If you look at the Bloggerce help page, you'll see that it's "centered" on the page. Normally, our templates fill the whole screen and automatically resize as you resize your browser window. If you want your blog to always have the same width, and be centered on the page, follow the following step-by-step how to:

The standard templates available for your blog are cool, but you may want to include a banner image instead of just having your blog's name written in text. The process is a little complex, but follow these steps and you can do it too!

First, create your banner image in a graphics program like Adobe Photoshop. You'll then need to upload it to Bloggerce using the File Manager.

Go to the File Manager section and create a new subdirectory called Banners. You'll see it in the list below. Click on it, then click Browse above to find and copy your image. Click upload and wait until the page says "File Uploaded."

Now you should see your image in the list below. Right click it and choose "Copy Shortcut." You might want to paste this into a Word or text document or something like that because you'll need it later.

Next you're going to create a Custom Component. Click the Look and Feel tab at the top navigation bar. On the following page, you'll see a row containing Options at the bottom of the navigation tabs. Click on Layout. Then click on Components. We're going to customize the Blog Name component to display the banner image we uploaded.

Click on the Customize button next to the Blog Name component. You'll see HTML code that looks like this:

<div class="component">

<div class="componentBlogname">

<a href="{{blog.url}}">{{blog.name}}</a></div>

</div>

We want to replace the words and symbols {{blog.name}} with something like the following:

<div class="component">

<div class="componentBlogname">

<a href="{{blog.url}}"><img src="http://www.bloggerce.com/banners/Logo.gif

Now, you're not going to write bloggerce.com but your own site name - such as example.bloggerce.com, and the name of the file will be the one you just made - it should be exactly what you just copied as a shortcut - just paste that (or copy and paste it if you placed it in a Word document for safe keeping)

To finish up, click the Add Component button. Now you will see there is a new custom component called Custom: Blog Name.

To place this in your layout, click on the Header tab (still under the Look and Feel main tab). You'll see three columns with an existing component called Blog Name already in one of the columns. And you'll see the Custom Component you just created in the Inactive column to the right.

Drag and drop the Custom Component into the column where Blog Name is now, and drag Blog Name out and into the Inactive column. Click Save and preview your page.

We know it's a bit complex, bbut you can do it! Any questions: contact us: help@bloggerce.com.

Bloggerce offers you a great way to share content privately with colleagues or friends. All you have to do is create a secure or "restricted" category. It's as simple as checking one box. Then only readers you've authorized will have access.

You can restrict access completely - so no one sees the private category at all unless you give explicity permission in advance - or you can show the category but display a message saying "sorry, this content is restricted" and then allowing readers to request access. It's a great way of saving some content for paying customers or as a means to collect email addresses from potential prospects.

Blogging is all about sharing. When you create a Bloggerce blog, you have a platform for getting your writing, your pictures and your podcasts out to the world wide blogsosphere...with the click of a button.

Bloggerce lets you post:

Articles
Reviews (we have different templates for books, movies, and music)
Pictures (arrange your photos by albums, automatically resize and generate thumbnails)
Podcasts - if you can make an audio file, you can post it and let your listeners subscribe. Read our podcast page for more details.
Files of any kind - Bloggerce is a full-fledged Content Management System. Any file you can create, you can share: from Word documents to Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations.

All this with no messy HTML to worry about as you would with a traditional website building program.

So what are you waiting for? Bloggerce is the best place to build a blog, post a podcast or share your stuff. Get started sharing today.

If you have a MovableType or TypePad blog, follow these steps to move to Bloggerce.

(If you have a Blogger blog, click here for instructions.)

Let's consider this little Movable Type blog, pictured in its entirety below:

This blog doesn't have just entries, it has categories. I'd like to be able to not only import those categories; I also want to import my categorizations. In other words, if I had an article posted under Category X in my Movable Type blog, I'd also want it under Category X in my Bloggerce blog.

There's more: some of the entries have comments. The comments don't just contain the title and text of the comments, but also the URLs and emails addresses of the people who left them. If I were to switch blogging tools, I'd want to take them along.

Bloggerce's Import tool makes switching easy. The first step is to export your blog from Movable Type. This is a one-click process that takes your blog and turns it into a text file which you can save on your hard drive.

Once you have this file, you can import it into Bloggerce. It's a simple matter of logging into Bloggerce and calling up its Import feature, shown below:

In the screenshot above, we've selected the Movable Type option (which imports Movable Type and TypePad blog export files) and selected the export file. I've also checked the Create categories referenced in import file checkbox, which tells Bloggerce that I want to import my Movable Type categories.

Clicking the Preview Entries button starts the importing process. There are two ways to go through this process:

• You can go through each entry in your blog, reviewing it and even making changes if needed, or
• You can ask Bloggerce to import it all at once.

Let's review the first entry to be imported:

As you can see, Bloggerce read the title and body perfectly. A quick glance to the right confirms that the categories under which this article was posted were also read in:

...and a glance down shows that the comments, along with all the information attached to them, were read in too.

Bloggerce offers many options when importing a blog, as you can see below.

I took the simple route and clicked the Import All button. Since the blog was a small one, it took only a couple of seconds, and the process was complete. A click of the View Blog button in Bloggerce's Control Panel gave me this

A click on the permalink for the "Chicken and Waffle" entry gave me this:

The move is complete, and everything -- entries, comments, categories -- is intact. Just as the movers made moving into my house much easier, Bloggerce's import tool made "moving in" quite painless. In fact, if we count starting from Bloggerce's import tool page, the move from Movable Type to Bloggerce took six clicks!

-- this article was adapted from one posted by Joey DeVilla of Tucows who originally wrote it on the Blogware Help site