| Blog Software Basics |
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There are many ways to start your own blog. If you are experienced with web publishing software and hosting your own website there are many blogging software options. For others, you'll want to choose a paid or even free hosted blog platform.
Blogging Software Blog software is typically a complete web content management tool. Blog software is not only used for blogs, but it is also used to create simple websites that are neatly organized with the core periodic content sequenced by date and month of the blog post entries. Blog software automatically organizes your blog entries with additional category options to help your blog readers to find relevant posts. Tags and keywords also add another dimension of organization to your blog posts. The blog software tool utilized provides you the web based environment to enter content. The blog database contains the raw data for your blog. Selecting a blog template allows you to control the presentation and style of your blog. If you plan to use a software package to run your blog you'll also need to have a domain name (startingablog.com) and a blog hosting (any website hosting) company that provides you the server to manage your blog files and website. Most web hosting companies provide both domain name registration and tools to automatically install the required software to start a blog. Remember, if you manage the blog platform yourself you will be responsible for backups of both your web files and database as well as updating the blog software to the latest version. Hosted Blog A simple way to start you blog is to use one of the many free or monthly fee based blog services. For free blogs, the hosted blog platform will typically present the blog on their domain and your blog will be a sub domain of their core site. You can find options for hosted blogs at http://wordpress.org/hosting/. Blogger.com by Google is another simple to start blogging tool. For more advanced features and more control options you may want to look at Squarespace.com or Typepad.com. These blog tools will also allow you to post your blog to your own domain and just use the blogging platform as a service. If your planning on starting a blog for commercial purposes you'll want to have the features present in the more advanced blog platforms. For additional resources see also the blog tools directory .  |
