LGBT friends don’t LGBT friends blog on Blogger, Typepad, or Tumblr. So we’ve made it easy for you to invite your friends to check out OutLoudBlogs.com. Although it’s crucial, being a good friend requires more than keeping a friend’s hair out of the toilet while they’re vomiting. Being a good friend means you’re selfless, willing to [...]

Having an OutLoudBlogs.com address tells the world you’re a smart person, but there may come a time when you want your own domain name, like myowndomain.com. It’s easy cheesy for our Pro and Premium bloggers to map a domain that you already own to OutLoudBlogs.com. Create an A Record at your registrar that points your domain to our IP [...]

OK, so you’ve got your blog up and running, you’re writing good content and waiting for people to discover you. If you’re not waiting to be discovered you can stop reading here and move on to something else. RSS Feeds RSS stands for really simple syndication and at one point most believed it would replace email as [...]

Embedding video is a great way to bring your post to life; making it easy to add video is our job. Two simple ways to add video to your blog Really quick, really simple way is to post the URL into your post’s content area.   Make sure that the URL is on its own line and not [...]

By default at the top of every OutLoudBlogs page rests the Admin Bar with links to the OutLoudBlogs home page, log in and join buttons, and a visit random blog or member link way over to the right. The bar allows users to login and get back to the OutLoudBlogs’ home page from anywhere on the site. [...]

Your profile page is a great way for our bloggers and web surfers to learn more about you and what you’re up to on OutLoudBlogs.com. So unless you’re hiding from the law take a minute to fill out your profile; it’ll help create the OutLoudBlogs’ community. To get to your profile select ‘Profile’ from the ‘My Account’ [...]

If things look a little janky on your blog let us know right away. We’re dedicated to making sure your blog meets your specs, so that’s why we have 100+ themes to choose from. It’s hard to keep up with all of the new offerings each theme developer comes up with, but if you notice [...]

Creating a Contact Page There’s no way around it, once readers find your blog they will want a simple way to contact you. You could simply put your email address on a contact page, but unless you want to read through pages of Viagra and porn ads we wouldn’t recommend that. A simple and easy to use [...]

“So how do I make my fonts a different color or make text bold within my blog posts?” After someone starts blogging, that question comes faster than….i don’t know, than that person who comes fast. I can’t be witty all the time. Visual toolbar We’ve all used Microsoft Word before, right? If you haven’t, good god, maybe [...]