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1. Tumblr Intro: Welcome to the course. My name is David. I'm going to walk you through
step one to step done, and how to create a
website with tumblr.com. Tumblr has been around since 2007 and it was bought
out by automatic, the company behind a WordPress, I would describe it
Tumblr as sort of like a microblogging
platform across between a Google's blogger platform
in at twitter.com. So in this course, I'm going to walk you
through all the steps that you need to
know in order to create a website and
blog with tumblr.com, I'm going to show you how
to set a custom domain name for your timber websites. So it's something like your website.com instead of your
website dot tumblr.com, I'm going to show you how
to design your websites with all the different
themes that they provide. How to blog and
create content in your various kinds of
creation options using this platform and all the
little details that you need to be aware of on the
backend with this platform. So if you've been looking to
get started with tumblr.com, this course is for you, cover all the little steps that you need to know to create your very own custom website and blog using this platform. When you're ready
to get started, click the next video and
I'll see you on the inside.
2. Getting started with Tumblr: Welcome to my laptop,
but let's begin. So this is tumblr.com
in right here. Tumblr, so easy to use, It's hard to explain. Notes now it's a hybrid
between Twitter and Blogger. So anyways, let's go
ahead and sign up. So that's simple enough. Click on the blue button
that says sign up. Then you're going to have to
enter your email password and then your blog name, okay, so once you fill
that information out, it's going to ask
you how old you are. So just go ahead and put in your age or whatever
you wanna do. So I'm going to put my age in. Then click on Next again. Then it gives you
an option to just select what you're
interested in. Because again, it's a
social media network. So this is going
to just populate your feed with different aspects
of things that you want. So I'm gonna go ahead and click
on and we'll say science, and we'll say history. We come down here,
illustrations, culture, and we'll see business. Okay. Now let's go ahead
and click on Next. And now it's building
our dashboard. And that's it. You literally created
a Tumblr account. Now the thing that
you need to do is confirm your email address. So within your email you
should have a confirmation. So let me go ahead and click
on re-send. Fantastic. So verify your email address. Let me go ahead and
do that. This is me. Alright, so now
you're gonna have to just do a quick little Capture. Let's go ahead and say
I'm not a robot. Okay? And so now you can
download somewhere to your mobile device
if you're on iOS or Android, and that's it. So let's go ahead and click
on Skip to your dashboard.
3. Navigating the Tumblr dashboard: Welcome to tumblr.com. So this is your dashboard, and your dashboard has a
feed of front-and-center, which is based on the
topics you choose to follow during the
onboarding process, and will also be populated by any specific blogs you
choose to follow as well. And it's really that simple. So to navigate to your
specific account, just click on the icon
right up over here, then your Tumblr
website will appear. Okay, so my temper website
is finance.com or.com. So like finance, video finance, that's when we're
going to be doing with this Tambora plug. Now I definitely
recommend that you call your Tumblr blog the same as the custom domain name
that you register. We'll get to that later again, not a huge deal, but just
something to be aware of. Now right over here, very
simply of texts, photo, quote, link, chat,
audio and video. So these are different
items that you can add it to your Tumblr blog with ease. Very easy to use. Just click on, for example, photo, then you can
upload a photo. You can add a photo from
around the web. Very simple. Now, up top there
is your main menu, so you have your home
link over here, okay? And then right over here
you have your inbox, your inboxes from messages from within the tumblr platform. And then you have this pencil
icon and the pencil icon has the same layout,
is this right there? So it's kinda redundant. Anyways them pour an aspect is to navigate to your settings. So go ahead and
click on the icon. Then we want to
click on this little gear icon over there. Now this is going to direct
us to our Settings page. Okay, So this is the settings
within your Tumblr account so you can edit and adjust everything from this interface. So you can change your
username right there. You can change the website theme or whether or not
you want to show you a way eggs
which are following replies asked submissions. So with submissions,
you can actually have other Tumblr users submit post to post on your actual
Tumblr blog if you want. Next, right down here we
have affiliate links. So what this is is a changes unaffiliated links to into
Tumblr affiliate links. So that means a foot links
for Tumblr now for you. So that means like if
there's some type, something that you're
winking sue where tumblr has some type of affiliate
relationship with the automatically linked
to this product or service as an affiliate
that benefits Tumblr and not use so totally up to you whether or
not you want to enable that. Now again, if you use
your own affiliate link, it's not going to override it. So again, totally up to you, this is a way that
Tumblr kinda promotes themselves though as a wait
for them to make money. Right here you have the quo or Q, whatever you
want to call it. So right here you
can just set post to be posted every day, every other day to kinda keep
your Tumblr blog active. Then we have the language
time zone visibility block, blocks of who you blocked, and then you can export your website, okay,
and that's it. So over here we have
accounts, dashboard, Notification apps, privacy labs. And so if we jump over
to the lab section, so you can enable timber labs, and so this will just
enable things on your Tumblr blog that
are still experimental, that new features that
tumblers rolling out, but that's not
ready to go across the website yet,
that sort of thing. Then right down there you have your different blogs so you can go ahead and create a new
blog within one account. So you can have one account and then multiple blogs if you want. And that's really it.
