Have you visited and read other blogger's blog? If you have noticed, some blogs do have extra web tools or add ons to their web pages. I'm sure you have read some blogs with calendars, clocks, statistics, some quotes, guestbooks, shout box or anything that makes their blogs more beautiful, aside from the blog content of course. Some blogs do have these colorful banners, advertisers or tiny buttons. All of those including the advertisements are extra web tools.
I have mentioned in my previous post, most bloggers now adays are earning extra income from their blogs. You've seen banners and advertisement in their blogs? that's where the earnings comes from. Income are not really thousands of dollars, but they do help and not all bloggers are lucky to have these streams of income from blogging. It helps stretch the tight budget. Many bloggers do not want to commercialized their blogs. It is your choice if you want to or not.
I will post about this money in blog later. In the mean time, lets focus on the add ons or the extra tools you can add to your blogs. As I have said, if you do not have any idea about HTML codes, you do not have to worry because all you need to do is copy the HTML code provided and paste it somewhere in your blog template. I will also discuss later about blog template, so you would know where to paste this codes.
Free Web Tools
1. Statistics Counter - this is a small button displayed somewhere in the blog. Some statistics counter are invisible. This is a very helpfull tool if you wanna know how many visitors come and read your blog and track where they are from.
2. Additional Contents - some sites do offer free content that you can add in your blog. These contents are updated by them regularly.
3. Games - some sites offer free games you can add to your blog to entertain your blog visitors and would probably make them come back often.
4. Calendars/ Clocks - some website offers free clocks where you can pick the time zone and city
5. Guestbooks - where your visitor can leave a message or comment
6. Comments Box - box where your visitor can leave a short message/comment
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Monday, November 27, 2006
How Will I Start Blogging?
How Will I Start Blogging?
You have reach my page for a reason. I would guess that, like me, you are a "blogger", maintaing some blogs about certain topics (of your choice) or maybe you just love to read blogs. For whatever reasons, I wanna say "thank you" for visiting my page and I hope that you will enjoy reading my entries here. If you have notice, I just started this blog. I wish that I will be able to continue this blog, improve as time goes on and have lots of visitors, like you, and hopefully gain some friends. Please leave a comment or a message in my shoutbox. If you have a blog, type in your URL so I can visit your site. Together, let's explore the world of blogging and enjoy.If you don't have a blog yet and wanting to have one, you probably ask yourself, "how will I start?". I have mentioned in my previous post, you don't have to be a master of website coding to have one. If you have no idea about all these HTML codes and XHTML, you can still make a weblog. There are so many site hosting blog for FREE and no need to worry about template lay out because they already have FREE templates for you to choose from. All you got to do is register to their service. Once you are registered, you can start typing in your blog entry. Isn't that nice?You need to decide what kind of blog you want to make. Do you want to make an online diary? A photo blog? or something about specific subject? You might want to think of a good blog title and a good blog name that would match your soon entries. It would be better to read more blogs, books, or any other sources before you start making your own blog. Searching around and visiting wide range of blogs will help you broaden your horizon about the subject that you have in mind.Here are some sites that offer FREE hosting for blog. (Click the underlined name of the site below to visit, clicking will not open to another window, click back if you want to come back at this page later).
1. Bravenet - Free web hosting. Free resources to help you build. You get access to articles and tutorials, font, clip art, and audio libraries, quick references and tons of blog tools you can use for your blog - all for FREE.
2. Blogger - free web hosting and have ready to use templates. Also direstly sign you up to Google Adsense program.
3. WordPress - It's also free. They also have some free blog tools like calendar, blog stats and categories.
4. LiveJournal - a simple-to-use communication tool that lets you express yourself and connect with friends online. You can use LiveJournal in many different ways: as a private journal, a blog, a social network and much more.
5. Xanga - a community of online diaries and journals. You can easily start your own free journals, share thoughts with your friends and meet new friends, too! As I have said, there are so many sites that offer blog hosting for free. You can use search engines to search for those sites. Most online community sites like MySpace and Friendster also offers free blog services.
