Blogging Basics
Blogging basics start with understanding the vocabulary of blogs. You need to know what blog, blogging platform, domain and web host all mean. I'll give you a quick overview on what each of these terms mean. Once you know what you're talking about, you'll be able to start blogging on your own.
Blog is short for weblog, which simply means a series of online posts presented in reverse chronological order. That's all! Most blogs are text, but there are also photo blogs and video blogs. The rest of blogging 101 has to do with the technical side of things. If you are setting up a blog, you will need a platform, a web host, and a domain.
A blogging platform is a computer software program that allows you to write posts and to update your blog. Your platform is also what you use to design the look of your blog, from color scheme to font size. Common platforms are Typepad and WordPress. A web host is a place where your web files are exposed to the rest of the world. The web host will take care of various things like accepting page requests from internet users and returning the appropriate web page. Don't worry, they make all this transparent, so you don't have to worry about it! You just need one.
The domain is the online address of your blog, and usually ends in 'dot com', though it may it 'dot net', 'dot org' or various newer extenstions.
Now that you know what a blog is, what a platform is, and what domains and hosts are, congratulate yourself! You'll be able to hold a basic conversation with your fellow bloggers now. It wasn't that hard, now was it?
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Published July 14th, 2008
Filed in Internet