Blogging 101

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!