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Главная » 2010 Январь 08 » Blogging 101
1:30 PM Blogging 101 |
Blogging 101 is mostly about the blogging vocabulary. To know and understand blogs and blogging, you need to know and understand the terms: blog, platform, domain, and web host. Once you have mastered these main elements of the blogging world, you can fit in to any conversation about blogging with full confidence. After you know what exactly a blog and blogging is, you will be well on your way to passing the final exam of blogging 101. Blog is short for weblog, which simply means a series of online posts presented in reverse chronological order. That's all! A blog comprises text, images, hypertext, and links to other web pages and to video, audio and other files, but there are also photo blogs and video blogs. Authoring a blog, maintaining a blog or adding an article to an existing blog is called "blogging". Individual articles on a blog are called "blog posts", "posts" or "entries". A person who posts these entries is called a "blogger". Blogs are typically updated daily using a software program that lets people with little or no technical background to update and maintain the blog. Blogs use a conversational style of documentation. Often blogs focus on a particular niche or "area of interest", such as world events, political happenings or celebrity sightings. Some blogs discuss a persons daily life. The remaining info on blogging 101 has to do with the technical aspects of blogging. If you are setting up a blog, you will need a platform, a web host, and a domain. A blogging platform refers to 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 font size to color scheme. The programs most often used. Next you need a web host. Web hosts are companies that provide space on a server they own or lease for use by their clients like you as well as providing Internet connectivity for web sites. Your computer communicates with the host when you upload or edit a post. The domain is the online address of your blog and usually ends in "dot com"'. Now that you know what a blog is, what a platform is, and what domains and hosts are, congratulate yourself! You have passed blogging 101. Check out a few blogging sites to find out how to start a blog. |
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