You have reach my page for a reason. I would guess that, like me, you are a "blogger", maintaing some blogs about certain topics (of your choice) or maybe you just love to read blogs. For whatever reasons, I wanna say "thank you" for visiting my page and I hope that you will enjoy reading my entries here. If you have notice, I just started this blog. I wish that I will be able to continue this blog, improve as time goes on and have lots of visitors, like you, and hopefully gain some friends. Please leave a comment or a message in my shoutbox. If you have a blog, type in your URL so I can visit your site. Together, let's explore the world of blogging and enjoy.If you don't have a blog yet and wanting to have one, you probably ask yourself, "how will I start?". I have mentioned in my previous post, you don't have to be a master of website coding to have one. If you have no idea about all these HTML codes and XHTML, you can still make a weblog. There are so many site hosting blog for FREE and no need to worry about template lay out because they already have FREE templates for you to choose from. All you got to do is register to their service. Once you are registered, you can start typing in your blog entry. Isn't that nice?You need to decide what kind of blog you want to make. Do you want to make an online diary? A photo blog? or something about specific subject? You might want to think of a good blog title and a good blog name that would match your soon entries. It would be better to read more blogs, books, or any other sources before you start making your own blog. Searching around and visiting wide range of blogs will help you broaden your horizon about the subject that you have in mind.Here are some sites that offer FREE hosting for blog. (Click the underlined name of the site below to visit, clicking will not open to another window, click back if you want to come back at this page later).
1. Bravenet - Free web hosting. Free resources to help you build. You get access to articles and tutorials, font, clip art, and audio libraries, quick references and tons of blog tools you can use for your blog - all for FREE.
2. Blogger - free web hosting and have ready to use templates. Also direstly sign you up to Google Adsense program.
3. WordPress - It's also free. They also have some free blog tools like calendar, blog stats and categories.
4. LiveJournal - a simple-to-use communication tool that lets you express yourself and connect with friends online. You can use LiveJournal in many different ways: as a private journal, a blog, a social network and much more.
5. Xanga - a community of online diaries and journals. You can easily start your own free journals, share thoughts with your friends and meet new friends, too! As I have said, there are so many sites that offer blog hosting for free. You can use search engines to search for those sites. Most online community sites like MySpace and Friendster also offers free blog services.
Why do people blog?
Some people write a blog as a hobby or to pass time and share experiences with others. They love the freedom of expressing themselves and reflecting over things through writting blogs. Sharing the voice within them, the opinions and thoughts about something are heard by the readers, friends or even strangers. Blogger loves the fun of connecting to their readers and the satisfaction they get from gaining new friends and hearing their readers comments about his or her posted topic (sometimes called blog entry or blog post). Some people write about their daily experiences where readers get to know them and learn from their experiences. It serves as their online diary or online journal. Other people uses blog as a way to kill boredom, some uses blog to socialize and stay in touch with their friends and relatives, connect even to those who are living across the countries. Most bloggers uses blog as a way to practice their writing ability. Blogs can serve as effective tools in businesses too. Some use blog to hold a conversation with customers, employers and public in general.
Unknown to some bloggers, there are ways to monetize a blog to earn extra income. Some bloggers are now enjoying extra income from their weblogs. It's great having fun blogging and earning at the same time. How? That will be one of the next topics I will post here. In the mean time, if you are interested to start blogging, relax and start thinking as to what topic or subject you are more interested with or the subject you want to share to your soon readers. You can either make a journal-style blog, a photoblog, a subject based blog, or a link compilation blog. It's all up to you. Also, start thinking of a nice name for your blog. What would it be? Something nice and something that would reflect what your blog is all about. Unleash your creativity and let the good writer within yourself shine. Have a great time!
