UPDATE: Before you try to use this method, read the comments section first.
UPDATE 13 November 2006: There is one more comment that says the original owner of the account cannot be removed, even if the new team member is given administrator works. Since I have limited time and may take some time to test it myself, please read the rest of the post with a pinch of salt. It may not work.
Bloggers frequently have more than one blogs. If the blogs are all in the same Blogger account, all of them will have the same profile. If you want to have different profiles for different blogs, this is what you must do. It would help if you have more than one browser otherwise, you will have to log in, log out, log in, etc. This will be especially true for those using Blogger Beta.
If like many, you have only Internet Explorer, I advise you to install FireFox. It is a much better browser than Internet Explorer. (you may chose to use only one browser if you want, but having 2 browsers will be more convenient). Refer to What is FireFox and why you should be using it. See also the advantages of having more than one browsers on your computer: Why you should be using more than one browser
OK, back to the topic. To get your blogs into different account:
1. Start a new Blogger Account with a different email address from your original account.
2. Open a different browser (if you want to use the same browser, you will have to sign out)
3. In the new browser, sign into your original Blogger account (Dashboard).
4. Select the blog you want to be in the new account.
5. Click the SETTINGS > MEMBERS tabs
6. Click "Add Team Member/s"
7. Enter the email address that you used for the new Blogger Account in the New User(s).
8. Go back to the previous browser. Sign into the email address referred to in no. 7
9. Look for the invitation. Accept the invitation.
10. Go back to the browser where you have the original Blogger account and the blog in which you want to be in the new account. In the MEMBERS setting, you should see a new member. Make him an administrator (be very sure of doing this).
11. Go back to the first browser and get into your new Blogger account and confirm that the blog is in your Dashboard.
12. Now that you are sure things have worked out, in your original Blogger account and the relevant blog, in the MEMBERS setting, remove yourself as a member.
Now you should have 2 blogs in two different Blogger account and you can set different profiles for the 2 blogs. And if you are using 2 different browsers, you can be logged into both at the same time.
Update: I have written this post solely from logic and from I know of how Blogger works. But I never had to try to change the profiles for my different blogs myself. A reader commented that he followed the instructions, but found that while he now have 2 users on both blogs as administrators, he could not remove the original user from the secondary blog because the remove option isn't available (see the comments section). If I have the time, I would test that out and report it here. In the meantime, if you have tried to make different profiles for your different blogs and found the same difficulties, I hope you will put your comment there.
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