The following information is mainly about the blogging vocabulary. To know and understand blogs and blogging, you need to know the following terms: blog, platform, domain, and web host. Once you have mastered these key elements of the blogging world, you can enter any conversation about blogging with the utmost confidence. Once you understand what exactly a blog is, you will be well on your way to aceing the final exam of blogging 101. A blog is a website in which items are posted on a regular basis and displayed in reverse chronological order. That's all! Most blogs are text, hypertext, images, and links to other web pages and to video, audio and other files, but there are also photo blogs and video blogs. Authoring a blog, maintaining a blog or adding an article to an existing blog is called "blogging". Individual articles on a blog are called "blog posts", "posts" or "entries". A person who posts these entries is called a "blogger". Blogs are typically updated daily using a software program that lets people with little or no technical background to update and maintain the blog. Blogs are known for a conversational style of documentation. Often blogs focus on a particular "area of interest", such as political goings-on, celebrities or famous people. Some blogs discuss a person's own out look. The remaining info on blogging 101 has to do with the technical side of things. If you are going to set up a blog, you will need a platform, a web host, and a domain. A blogging platform refers to 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 font size to color scheme. The programs used most often are Wordpress, Movable Type, Thingamablog, Livejournal, Joomla, Drupal or SimpleLog. Blogger is another blogware that is not a standalone program. 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 understand what a blog is, what a platform is, and what domains and hosts are, congratulate yourself! You have passed blogging 101.
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