That's all you really need to know to get
started with Tumblr.
4. How to set a cusotm domain for your website: Let's set a custom domain
name for our Tumblr blog. Now in order to do that, we actually first
need to get a.com. So for that, I recommend
going to name cheap, which is a domain
name registered low prices in a free
who is protection? So come right here and then
type in domain name that you want to register and
then click on search. Okay, so then name
sheep is going to come back until you whether or not your domain name is available. Now if it says not available, that means you have to
click on this and then type in a different
combination of words. When you find something that
you can actually register, go ahead and click
on Add to cart. Then let's view item, and let's go to checkouts. All right, so on
the checkout page, you can register
a domain name for up to 10 years in advance. You can turn Auto
renew on if you want. So if it's on, that means
you're a credit card or whatever payment gateway
you choose to use will be automatically charged
every single year and you get free
domain name privacy. So when you register
a domain name, you have to provide accurate
contact information as part of I can't rules with domain
privacy does just keeps all that information private
and with name sheep, that's why like
Nim cheap, you get it completely for free. Anyways, when you're ready, go ahead and click on Confirm Order and
you're good to go. Okay, so once we have our domain and the
only thing we need to do next is set in a record
in maybe a CNAME record. So if your domain is
going to be my blog.com, then all you need to do is
add in an a record and then this is the a record
right here, 666444. It's going to be
something like www. My blog.com or blog that
my blog.com, whatever. You're also going
to need to create a CNAME record to domains
that Tom work.com. Now don't get too confused. A record CNAME record. What are we talking about? Now, the next step
you need to do is navigate over to your
domain name register. So I'm using Name
Cheap in this example. So click on Manage for the
domain name you want to edit, then click on Advanced DNS. Then it right down
here is where you can add in different records. So if you see any
records already in here, go ahead and delete them. You can delete records
just by clicking on the trash icon and then
just add in a new record. So for an a record, again, we click here
to add a new record. Then you will click
on a record and the host symbol
is the at symbol. And then again the
value is 666444. Literally just take this number, highlight it, copy and
paste it in right there. Now if you want to
set it so it's www, my blog.com, then
you're going to have to also add in a CNAME record. So again, you come down
here to add a new record. Then you navigate down here to where it says CNAME record. Now the host is the www. Okay, it's not an at
symbol, It's www. What's the target? Well, it's telling
you this artery here, domains that tambor.com. That's it. Okay, so all
I have to do is click on the little checkmark
to save and that's it. Okay, so right now all I have is an a record setup right
here and I'm good to go. So the last step you
need to do is navigate back to your settings
for your Tumblr blog, okay, now right here
where it says username, you want to click on
the little pencil icon. And we want to click on
Use a custom domain. Okay? Now what domains
do we want to use? You want to use the
meaning we just set up. So let me type this in.com
and then that's it. Let's go ahead and
test the domain name. And there we go. It
should say it's good. Then go ahead and click on Save. And that's it. So that's how you set
a custom domain name for your Tumblr website.
5. Designing your Tumblr website: Let's begin designing
our Tumblr website. So saying what number
is quick, easy, and fun, and it works
primarily by way of themes. So first off, let's click
on our avatar and then you want to make sure to click
on the little gear icon. And that's going to take you
back to the settings page. So over here we can
edit the appearance and change this image
and the avatar, but that's not really
what we wanna do. We want to navigate down here to where it says website theme. Just go ahead and
click on Edit theme. Then the Tumblr Customizer
is going to load. Then you just change the appearance of your website
by changing the theme. Then we change the theme. The settings over here will
change ever so slightly, just depending on a theme. So for example, like this, which show avatar, we can click off that and that hides
the avatar there. Now everything uses an avatar. So really just depends. So anyways, let's go ahead
and click on browse themes. And this is going to
show us all the themes that we can use within Tumblr. They have premium themes
and they have paid themes. If you click on this
drop-down arrow right there, it's organized into
helpful categories. So we have a single
column, free themes, good for texts,
minimal, et cetera. So I'm gonna go ahead and
click on free themes. Okay, so let's go
ahead and select a free theme to use
for our websites. I'll write this one. Looks good. So I'm gonna go ahead
and click on D observer. And yeah, I like this nice and minimalistic looking
website works for me. So when you're ready, just
go ahead and click on Use and then you can
change the appearance. So for example, says untitled. Obviously we want to
call this the name of our website now untitled
than a description. So let's just say video, finance, blog, for example. Then we have the avatar
background colors. So for example, you can
just again self-selecting. So if you want to
make it a weird color, you can go
ahead and do that. I'm going to leave
this white so people actually enjoy being
on the website. Okay, so right down here, you have your Open Graph option. So this changes how your website looks when people
share it on social media. You definitely want to
fill something out. So what I would
