How to Back Up Your Blogger Blog

One of the things I have been meaning to do for months was to back up my blogs.

I had no idea how to do this, and the few tutorials I had seen, seemed complicated.

Little did I know that it takes about 1 minute.

I wanted to share the how-to's with you in case you're like me and have a nagging fear of your blog disappearing some day (as I've heard stories of) and Google not being able to help you out.  This is one of my February goals and was happy to cross it off the list!

When you back up your blog you will have a huge .html file on your hard drive that you can send to Google if your blog ever disappears.  Let's hope that day never comes, but there you go.

On the 1st of every month I:

  *Clean up my camera, delete all the previous photos that I've downloaded, and fully charge the batteries.
  *Copy our laptop hard drive to an external hard drive.
  *And now, back up my blogs.


Step 1:
Go to your Blogger Dashboard

Step 2:

Click on Settings

Step 3:

Under Blog Tools, click on Export Blog

Step 4:
Click on Download Blog

Step 5:
Do a Save As onto your Hard Drive (C: Drive)

 



And that's it!
If you have more than 1 blog, like me, then you'll need to do this for each of your blogs in your Dashboard. 

Really - less than a minute, and you're safe!



Y'all Come Eat!

I've really enjoyed trying out new recipes and modifying some old favorites over the last few months.

 Thomas, Brennan, and I have found a bunch more to try out soon.

So that our family blog isn't overrun with recipes, I decided to create another blog that is devoted entirely to cooking.

I hope that you'll join me over at Y'all Come Eat

http://www.yallcomeeat.com/

I'd love it if you followed me!

And for those who receive this through email, please let me know if you want to get Y'all Come Eat as well.

Please be patient with me as I get the new blog up and running and recipes transferred over.

Buen provecho!

Summer 2011 Blog Header

For those of you who read the blog through email or Google Reader, I just wanted to share our summer 2011 blog header with you!

New Spring Blog Header

For those who view our blog posts in a reader or through email, I thought I'd share the Spring 2011 blog header.  We're looking forward to the arrival of all of our flowers and blooming trees like the Weeping Cherry in front of our house.  And we're looking forward to Easter, longer days, and warmer weather!

Thanks again to Sarah @ Clover Lane whose Blog Header tutorial I refer to when creating our own.

Don't forget about the "What We're Reading" Linky Party on March 20th!

This month we'll link up at Ricki Jill's blog - Art @ Home!

Thank You to Jill @ Sneaky Momma Blogs!

A huge thank you to Jill who designed a number of improvements for our blog! 

I was looking for a better navigation bar (underneath the Fall Banner), photo links to different topics (I added Crafts, Organizing, Fall, Christmas, Spring, and Traveling), and a contact menu so people can find me on Facebook, Twitter... I had no idea where to start!

Jill was awesome to work with!  It took her no time at all.  I'm thrilled with the results.  If you're reading this in email or a reader, click here to go to The Boatwright Family blog itself and see Jill's great work!