Blogineering

Now that you know what blogging platform to use (WordPress, Blogger, or Tumblr, for instance) for your blog, it is important to know and decide what to write or blog about.

Many people suddenly just jump into blogging without thinking in the longer term. There are quite a few questions you need to answer for yourself when you start blogging. Some of these include the following: Read the rest of this entry →

Things You Need to Start a Blog

Now that you know what a blog is, the second question that you are probably thinking is “How do I start a blog? What are the things I need?”

You can blog for free, or you can buy your own domain and pay a hosting company to store your blog files. The latter is usually called self-hosted blogging although strictly speaking, most self hosted blogs are hosted by commercial companies. For now, we will discuss free blogging which is very ideal for starters. Hosted blogging are for more experienced bloggers.

To start a free blog you only need to be connected to the internet. There are many free blog hosts on the internet. Some popular free blog hosts are WordPress (there are also hosted WordPress blogs), Blogger, and Tumblr. For our first tutorial series, we will use WordPress. Read the rest of this entry →