June 27, 2010

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Blogging - What It Is, What to Use, Why It's So Awesome

Blogging is the current, and probably will be for a long time, "in" thing to do when making a website about, well, anything at all. Without further ado, let's talk about blogging.

What It Is

A Blog, which is a short way to way weblog, is a type of website, most likely run by a single person, in which they post about things going on in their life or on issues going on in society. Originally started as a way to express personal opinions, these have grown into powerful tools that can be used for almost any application at all. Many people use these as business platforms to sell items or promote things. If you have something to talk about, you can use a blog to spread it to the entire world.

What to Use

There are a few blog programs out there, well, program is not the right term, a blog is a website that consists on a lot of different files as well as a database to store all the information it uses. The most used right now is a blog called Word Press and it is pretty much the standard used by personal blogs, business blogs and just about anything else you can think of. Word Press is free to download and use and you can customize it just about any way you can imagine.

Why It's So Awesome

Blogs are awesome for a few reasons, the first being they are so incredibly easy to use. The setup for Word Press is 98% automatic and the 2% you have to do, are explained for you step by step and will take about 5 minutes. You can customize the blog any way you want from free themes to themes you pay for, which are much more professional and cooler looking and you can even design your own if you want.

No matter what you want to say to the world, using a blog is one of the most effective, if not the most effective, and easy way to get it done.

Mark

Posted by Mark at June 27, 2010 2:26 PM

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