Blog Tutorial
People feel the need to share their thoughts and opinion with other people. Nowadays, the most effective way to do that is to create your own weblog or, as it is most popular - blog. But, how to start your own blog? Fortunately, today starting a blog site is a really easy task.
- There are free Open Source blog tools, which help you create and manage your blog site.
- You do not need to know anything about web design or development to start blogging.
- All you need to do is open a hosting account, where you can have a blog application installed and activated. Here, at SiteGround, we offer FREE blog installation with our blog hosting package. You can start creating your site right away.
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The easiest way to create a blog site is by using a ready-made blog tool.
- The blog application has built-in fuctionality such as, posting articles, HTML editor, commenting, archive, etc.
- The most popular blog tools have a large supporting community. You will be able to find free themes for your blog and customize it the way you like.
Which blog application to use?
With the help of a blog application you needn't be a web designer or developer in order to share your thoughts with the world. In the following pages you will find brief instructions how to build your own blog by using two of the most popular blog tools:
Define: Blog
There are different descriptions of that concept. According to most of the articles in the Internet 'blog' is short form for 'weblog', a frequently updated publication of comments and thoughts on the web. Usually it is reflecting the views of the blog's creator. Blogs consist of text and images and are sorted by date. The newest information is on the top and there is an archive of the old one. People create blogs to share their live experience with the world. The person who is updating that journal is called blogger. They write about different topics: from the typical daily situations to the progress of some scientific researches. The readers also can leave comments and this make the whole thing more interesting and useful.
History of blog
Blogs are part of the World Wide Web since its creation. In the beginning they did not have a define name, but their purpose was near to the contemporary ones. Here is a list of the first blogs:
- Dawn of Internet: Tim Berners-Lee at CERN begins keeping a list of all new sites as they come online.
- June 1993: NCSA's oldest archived 'What's New' list of sites.
- June 1993: Netscape begins running it's 'What's New!' list of sites.
- January 1994: Justin Hall launches Justin's Home Page which would become Links from the Underground.
- April 1997: Dave Winer launches Scripting News.
- December 1997: Jorn Barger coins the term 'weblog''.
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