recommend is going with website, the name
of your website, a page separator, and a keyword description of
what the websites about, then a quick little one-sentence description of your website. So someone shares this on
Facebook, for example, that you don't want
it to come up saying like untitled or
something like that. So go ahead and just put
in something right there. Now right down here, you have different options for
this specific theme. So again, you have the logo, so you can update a logo, body texts, body font, show navigation, for example, we toggle that off. For example, the, the
navigation disappears. Right here we have show
archive navigation. Turn that off with this. So again, that's why I said it depends on
the theme because somethings you can't turn off archive navigation for example. So again, just depends
on theme for your like, if you're on a specific timber theme that's different
from this one, you're like, hey, I
don't have that option. Well, it depends on the
theme that you're using. Okay? And so really just
navigate through this and toggle things on and
off as you like. It's really that simple. So right down there we
have Google Analytics. You can add in Google Analytics, you can see how much
traffic you're getting. Then over here you can add
in pages to your websites. So for example, I want
to add an About page. We'll just call this
about, about the URL. So it'd be finance.com
slash abouts. Show a link to this page. Yep. Then let's click on save. And there you go. So
now we've successfully add an About link. Then within this piece
of content right there we can add an image is bullet points,
links, HTML texts. You have a lot of different
little customizations over the way that
page will appear. In general, just
go with text than images and then maybe adding
some HTML code if need be. Maybe if you had like a
contact form, for example, you could put that in here, that sort of thing,
really that simple. So let me back out of
this and there we go. Okay.
6. Creating content for Tumblr: So let's navigate
back over here. Okay, so first I'll actually
make sure to click on Save. So if you don't click on Save, now these changes that you
make are going to save. And there we go. Okay, so we now have a
nice quick little website that we set up quickly. Now if we navigate back
to our settings page, you do have a couple
little things in here. So for example, likes. So via have share
posts you like. This is going to share
any posts we liked, okay? Following, you can choose
whether or not you want to show who you are falling on Tumblr
or in keep that private. Right down here we have asked, so you would turn
this on and it lets your audience ask you questions. Then we have to ask anonymous
questions, submissions, you can have people
submit posts, and then you can have the
submission guidelines. You didn't allow
different types of content over their messaging, allow messages from Tumblr
users you follow yes or no, or allow messages from everyone. Again, your inbox is over. There's you can get messages on the platform, the
affiliate links. So if you link to, if
you're writing about something and it's relevant to accompany that tumblr has an affiliate
relationship with though automatically linked to it that benefits
tambor and not use. So I personally would
turn this off and then use your own
affiliate marketing, get your own affiliate links and then add it to your website. The queue, again, you
can just set up a queue of posts that you want to
go at different times. Then the language visibility and then anyone
you've have blocked. And it's really that simple. Okay. So let me just go
ahead and click on the Nance just to show
you how it looks. Ok, so now we have home about ask me anything
instantly opposed. Again, these two links are because we turn the settings
on in the background. So again, some things you have direct control over what
appears in the menu bar. Sometimes it's because you have an item over here
that's turned on. Okay. And sometimes show your likes to have a little link to lakes. Again, depends on the team. So some things you can
turn that on and off, like this theme doesn't have
any link that says like, likes, and then the
top right there. Otherwise, it looks really good. Okay. So one little question I know
you're going to ask to say, how do I get rid of this, the Tumblr and follow
this and you can't. I can't. Okay, Tom, we're again, it's kind of a hybrid
between Twitter and Blogger. So it's a blogging platform where we can have your
own custom website, but it's like Twitter in the
sense that you can't get away from the
branding of Tumblr. And that's it. Okay, so then again, just navigate back to
your homepage over here. And then within here, you can just go through and
create content as you want. So texts, photo
quotes, and that's it. Okay? So you can just
post stuff right here. It's very easy. Okay, So let's navigate to
our account right there. Okay? So right over here we have
different aspects right there. So let's navigate to our posts. So once you navigate
to your opposed, this is where you can
delete stuff, okay? So I know you're gonna
be like How do I delete something I've published? I don't like, you gotta
click on this little icon. Then you go here, then you
got to navigate to your post. Once this opens up, then you can click
on the little trash icon to delete anything. And that's it. Okay. So anyways, that's how you
can start with Tumblr. Okay, It's really
nice little platform to create a minimalistic, simple sate,
recompose the videos, content, images, et cetera. You can interact with other
Tumblr users, et cetera. So anyways, that is
it for this tutorial.
7. Conclusion: All right everyone,
that's it for this course and how to create a website and blog
using a tumblr.com. I hope you enjoyed it and
I hope you've got a lot of value out of the course anyways, I just want to take a
quick second and say, thank you very much for
enrolling and have a great day. Bye bye.
David Utke, Web Pro and YouTuber
