting coding with the right tool - a text editor Anyone can do this. If you can write an email or text to a friend or a post on Facebook then you can …

01 Jun 2019: Start coding HTML, plus: what is HTML? Anyone can do this. In the previous tutorial you created a plain text file called first.html and …

02 Jun 2019: Let's meet CSS Anyone can do this. When we wrote first.html we used HTML tags to markup the text so as to explain …

02 Jun 2019: Let's investigate a web page Must read! Background information. When we watch a movie we see a story unfold and with any luck …

02 Jun 2019: It's classified: HTML for all! Anyone can do this. There's one thing that all web browsers have in common: they're useless at …

02 Jun 2019: Be strong: give it some emphasis Anyone can do this. One of the very common things people want to do is to emphasise a few words. How …

02 Jun 2019: When you just want some bold or italics, not emphasis Anyone can do this. One of my all-time favourite authors is Kristine Kathryn Rusch, especially her …

02 Jun 2019: Style your custom footer You can do this. Back in Add a footer you added a footer to your blog, but maybe you removed it …

03 Jun 2019: A few words on HTML syntax Anyone can do this. So far in these tutorials I've given examples to copy and paste but haven't …

03 Jun 2019: A few words on CSS syntax Anyone can do this. So far in these tutorials I've given examples to copy and paste but haven't …

03 Jun 2019: Some handy HTML tags: lists, quotes and links Anyone can do this. Headings are important, by varying degrees There are actually 6 levels of …

04 Jun 2019: What you need to know about CSS to customise your Micro.Blog blog You can do this. When you choose a Theme it will have its own stylesheet (perhaps several) which …

04 Jun 2019: HTML and CSS comments are extremely useful Background information. What the heck was I thinking? What was that about? Why did I do that? These …

04 Jun 2019: Links and how to style them Anyone can do this. Tim Berners-Lee wrote the first proposal for the World Wide Web in March 1989. …

05 Jun 2019: How to style an image in a post You can do this. Suppose you pull out your iPhone, take some photos and decide to send one picture …

05 Jun 2019: Hide things with CSS Anyone can do this. Sometimes things come with the Theme you choose, but you don't want them. One …

06 Jun 2019: Use Alt Text (image Description) because it's the right thing to do Everyone should do this. When you add an image to a blog post — a photo, for example — …

07 Jun 2019: How Micro.Blog works Background information. When the Web started, around 1989, the only way to make web pages was to use …

11 Jun 2019: Head, header, heading Background information. To work with Micro.Blog themes it's important to understand how they're put …

13 Jun 2019: Link: Changing the default colors of the Micro.blog Marfa theme Roel Willems: Micro Guide: Changing the default colors of the Micro.blog Marfa theme. Micro Guide: …

13 Jun 2019: Link: Make a custom home page Micro.blog Help has instructions for making a Custom home page: Custom home page Setting static text …

13 Jun 2019: Link: Set up a Custom Domain Micro.blog Help has instructions for setting up Custom domains: Custom domains Point your custom …

13 Jun 2019: Link: Custom CSS Micro.blog Help has instructions for working with Custom CSS: Custom CSS Customizing your hosted …

13 Jun 2019: Link: Custom themes Micro.blog Help has instructions for working with Custom themes: Custom themes Creating or copying …

13 Jun 2019: Link: Truncated posts on your microblog Micro.blog Help has instructions for working with Truncated posts on your microblog: Truncated posts …

13 Jun 2019: Link: Parameters in themes Micro.blog Help has instructions for working with Parameters in themes: Parameters in themes Custom …

13 Jun 2019: Change the date format Anyone can do this. At the time of writing this blog uses the Default Theme. I have already …

13 Jun 2019: Change how many blog posts display on the Home Page Anyone can do this. Themes might differ in how many posts they display on the Home Page or in the …

14 Jun 2019: Display oldest items first in the Archive Anyone can do this. On a blog the Home Page will usually show the latest post at the top of the page …

15 Jun 2019: How to force a refresh Anyone can do this. Most of these tutorials tell you to refresh a web page to see and check any …

15 Jun 2019: Link: Adding pagination to the Hyde theme Adding pagination to the Hyde theme (Micro.blog) Posted on: 2019-04-09 I finally sat down and took a …

16 Jun 2019: Link: How to Hide Categories on Micro.blog Arabica Theme Rocket Panda explains How to Hide Categories on Micro.blog Arabica Theme. After some digging and …

16 Jun 2019: How to add or remove a copyright or year in the footer You can do this. My Love Waikawa Beach blog uses the Arabica theme which includes a copyright line …

17 Jun 2019: Add a search to your blog You can do this. I noticed my personal blog, which uses the Marfa theme, has a search box at the …

19 Jun 2019: Link: Micro.blog Map David Hall: Micro.blog Map. I have adapted my method of linking articles to and from a map here …

27 Jun 2019: Link: Referencing photos in Hugo themes Manton Reece: Referencing photos in Hugo themes, June 26, 2019. This post provides the code you need …

28 Jun 2019: Link to more blog pages with pagination You can do this. You need to already know: how to reach your Theme files and the Custom CSS file. …

30 Jun 2019: Add number of available pages to the pagination You can do this. You need to already know: how to reach your Theme files. My Love Waikawa Beach …

05 Jul 2019: Add a header image to your blog You can do this. You need to already know: how to reach your Theme files and the Custom CSS file. …

08 Jul 2019: Link: more structure to URLs Manton wrote on July 6, 2019: Rolled out a few tweaks to custom pages on Micro.blog-hosted blogs …

10 Jul 2019: Link: Get Your Site Ready For Dark Mode I’ve been able to update my site to support dark mode …