Blogging step by Step

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.