Tips and Guides in Making your First Blog
Before you start something, there are some things that you need to remember. In making your first blog, there are also things that you need to follow and consider. In blogging, you are sharing other people what are your interests. Focusing on some particular topics such as web design, home staging, sports, or mobile technology. Some are more eclectic, and others are personal journals, presenting the author's daily life and thoughts. Some blogs are hobbies, personal sharing, jobs, products and advertising.
Then the next thing is "what's the best place to make or start your blog?". "What platform I should use?" To help you decide, try to read below three of the very popular and common platform in blogging, the blogger, wordpress and the tumblr. It is better to make a broad understanding on this three so that you can choose a platform that suits your taste and style.
This is the very easy and very basic platform that are using today under Google. Basing on its appearance, it's clean and the blog layout is very easy to arrange. Very suitable for all beginners. You can also edit its templates using HTML codes. (But of course, if you studied HTML coding and having knowledge about HTML there won't be any problem.) Many features gadgets that help you in maintenance and fixing.
This blog supports Google Adsense, one of the most popular and common Ads
in making money. Also they have mobile blog application which allows the creator to post and edit blogs, and also share photos and links on Blogger using their mobile devices. Because it is under Google, it is easy to share and use other Google features and products such as Google+, which is a very popular social network as of today that can help you in increasing your traffics. Not only Google+, you can also use facebook, twitter and myspace in blogger.
in making money. Also they have mobile blog application which allows the creator to post and edit blogs, and also share photos and links on Blogger using their mobile devices. Because it is under Google, it is easy to share and use other Google features and products such as Google+, which is a very popular social network as of today that can help you in increasing your traffics. Not only Google+, you can also use facebook, twitter and myspace in blogger.
Of all this features and offers of blogger, there are still its limitations such as:
- Blog description = 500 characters. HTML mark up not supported.
- Number of blogs = 100 blogs per account.
- Number of labels = 5000 unique labels per blog (increased from the original 2000), 20 unique labels per post
- Number of pictures (hyperlinked from user's Picasa Web Album) = Up to 1 GB of free storage ( As of April 2012, disk space allocated is 5 GB)
- Number of posts =There is no limit on the number of posts one can have in one blog.
- Size of pages = Individual pages (the main page of a blog or archive pages) are limited to 1 MB
- Size of pictures = If posted via Blogger Mobile, limited 300 KB per picture; posted pictures are scaled to 1600px
- Stand-Alone Pages = Limited to 20 stand-alone pages.
- Team members (those who can write to a blog) = 100 invitations per blog. (source:wikipedia)
If you think that blogger has limited choice in terms of flexibility with the look, why don't you try wordpress
This platform can be very complicated, but I think you'll be okay :). This is commonly used by some professionals. A flexible blogging solution with lots of different design and functionality options. You can control everything in your blog, can put any Ads, can edit all the files and creating a unique looking blog by yourself! Also the PHP, HTML & CSS code can also be edited. Also Plugins and widget are available that can be placed outside locations enabling even further customization. This can be displayed in header, footer and sidebar.
Wordpress can support one blog per installation, although multiple concurrent
"WordPress also features integrated link management; a search engine–friendly, clean permalink structure; the ability to assign nested, multiple categories to articles; and support for tagging of posts and articles. Automatic filters are also included, providing standardized formatting and styling of text in articles (for example, converting regular quotes to smart quotes).
WordPress also supports the Trackback and Pingback standards for displaying links to other sites that have themselves linked to a post or article."(source:wikipedia)
So, does the blogger and wordpress is now a bit familiar to you now? If yes, here's another one that you might try also.
Tumblr
A platform that focuses on pictures and videos. Just like twitter, you can follow other blogs and they can follow you back and just like facebook, liking it and sharing by reblogging. They have also different kinds of templates design, but unlike blogger and wordpress, tumbler has limited customization n theirr HTML and CSS. They have no plugins and other features.
Just like facebook, tumblr can tag each post on its followers. This way, they can shared their posts directly to the people by tagging it to them.
It is really more look like a social network than platform because links, videos and photos are very easy to share, and very less in words and writing.
Tumblr has received criticism for the ability of bloggers to violate copyright, because, there are times users posted copyrighted works from others and publishing them without further notifications to the owner.
A platform that focuses on pictures and videos. Just like twitter, you can follow other blogs and they can follow you back and just like facebook, liking it and sharing by reblogging. They have also different kinds of templates design, but unlike blogger and wordpress, tumbler has limited customization n theirr HTML and CSS. They have no plugins and other features.
Just like facebook, tumblr can tag each post on its followers. This way, they can shared their posts directly to the people by tagging it to them.
It is really more look like a social network than platform because links, videos and photos are very easy to share, and very less in words and writing.
Tumblr has received criticism for the ability of bloggers to violate copyright, because, there are times users posted copyrighted works from others and publishing them without further notifications to the owner.
That's it! The three popular and common platform that are being used by bloggers.
So, what do you think? Where do you want to start your first blog?
So, what do you think? Where do you want to start your first blog?
Remember: Blogs are harmless if you are using it in fair and wisely ways. You will find the same people in the blog membership all have related interests but there are few of them always questionable in legal nature at best. Smaller numbers are easier to verify that the blog is being used safely and legally.
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