Welcome to the Freeola Internet customer support pages. This guide is designed to help with setting your Blogger blog to publish via FTP to your Freeola web space. For more internet help topics please visit our main Support Page.

Do you have a Blogger account already but want to use it with your Freeola web space or wish to set an account up using your hosting account you have with Freeola? Then follow this simple guide to doing just that.

Firstly you will need to log into Blogger, or sign up an account if you do not already own a Google account. You may well already have a Google account if you use Gmail or any other of Google's Services. You can get to Blogger here.

To sign up for a Google account click "Create a Blog" on Blogger's homepage, otherwise sign in using the form at the top of the page. You will then need to "Create a Blog" if you have not done so already, you will be asked what title you want to give your blog, what URL you would like to use something like http://freeolablog.blogspot.com and possibly ask you to answer a security question. You will also then be asked what template you wish to use with your blog and then you will be notified that your blog has been created. Click through to "Start Blogging" to view your blog control panel.

If you already had a Blogger account you will just need to go straight into your blogging control panel, otherwise you should already be there if you have just signed up. In order to publish your blog via FTP to your web space you will first need to make sure your using the "Classic Template" and have set the "Blog Readers" option to "Anybody".

To set your theme to classic go to "Layout" and then "Edit HTML". Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click the "Revert to Classic Template" link. Now to make sure your blog can be read by anybody go to "Settings" and then to "Permissions". Set "Who can view this blog?" to "Anybody".

Now go to "Settings", then "Publishing" and then look for "Switch to:" and click "FTP (publishing on your ISP server)" next to it. Grab your FTP details from your MyFreeola account and then you need to enter your those details into the appropriate fields as explained below:

• FTP Server: This will be something like vip5.freeola.net.

• Blog URL: This is your domain name, however include http:// before it and if you wish to publish to a sub folder make sure you include it at the end of your domain name e.g. http://www.test.myfreeola.com/blog.

• FTP Path: This will be "htdocs" but if you are publishing to a sub folder within htdocs you will need to state that folder too like "htdocs/blog".

• Blog Filename: You can leave this as index.html unless you want to change it.

• Feed Filename: Again you can leave this as it is unless you want or need to change it.

• FTP Username: This will be your FTP username provided by Freeola, e.g. vip0123456.

• FTP Password: This will be your FTP password provided by Freeola.

Once you have entered these details fill in the security verification. Then click "Save Settings". You should then see a success message, click "Republish now" to upload your blog. Please note if you have not yet created any posts you will need to before your blog will appear on your web space.