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I know you are ready to get started but first things first. These tips will help you to learn how to set up a blog and get it running in no time at all. |
How to Get Started in Blogging in Five Minutes or Less
Start Blogging Right Away!
I put off starting a blog for a long
time because I thought it would be hard. I thought it would
be technical. I thought I'd have to install scripts and tear
my hair out getting them to work. At that point, most of
what I'd read about blogs and RSS was just so much
geek-speak. Another very simple blogging tool is
Wordpress. This blog is my first Wordpress blog, and I'm
very impressed with how powerful it is - as well as
simple.
Look in your C-panel for the Fantastico application, click it open, and then choose Wordpress to install. It will automatically install it on your site for you, and you can start blogging right away.
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Blog Tutorial 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.
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 site 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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