Blogging For Beginners is all about teaching you the most basic vocabulary, which you will need to know to understand blogging.
The most important step in mastering anything is learning the terminology. That goes for investing in stocks, learning to blog.
These are the most basic terms you’ll need to understand if you want to be successful in blogging.
Blog is short for weblog. It’s just a series of posts presented online in reverse chronological order (most recent date first). A blogger is someone who writes the post and blogging is the act of writing a post. Blogs can be text only or can contain photographs or images, sound or video. A video blog is one in which posts are presented in video format.
A post is simply a new blog entry.
The rest of the terms you will need have to do with the technical parts of blogging.
You need a platform on which to store your blog. This is the software program that allows you to publish blogs. You can find a free host or host your own. The most popular free hosts are Google’s Blogger and WordPress. WordPress can host a blog for you, or you can have your own website and domain and host it yourself.
Free or hosted, you can design a blog to suit you with templates that let you make it look the way you want. There are uploads available on the net for free or for a fee. A template allows you to choose colors, layout, text style, and more.
Blogs can be public or private. If you are interested in making money from your blog, you want to make it public and then you need to learn a lot more about the topic you want to write about, how to write successful blog posts, how to get your blog found by people and more.