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 →
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 →
A blog (short-cut for web log) is a technical term used to describe websites or parts of websites that are organized by posts. The posts are usually arranged by date where the most recent post appears at the top of the page. Blogineering is an example of a blog. Blogs are maintained by bloggers.
There are many types of blogs. They can be personal or corporate. They can be an online diary, a commentary on particular topic, an online newspaper, or they can be almost anything that you can think of. The video below has a good explanation about the basics of blogging.
Most blogs are text and combination of multimedia, but there are also bloggers who focus on blogging using particular media. There are photo blogs, video blogs, audio blogs, music blogs, and others. Read the rest of this entry →
