Tuesday, November 4, 2008

What Every New Blogger Needs To Know

By M Taylor

As you start of your career as a blogger, you are going to have to learn some of the important terminology which bloggers use. These are the four most important words for you to learn as a novice blogger: blog, domain, platform and web host. Once you learn these terms, you'll be able to discuss blogging as if you've been at it for years. When you understand how blogging works you'll have no trouble passing your blogging 101 exam.

Blog is an abbreviated form of the word weblog; that is to say a series of posts presented by date, much like an online diary. The majority of blogs are plain text, but video and photo blogs are out there as well. Blogs themselves are relatively simple, but to set one up you'll need to learn some of the technical aspects; you're going to need a web host, a domain and a platform.

First we should talk about platforms. A platform is the software which provides you the ability to write and edit your blog posts, as well as to place theme on your blog. There are also tools included to help you customize the look of your blog, letting you adjust colors, fonts and other design elements.

Web hosts are the next term we need to address. A web host is the computer which your blog will "live" on (this is not your own computer) - think of it as a sort of virtual file cabinet which holds your blog posts.

Domain is simply the web address of your blog, typically ending in .com.

After learning all of these important blogging terms, you can congratulate yourself for passing your final blogging 101 exam.

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