Blogging 101

Mar
22

Blogging 101 is mostly about the blogging vocabulary. To understand blogs,
you need to know the terms blog, platform, domain, and web host.
Once you have mastered these key elements of blogging, you can enter
any conversation about blogging with confidence. After you know what
exactly a blog is, you will be 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! Most blogs are text,
but there are also photo blogs and video blogs. The rest of blogging 101
has to do with the technical side of things. If you are setting up a blog,
you will need a platform, a web host, and a domain. A blogging platform is
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 color scheme to font size. The web host is sort of like the
virtual file cabinet where your blog is stored. 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!