Step 1 - turning a blogger site into a CMS-like website

This is how the site has started.  A typical blogger site based on the Denim template.  We chose Denim, because of the relatively classic design which doesn't look too blog-like.


Before we got here, we had created a blog under bloggercmscom.blogspot.com. Then we registered the domain bloggercms.com using the blogger management interface under | settings | publishing | advanced settings.  Blogger offers a link "buy one now".  Advantage: all domain settings are automatically set for your blog / website - so our's is now called bloggerCMS.com.
Next steps:

1. create the Google Analytics account for the site and insert the needed code into the site.
2. add a menu-based navigation bar to the site
3. strip all blog-like elements from the site (including the so calle navigation bar which blogger by deafult puts at the top of the page)
4. stripping the sidebar of blog-like widgets (or as Google calls them: gadgets).  We keep the column however.
5. Getting a new favicon (to eliminate another tell-tale detail of Blogger)
6. Editing the Meat tags.