Blogging Basics
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 a short form of the word weblog. A blog consists of a series of posts which are organized by date. A blog is something like an online diary, but of course your blog can be about anything you like. While the majority of blogs are only text, you can see a lot of video and photo blogs out there as well. You’ll need to know a bit about the technical aspects of setting up your blog to get started.
First, let’s address platform. Your platform is a piece of software which lets you write your posts and upload them to your blog. Platforms will also include design tools to customize the look of your blog.
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.
Last is domain, which is the address of your blog on the web. This address will usually end in .com.
Now that you’ve learned these three important terms which all bloggers need to become familiar with, congratulate yourself- you have completed blogging 101.
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