Unknown to some bloggers, there are ways to monetize a blog to earn extra income. Some bloggers are now enjoying extra income from their weblogs. It's great having fun blogging and earning at the same time. How? That will be one of the next topics I will post here. In the mean time, if you are interested to start blogging, relax and start thinking as to what topic or subject you are more interested with or the subject you want to share to your soon readers. You can either make a journal-style blog, a photoblog, a subject based blog, or a link compilation blog. It's all up to you. Also, start thinking of a nice name for your blog. What would it be? Something nice and something that would reflect what your blog is all about. Unleash your creativity and let the good writer within yourself shine. Have a great time!
Sunday, November 26, 2006
What is a blog?
What is a blog?
Blog is short for weblog (occasionally spelled web log). It is a is a web-based publication consisting primarily of periodic articles about a particular topic normally in reverse chronological order (most current on top), that is frequently updated and intended for general public consumption. Blogs generally represent the personality of the author or his opinion or ideas towards certain topic (the topic of his interest or his web site content). The act of writing about something in one's blog or updating a blog is called blogging and the author or the person who keeps and updates the blog is a blogger. A blog include blog title (this is the name of your blog), a blog description (you may or may not add this, typically a description of your blog), an entry date ( the date your post or entry was submitted), entry title ( the title of the post), entry body (the content of your post which may contain audio files, video files, pictures or other images ), author's name (for a group oriented blog, it is the writer of the certain post/entry) , comments ( allow the readers to contribute their own thoughts and reaction about the certain post made), archives ( links to all or previous blog entries or posts), links (links to third parties or other web addresses), Ads (your web host or others). You can always customize your blog template/lay out ( blog format). If you are good at HTML or HyperText Markup Language, it would be very easy for you designing your page and you will never be limited to a particular program's features. You will be able to add whatever you need without having to struggle with confusing software. If you have no idea about website codings, it's alright, there are so many sites that offer blog hosting for FREE and offers various templates or web lay out for you to choose from. All you need to do is register for the free service, fill up online form that ask about your blog title, description of your blog and the ones mentioned above and for less than 5 minutes...whoolah!!!! your blog is ready for entry.I will be posting the list of those sites that offers FREE blog hosting in my next post here. I am trying to arrange my post in order. I hope I am helping you and not making you confuse about the world of blogging! Get back here soon for more post. Thanks!
Blog is short for weblog (occasionally spelled web log). It is a is a web-based publication consisting primarily of periodic articles about a particular topic normally in reverse chronological order (most current on top), that is frequently updated and intended for general public consumption. Blogs generally represent the personality of the author or his opinion or ideas towards certain topic (the topic of his interest or his web site content). The act of writing about something in one's blog or updating a blog is called blogging and the author or the person who keeps and updates the blog is a blogger. A blog include blog title (this is the name of your blog), a blog description (you may or may not add this, typically a description of your blog), an entry date ( the date your post or entry was submitted), entry title ( the title of the post), entry body (the content of your post which may contain audio files, video files, pictures or other images ), author's name (for a group oriented blog, it is the writer of the certain post/entry) , comments ( allow the readers to contribute their own thoughts and reaction about the certain post made), archives ( links to all or previous blog entries or posts), links (links to third parties or other web addresses), Ads (your web host or others). You can always customize your blog template/lay out ( blog format). If you are good at HTML or HyperText Markup Language, it would be very easy for you designing your page and you will never be limited to a particular program's features. You will be able to add whatever you need without having to struggle with confusing software. If you have no idea about website codings, it's alright, there are so many sites that offer blog hosting for FREE and offers various templates or web lay out for you to choose from. All you need to do is register for the free service, fill up online form that ask about your blog title, description of your blog and the ones mentioned above and for less than 5 minutes...whoolah!!!! your blog is ready for entry.I will be posting the list of those sites that offers FREE blog hosting in my next post here. I am trying to arrange my post in order. I hope I am helping you and not making you confuse about the world of blogging! Get back here soon for more post. Thanks!
Saturday, November 25, 2006
Blogdict
Yes! Another blog for me. As my URL name says, i'm a BLOGDICT! ( a blog addict). It's just a word I coined. I don't know if there's such word. I am enjoying the world of Blogging. I am hoping to post relevant informations about blogging and everything about it. I hope you will enjoy and love it the way I do.
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