Blogging fun

Blogging fun

Blogging has become such an amazing phenomena online, everyone is blogging! Everywhere you look there are blogs.

From its humble beginings as just a ‘web log’ today its totally commercialised and serves as a publically displayed journal for a company, business or just individual. Anyone who authors in a blog is a blogger. Type in the term ‘blogging’ into Google it brings up 83,600,000 returns.

There are many companies out there like Blogger or Wordpress who offer ‘free blogs’ which provide a very basic template for you to post your articles. Of course these are a good way to get to understand the concept of blogging and to get the feel of what its all about, but then after that there is very little scope to broaden your horizons. You are limited to the parameters of the free version.

Catch the ‘blogging bug’ and you’ll want to fly. There are gadgets and widgets out there, all those little ‘toys’ to add to your blog to make it more atrractive and of course attract readers and comments. So next step is… a blog that you have total control of and where you can add those widgets, extra plugins etc.

To set up your own blog where you have complete control you will need a domain and hosting. Its not as complicated as it sounds, and you dont need to know html. Today’s server ready applictions like a blogging script are so easy to install and simple to use. You just follow a few simple steps of filling in your name etc and click!, its all done for you.

And now the the real fun starts, as here you now have the potential to customise your work by adding pictures, graphics, videos, podcasts, audio, widgets, advertising etc. lots of creativity, lots of blogging fun.

Zo Nicholas