Tuesday, February 26, 2008

EDC Gold: Blogging 101

Blogging 101 is mostly about the bloggingvocabulary. To understand blogs, you need to knowthe terms blog, platform, domain, and web host.Once you have mastered these key elements ofblogging, you can enter any conversation aboutblogging with confidence. After you know whatexactly a blog is, you will be on your way topassing the final exam of blogging 101.

Blog is short for weblog, which simply means aseries of online posts presented in reversechronological order. That's all! Most blogs are text,but there are also photo blogs and video blogs. Therest of blogging 101 has to do with the technicalside of things. If you are setting up a blog, you willneed a platform, a web host, and a domain. Ablogging platform is a computer software programthat allows you to write posts and to update yourblog. Your platform is also what you use to designthe look of your blog, from color scheme to fontsize. The web host is sort of like the virtual filecabinet where your blog is stored. Your computercommunicates with the host when you upload oredit a post. The domain is the online address ofyour blog, and usually ends in ‘dot com'. Now thatyou know what a blog is, what a platform is, andwhat domains and hosts are, congratulate yourself!You have passed blogging 101.

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