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Blog till you drop.
By admin | July 22, 2008
What is a blog?
Originally known as a weblog, its a frequently updated, personal website featuring diary-type commentary and links. Blogs range from the personal diary type to the full blown marketing tool, maximised for profit. They can be unfocused,ranging over a series of topics or focused on one particular field.
They tend to have a number of things in common
- The content area with articles arranged in chronological order, the newest on top.
- archives of older articles
- comment areas,where people can leave comments or questions.
- A links area where people can leave links to their sites
- An about me page, where the author gives some info.
Blogs are made up of pages and posts. Pages are fairly static, the “about me” page, possibly an opt in page where readers are invited to leave their email details to get further information and the like.Posts are the “diary entries” frequently updated usually daily and giving pertinent information relevant to the blog and its readership. The posts are the articles and the machinery on which the blog and its success revolve.
There will usually be an archive section.The posts can be arranged in date order or you can archive them by author (some blogs have a number of contributors) or alphabetically. The techniques of organising and presenting the articles in a linear fashion is what makes blogging a popular tool.
How do you go about getting a blog?
There are a number of programmes available out there but one of the most popular is wordpress. How you get it and what you do with it to follow….
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