Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Blogging

For my first post, I’ll teach you about how to build a blog. (as what you are looking at now)
You can create a blog for free by visiting free blog hosting websites. They suggest implementation of such features as design templates, changing colors, selecting pictures and font. If you plan on creating a simple non-complicated blog about your interests and hobbies a free blog hosting website is what you need.


Step 1. Come up with your blog's topic. Choose a certain subject and stick to it. It will be difficult to run a blog about everything. For example, instead of blogging about cuisine of the world, bring to focus Turkish or Georgian one, or on internet tips just like what I am doing right now J


Step 2. Choose your host provider, the 2 most popular free blog hosting is blogger and wordpress. You can find them in blogger.com and wordpress.com. Please don’t be confused by wordpress.org and wordpress.com, I’ll tell you about the difference in the future.


 Step 3. Register an acoount and follow the instructions. Choose a design template that will suit your website perfectly. The control panel in blogger and wordpress are very user friendly. Don’t be scared off, ok ?  Both of them do provide a huge range of default templates. Select the template that fits your blog's topic. For example, choose a sports theme if you're blogging about volleyball or tennis.


Step 4. Think of your blog's name. This is the first thing the visitors will see. Their first impressions about your blog will depend on it. For this reason, we recommend you to come up with something catchy and original, something people will memorize, when looking at it.


Step 5. Your blog should be filled with content: articles, pictures or links to other websites. Do not forget, if you are not the original creator of any articles or pictures you added to the blog, you must cite the person or website that is.
Well, it is just a brief steps on building blog on your own, I’ll explain more about the difference between wordpress.com vs wordpress.org, advantages vs disadvantages of wordpress and blogger in the future.


Here I included a video on blogging with blogger.com, it's quite old, but don't worry the steps are almost the same.




For more information, if you want, you can go to http://bit.ly/eyiwsz and grab the precious information inside.
Good luck on your blog building J

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