Blogging Basics Blogs appear on the news pretty often these days.But there is a good chance you have never seen a blog.What are blogs?There are now Billions of blogs. This is my blog.In this blog,you will have a chance to enter the World of Blogging.Main objective of this blog is to discuss basics of Blogging.From my next blog you can learn more Advanced Blogging Tricks.In this artical,you will learn how to create your own blog,publish it to the www, How to Chose good blogging service. So start blogging right now. Happy Blogging!
Who is a Blogger? There are nearly millions bloggers at the moment,writing,ranting and raving about a variety of topics.
Free Blogs Basic blogs are free.Most blogging Toolsets have additional features available for a price. www.wordpress.com www.wordpress.org
Create a Post You can add new entries to your blog. Basically,all you do is type in the entry and push the post buton to post it. If a Blogger is intrested in Chemistry, He/She might post news article and every piece of research He/She finds on the Chemistry.If a blogger is intrested in Sports,He/She might post commentary on them.
Blogging Tips After learning the basics of blogging you can visit my "Blogging Tips" Blog to learn to be a more creative blogger. There are Tips for those who using the popular GOOGLE'S Blogger blogging service. Create a Blog Creating a new blog is only takes about 2 minutes.You enter your name,e-mail,password and other infomation. What are Blogs? A blog must contain a chronological order of posts by auther's and should be updated regularly.A blog is normally a single page of entries. Blogs and Websites Normal website usually has a home page,with links to lots of sub web pages.A blog is normally a single page.There may be archives of older entries.There may be archives of older entries,But the main page of a blog is all anyone really cares about.Entries in a blog usually come from a single author.Basically a blog is lot like an online diary.
Blog Types If your blog is running just to update your friends, it is a personal blog.If you are writing articles,It is a public blog.If some friends write together at the same place,It is a group blog.Coporate blogs are run by companies.Celebrities have also gotten into the act with thier fans.
Blogosphere Bloggers often tend to look at other people's blogs.When they see something they like in their favourite blogs,blogers will often link to and comment on it.All this Linking has created a phenomenon known as the Blogosphere. Blogging Services LiveJournal,Blogger,Xanga,Typepad, WordPress.com,Wordpress.org,Drupal, MovableType,Textpattern,Mambo are just few services available.
Creating Your Own Blog How to create your blogspot(blogger)blog Step by Step Creating Your Own "GOOGLE BLOG"(blogger) Blog is now easy,because there are web based tools that make the blogging easy and simple. You can create blogs for Free.The simplicity of blogging is one of the things that makes blogging so popular.Bloging tools allow you to post photos,video,audio files. 1.Go to Blogspot home page (www.blogger.com/start) 2.Click “Create Your Blog Now” button 3.Give these details User name : give your name or any name Password : Retype Password: Display name :You can give your nick name eg-:nano E-mail :Your email address eg-:nanopibia@yahoo.com Select “Acceptance of terms” by checking the box 4. Give a title to your blog eg-: Soccer,Software,Chemistry,Pets 5. Give a URL to your blog
eg-: yourblogname.blogspot.com nanopibia.blogspot.com 6.Chose a Template eg-: Scribe Now your Blog has been created
Start Posting Creat a post(write articles or comments).Save it as a Draft or You can Publish it.To publish your post click the PUBLISH Tab.Then click the "View Blog" Tab to view your blog. Edit HTML To view the source corde of your blog and To edit the source corde of your blog,Click the "TEMPLATE"tab, Then click the "Edit Curent" and then you can view HTML source corde of your blog.
Make Money from your blog You can maximize your revenue potential by displaying ads on your blog.Google AdSense is a fast and easy way for website publishers of all sizes to display relevant Google ads on their website's/blogs content pages and earn money. Blogging Tools Creating your own blog is now easy because there are blogging Toolsets that make the management of your blog simple. Blogging Software Wordpress is blogging software. You place the files on a server, connect the pipes to a MySQL database and it manages your blog from there.
Open Source Blogging Software WordPress.org WordPress is an Open Source Blogging Software that was born from b2. Hosting Blogs You have 2 options.You can host your blog in a blog site(eg :- blogger.com called as blogspot.com).You can create a custom URL for your blog, like www.yourblogname.blogspot.com. you can host it in another website. Host your blog using FTP You can chose where you want to publish your blog.(eg:- yourdomain.com)Blogger uses FTP to send the source code (HTML code)of your blog. Blogging Tricks Visit my new blogging tutorial blog, Part 2 of this tutorial.There are Tips for those who using the popular GOOGLE'S Blogger blogging service. Many of the tips are also relevant to those using other blogging services. www..com Sri Lankan Blogs Kottu.org is a website which syndicates over 100 Sri Lankan blogs.but lot of them goes to blogspot.Like, www.nittewa.blogspot.com
Sri Lankan Bloggers I think there are about 50000 Sri Lankan Bloggers.What do you think?
Sinhala Blogging There are no softwares or blogging services available for blogging in Sinhala.So we cant blog in Sinhala. I dont know how to do it in Sinhala. help! help!... Sinhala Bloggers I dont know how to blog in Sinhala. I have no choies.So I,m blogging in English.English typesetting is easy than Sinhala typesetting,So it's easy to do blogging in English. But my Mother Language is not English so it's not easy. Sri Lankan Adsense Bloggers There are nearly 50 000 Sri Lankan bloggers at the moment,writing, rantingand raving about a variety of topics.I dontknow how many of them running Adsense on their blogs.