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The Basics Of Blogging

The Basics of Blogging

Obviously, since this is “Blogging 1oh1,” we need to start at the beginning! As you probably know, the blogging phenomena have reached the attention of the masses far and wide. Those who appreciate journalism would enjoy the engaging in the new hype of writing articles. Blogging’s popularity is constantly devouring the multimedia industry through the contributions of the literary advocate.

It’s a web page jam-packed with all the journalistic compositions and discussions about different agendas. A combination of having an on-line diary and compact topics, the rôle of blogging has become vital to cyber society.

Blogs are updated on a regular basis and are usually arranged chronologically, with the considering the first article being the most recent. Categories are organised. From archives to commentaries and blogrolls all the way down to the feeds.

Content

Typically, a blog’s content would greatly depend on the topic it’s dealing with. If you’re advertising something, like perfume, apparel, or a vintage automobile, you could feature catalogs of the products mentioned. Personal blogs consists of daily happenings, observations, comments about other persons’ comments.

Schools and universities can put posts containing write-ups regarding their campus’ historical background, faculty, and subjects or courses offered. A blog is often updated daily to give readers reasons to keep coming back for more. A steady stream of comments helps in this regard, also. The human mind is always seeking something new. Therefore, update.

Feedback

Comments are very much welcome. Come one, come all! It doesn’t matter who provides a comment as long as somebody writes something. Bottom line: what you’ve written had an effect on that mind and aroused some opinions to merit it. Be glad you have a comment. At least someone has read your posts. Here is interaction in print.

Tools and Concepts

Blogging can be a fuss if you don’t how the process works. What in the world does RSS, URL, blogroll, and all that jazz mean? How can I use it? For greater understanding, here are some terms and definitions of some of the tools usually used in blogging, and the concepts that go along with them. The list is alphabetical with most of the letters used.

  • Archives – records of important documents or files preserved for posterity
  • Blogger – is the largest platform that supports blogs on a commercial basis; it was started in 1999, and it is still free to put a blog on Blogger, which is owned by Google, but if you disobey their rules, they can shut you down!
  • Blogrolls – categorized list of networks to web pages
  • Comment Spam – irrelevant, illogical, or downright nasty or virulent comments posted on a web page, often is in poor taste or worse
  • Download – a verb pertaining to the transmission of documents, pictures, audios, or videos from the author’s memory storage to your computer
  • Excerpt – summarized ideas of the post usually containing only a part of the entire article (to whet your appetite for more)
  • Feeds – content from one website being supplied to another site, usually using RSS (see below)
  • Guests – are the readers, viewers (spammers included), etc., who visit your site
  • Hosts – web sites willing to accommodate your registration as a blogger and be the vessel for getting your invention onto the Internet
  • Introduction – preliminary part of the blog page,sometimes showing the personal profile of the author or a brief description of the subject material
  • Java – a software company that supplies a number of useful software devices to the Internet, which make your life as a Blogger and as a Guest more enjoyable and much more simple
  • Links – there are both internal links and external links in a blog; the internal links are there to take you from one area to another within the blog; external links take you to another blog or other source of information of entertainment on the Internet; “permalinks” and “hyperlinks” are variations of the terminology
  • Post – these are the articles (or posts) that are written to provide the content of the blog
  • Plugins – combined term for plug-ins, these are characters or scripts adding additional functionality to the blog site
  • RSS – (an abbreviation for “Really Simple Syndication”) this is a live link (see above) that allows one site to broadcast its content publicly, and on the other side, the receiving portion allows the guests to view the content from another site without leaving the one they are on
  • Sidebar – is a column that usually is placed either to the left or the right of the main content column – it is narrower and usually has a different font size or colour or style; there can be as many sidebars as there is space for, but the practical limit is four – generally two on the left and two on the right; one or two sidebars is more typical, and it is even possible to place a “sidebar” underneath the content in a one-column blog
  • Sub-Domain – see “URL” below
  • Syndication – as in newspaper or radio-tv publishing, there are columns that are distributed from the author (or author’s newspaper, for example) to other newspaper publishers – this is called “syndicating” the content, and the process is called “syndication;” the same process takes place with RSS feeds (see both descriptions here) in the blogging world
  • Theme – typically, but not always, this refers to the design parameters of the blog – this is what makes it look different from the one next door or down the street – a specific type font, a set of coordinated colors, often a thematic image to make it more memorable, like the light bulb on this blog
  • URL – is an abbreviation for “Uniform Resource Locator” which – in short – is the address you use to get to a specific website (including blogs) on the Internet; you may also see URI on occasion, and this stands for “Uniform Resource Indicator” and the URL is acutally a part of the URI. The most common URL denominator you will use is “http://” and the second most is probably “https://” – the secure version. The typical URL that you will use as a blogger takes the form “http://yourdomain.com” where the “http://” part is the denominator that indicates the protocol or system that is being used, the “yourdomain” is the name of the domain that you want to display, and the “.com” is the top level domain denominator – others are .net and .org, and there are over 100 others available today. If you want to know more about this, I suggest that you visit Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Locator – which brings up the point of a sub-domain: in the Wikipedia address, the “en.” that precedes the “wikipedia.org” domain name denotes that this is a sub-domain of wikipedia.org; a sub-domain is a part of a website that functions (or can function) as an independent part of the website; Wikipedia is broken up into different language sub-domains to make their life somewhat easier
  • Weblog – is a term that is used to describe the list of links that are recommended by the blogmaster – in this blog, we just call it “links” in the sidebar on the right side
  • WordPress – is the name of the most popular system for blogging on an independent platform (not using someone else’s platform for your blog); it is a non-profit organisation and is run through a huge number of volunteers who develop the software that runs the system; this blog is a WordPress blog. You can also host your blog for free on WordPress.com where there are 285,223 free blogs in service today

And that’s it – but obviously not all of “it” -the terms. The terms explained above embody the everyday world of the blogging community. Easy access to the blog doesn’t mean easy manipulation. There are certain concepts and tools that are necessary to make blogging possible, but the posts – as content – are the one thing that are instrumental in drawing the attention of the guests to the site.

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Bye-Bye!
Louisa
on Blogging-1oh1.com

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