Blogging 101 What Is a Blog?
A blog is a special website that anyone in the world (yes, even you) can have because it's easy to set up, easy to maintain, and everything about it is free. All you need is internet access, an e-mail account, and something to say (content).
Who provides all these free tools? The blog service providers do. This blog was created on Blogger. Blogger is the blog service provider I will be talking about the most, although I will mention some of the others later. Blogger is the most popular blog service. It is owned now by Google. Google is a search engine, a very good one. What Google is interested in is content that it can search. It provides these tools to make it easy for you, for everyone in the world, to put more content on the web.
The word blog comes from the words web+log. A web log was originally a personal log or journal that was posted on the web so that it could be shared. The first blog was posted in 1994 by Swarthmore student Justin Hall. He knew how to write HTML (hyper text markup language), which is the code behind everything on the web. If you want to see what HTML looks like, right-click on any webpage (including this one) and select View Source. For a long time, you had to be able to write HTML to blog. Then someone decided to invite the rest of us to the party by creating software that takes regular text and formatting and turns it into HTML automatically, and in 1999 Blogger came online with the first popular, free blog-creation service.
A blog is a website, but it is a special website because it usually has features that most websites don't have. It has a header containing the title of the blog and a short description. It has a sidebar that contains information or links to information about the author, the author's other blogs or websites, other blogs or websites that the author reads, and advertising (more on that later). But most significantly, it has articles (called posts) with a title and date stamp that move down the page as new entries are made. A blog usually has a comments section so that readers can respond to the author. The comments section is one of the coolest features of a blog.
You may think that you've never seen a blog, but I bet you have. If you've ever been to a website that had a header, a sidebar, articles with titles and date stamps that moved down the page (or moved to an "archive" page), and a comments section, you've seen a blog.
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Who provides all these free tools? The blog service providers do. This blog was created on Blogger. Blogger is the blog service provider I will be talking about the most, although I will mention some of the others later. Blogger is the most popular blog service. It is owned now by Google. Google is a search engine, a very good one. What Google is interested in is content that it can search. It provides these tools to make it easy for you, for everyone in the world, to put more content on the web.
The word blog comes from the words web+log. A web log was originally a personal log or journal that was posted on the web so that it could be shared. The first blog was posted in 1994 by Swarthmore student Justin Hall. He knew how to write HTML (hyper text markup language), which is the code behind everything on the web. If you want to see what HTML looks like, right-click on any webpage (including this one) and select View Source. For a long time, you had to be able to write HTML to blog. Then someone decided to invite the rest of us to the party by creating software that takes regular text and formatting and turns it into HTML automatically, and in 1999 Blogger came online with the first popular, free blog-creation service.
A blog is a website, but it is a special website because it usually has features that most websites don't have. It has a header containing the title of the blog and a short description. It has a sidebar that contains information or links to information about the author, the author's other blogs or websites, other blogs or websites that the author reads, and advertising (more on that later). But most significantly, it has articles (called posts) with a title and date stamp that move down the page as new entries are made. A blog usually has a comments section so that readers can respond to the author. The comments section is one of the coolest features of a blog.
You may think that you've never seen a blog, but I bet you have. If you've ever been to a website that had a header, a sidebar, articles with titles and date stamps that moved down the page (or moved to an "archive" page), and a comments section, you've seen a blog.
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