Blogging has become increasingly popular over the last few years. With many options opening up to the professional blogger and the D.I.Y blogger a like. Blogging is a great way to establish your online presence and get your voice heard. The beauty of blogging is that anybody can do it, regardless of experience and technical know how.
There are some basics to blogging that you need to understand before embarking on your blogging journey. Blogs have there own vocabulary, understanding some of the basic terminology will put you in great standing within the blogging community.
Here we have a quick guide to blogging. Once you know these terms, hanging out with other bloggers will be a breeze.
Blog: Short for Weblog. Simply put a blog is a series of online posts presented in reverse chronological order. These posts can be anything from plain text posts explaining a technique or a holiday destination, to a full photo blog post, very good for any aspiring photographers to showcase their work. Video blogging is becoming very popular, with the advent of online screen capture software it has never been easier to make a instructional or product review video.You can also add audio to your blog posts, making it ideal for people to listen to whilst driving or pursuing their favorite hobby. The audio can be made available as a Mp3 file and downloaded as a podcast.
Platform: Your blog platform is simply a computer software that allows you update your blogs posts, pages and design online. There are many blog platforms available including the very popular WordPress and also joomla.Your platform will normally have some storage built into it, this is great for uploading your image, video and audio files straight into your blogging platforms media library.
Your platform can also help you in designing your blog. The ever popular WordPress uses themes. These are readily available online in free or paid formats. You can really put your personal touch to your blog.
Domain: Your blogs domain is quite simply it’s online address, otherwise known as it’s Url. (Uniform Resource Locator). Your domain is the place where people can find you on the internet. These Url’s come with a extension usually a “Dot com” or they can have the extension “Dot net, Dot org, or local extensions such as Dot Co Dot Uk.” There are a vast array of Dot extensions you can now choose from when registering your domain.
Web Host: A web host or hosting as it is commonly referred to is basically a online storage system or a filing cabinet. Your blog is stored on your hosting companies servers, making it accessible from anywhere. A true virtual storage system. Your blog then communicates with the host whenever you make an update to your blog, this is either when you post or add a page or upload media files to your library. Your host then stores this information and makes it available to view online.
There has never been a better or easier time to get a online presence and get your voice heard. You can blog about anything you like. Produce your own media and share it with the world, showcase your writing talents, or use your blog as a virtual gallery for your art or photos.
4 Basics of Blogging - Your Blogging 101
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