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!