Creating a new blog is reserved for system administrators. To create a new blog, choose "Create a new blog" from the blog selection menu.

This will display the Create Blog screen.

When you create a new blog, Movable Type will prompt you for the following information:

• Blog Name. Your blog name is your blog's primary public identifier. By default, it is displayed across the top of every page of your blog and sent in any TrackBack pings or pings to blog recently updated services.
• Site URL. This field specifies the base URL for your published blog pages. It must start with a fully-qualified domain name (e.g. http:// example.com/blog/ not /blog or example.com/blog) and should not end with a filename or extension.
• Site Root. This is the base filesystem path under which all of the blog's statically published templates are stored (however, it's also essential for dynamically published blogs). It should be the physical location that corresponds to the Site URL above.
• Timezone. This is the time zone in which all or most of the blog's users reside. This setting is mainly used for calculation of the date and time assignment for blog records

Click Create Blog once all fields have been filled out. Movable Type will create the blog and display th e General Settings screen, where you can specify other optional configuration settings. See Editing a blog's settings for more information.

Note: Once you have created a blog, it must be published before it can be viewed on the server.