Logging in to the new blogger

Sorry for not realising you would experience difficulty in logging in to the new Blogs, and especially to Joe for not responding sooner. Somehow your email got buried Joe. For the new blogger you need a Google email account (painless and free) although they didn't make this clear before switching.

You can get the required Google account here.

Having got your Google email account, the account address becomes your logging in name, i.e., your Username, after which you enter your Google Mail password. Let's suppose your email address is myname@googlemail.com, you use that to sign in. Not just the myname bit but the entire address including the @. And the password you enter is the password for that email address.