You And Blogs

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! You have passed blogging 101.

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