How to make LJ? Registration in LiveJournal

Blog-service - this site that allowsusers create their own blogs (online diaries), read diaries of other bloggers, add their friends (frendite) and read their entries in their friends' stream, join different user communities, etc. Today we will tell you how to make LJ, in other words - How to register on LiveJournal.

First you need to go to the LiveJournal site - livejournal.com. In the upper right corner of the site you will see the login form, and above it there will be a link "Create an account".

To do LJ, you need to click on this link. Opens registration form:

In the fields of this form you need to enter the following data:

1. Username - your login. It will be used to log into the system, displayed in your user profile, and your Live Journal address will look like your.login.livejournal.com. The user name can only contain lowercase Latin letters, numbers and an underscore and must be unique. If this username is already taken, the system will alert you.



2. E-mail address. Enter only the effective e-mail address: it will receive notifications from LiveJournal, in addition, without it you can not confirm the registration and retrieve the forgotten password.



3. Password. You need to come up with a strong password to access your account. It must contain at least six characters and should not be based on your login or e-mail address.



4. Confirm the password. Enter the selected password again to exclude the error.



5. Floor. Select your gender from the drop-down list. By default, it is not displayed.



6. Date of Birth. In the drop-down list, select your birth month, and enter the day and year manually.



7. Checking if you are a person. You will need to enter the captcha - a certain set of characters. It is necessary to confirm that you are a person, not a robot.



8. If you do not want to receive LiveJournal announcements by e-mail, do not put a tick in this checkbox.



9. When you have kept all the information, click on the button "Create an account"to make LJ.

After that, a window will open. "Fast start". It will help you set up your profile and LiveJournal. All fields are optional, but the user with an empty profile is unlikely to attract attention.

1. Name. Enter your name - this can be both a real name and a surname, or a pseudonym for communicating on the network. The name may not be the same as the user name (login).



2. Where are you at? From the drop-down list, select the country, and in the fields, enter the area and city.



3. What are you interested in? Enter your interests through comma: your favorite music, movies, TV shows, hobbies, other interests. In the future, the search for LJ by interests will help you find like-minded people.



4. About myself. In this field you can write everything you want to report about yourself to other users.



5. Account Type. You have a choice between two types -free upgraded account and paid account. The paid account has more opportunities, it can be paid using a bank card or various online payment systems.



6. Choose your magazine style. Here you can choose the style of your LJ. In the future, you can change it by selecting from more styles.



7. When you enter all the information and choose the style, click on the button "Save and continue".

Registration in LJ is over! You just had to go to the e-mail box you specified when registering - you should have come letter with further instructions. Follow the link from the letter and start blogging!

As you can see, making LJ is not so difficult. Just a couple of minutes - and you've already joined the multi-million army of bloggers.