1.2. Basic Settings

The first thing you may want to do is change some of your basic settings. To do this, you need to login to your account by going to http://podbean.com/login . This will take you to the main Dashboard where you can find links to all the various settings and publishing tools. Click the "Settings" tab located in the upper right menu bar. You'll then see the "General Options" page that looks like this:

Figure 1.1. Settings page screenshot

Settings page screenshot

From here, you can make a number of changes:

Channel Privacy- Choose whether you'd like your podcasts to be available to the public or just to friends that you invite to Podbean.

Change Your Logo- When you first sign up for your Podbean account, your logo is set to the default Podbean image. This image is displayed prominently on your podcasting website, so you may wish to change it to a logo of your own. Click the "Upload your own logo" link to upload your logo image file. Then select it from the drop down menu. Please note that your logo image file size can not be larger than 200K. If your image file is larger than 200K, it will not be shown in the list. After selecting the logo image, click the "Update Options" button at the bottom right of the General Options page and you're done! Your new logo has been added!

Channel Title - The Channel Title is essentially the "name" of your podcast. It can be anything you choose, from your user name or online identity to a phrase, company name or other unique identifying label.

Channel Category - The Channel Category indicates where your podcast account will be listed in the Podbean directory. Podbean defaults to the "General" category but you can change this by clicking the dropdown box next to "Channel Category" and choosing the listing that's appropriate for you.

Channel Tags - Channel tags are like keywords that help visitors to the Podbean site find your podcasting account. If you want your podcasts to be available to the public, then you'll also want to choose a few keywords or keyphrases that are relevant to your podcast. For example, a podcasting site that focuses on blogging and internet marketing might want to use tags such as "blogging", "internet marketing" and "search engine optimization" (without the quotation marks, of course).

Brief Description - The description will be shown in the header of your podcasting site just below your Channel Title.

You can also use this page to update your email address as well as set your local date and time. Once you've made your desired changes, just click "View Site" at the top left of the page and check out your modifications!