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Blog Definition

Mimi — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:59:45 +0000

A blog is an online journal driven by a script and a database. The blog script provides you with an online dashboard for typing in your journal entries and the database stores your words. Blog can be an online journal. It can be your web based diary. It can be your monthly web article archive or weekly newsletter repository. A blog can include whatever you would like it to include: words, sound, video, pictures, etc. It can be very personal or it can be quite businesslike. The odd little word is used in a variety of ways.

I blogged today – means that you posted to your web log.
Im blogging – could mean that you’re actively working on a blog post or that you blog on a regular basis.
Im a blogger – may be used to let someone else know that you run a blog.

Why a Blog different from a regular website ?

A regular website is referring to a static HTML site, it is the database driven content that really sets it apart. There are many websites that have been built using a similar script/database (known as a Content Management System or CMS) and these sites have a lot in common with the blog since a blog script is essentially a CMS. The lines between blogs and other types of websites are blurring as more business owners choose to build their site with a CMS. While abounding blogs are advised to attending like a web journal, added and added are getting advised to attending like a approved website.

Because the agreeable you access into the blog is stored in a database, it can be broadcast as a abstracts feed. RSS is the feed that most blogs employ. (RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication.) With RSS, your content can be viewed through any RSS reader or aggregator on another website or on a computer or portable device. Addition account to getting database apprenticed is that the Software can acquire and affectation comments on specific posts and can ascertain if added sites hotlink to one of your blog posts.

What a Blog platform should I use?

There are several blog scripts available for use, including:

Blogger – Free to use, can have a blog on their site or publish the content to your own hosting account.
Wordpress – Free to use, can have a blog on their site or grab the open source wordpress script for use on your own hosting account.
Typepad – Paid service
Squarespace – Paid service

There are bloggers using every type of blog script who swear by their tool of choice and list off great features that keep them loyal. So your own choice will be a personal one. For a business blog, a common choice is Wordpress. Wordpress is feature rich. It is an Open Source script. This means that anyone can take the source code and edit it. A community of creative and talented people are constantly improving the code and releasing updates for free use. Wordpress is flexible. It works with a variety of plugins which are like hacks for the base code of the scrip. When uploaded and activated, they make the blog script work differently.

What should my Blog look like?

The look of a blog is determined by its theme. A theme is a set of page templates and a CSS style sheet. Together the templates and the style sheet tell the database how to display its data. This is what makes a blog so darn cool. At any time you can change the whole look of your website by simply changing the theme and there are hundreds of free themes and many paid themes available to choose from. The first customization task you can undertake is to have a custom header graphic created for the top of your blog. Some blogs dont use graphics at all, but youll probably want to carry your logo/brand over to your blog and the header is a good place to do it. Most important a blog must have:

About Me page with background info about you.
Links to your favorite blogs.
A link to your RSS feed with instructions on how to use it.
Mailing list sign up forum.
Links that let readers submit you to Social Bookmarking sites.
Widgets/Gadgets that promote Web 2.0 Social Network sites you belong to.

10 Reasons to Use WordPress

Don — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 02:12:56 +0000

Wordpress is the best for me as cms. You can setup your blog like magazine style, ecommerce, photoblog or portfolio. But some people suggest to use Drupal. For me wordpress still in my heart. Because…

Its free. As it is licensed under the GPL, it is free to download and use on all your domains.
5 minute install. Designed to be installed on your own web server, or shared hosting account, which gives you complete control over the website.
Online editing and administration of your website. Edit from anywhere via your web browser – no need to mess with Dreamweaver or CuteFTP.
Automatic Blog and Ping publicise your work to the widest audience.
Powerful themes editor. Make sitewide changes with just a few clicks of your mouse. Furthermore unlike thirdparty hosted services, you can be sure of being able to access and modify everything related to your weblog, in case you need to.
Automatic menu, archives and search features all built in.
Discussion, comments, RSS, blogroll and links automation – make your site sticky and encourage participation and repeat visits
You can get many free plugin
You can get many theme free
Nice support from wordpress forum

Wordpress login style 2.0

Don — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 20:24:46 +0000

Wordpress login style based on web 2.0 colour. Come with nine colour green, orange, light blue, red, pink, darkgreen, yellow, grey and pink glass. How to switch this style? Simple.. you just replace this style images into your web server /wp-admin/images. Done !

Link: DOWNLOAD

Wordpress plugin : Yahoo Shortcuts

Don — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:58:56 +0000

Yahoo! Shortcuts for Wordpress plugins intelligently enriches your Wordpress blog with a lot of content for Yahoo! finance, beyond and Maps. Checkout this cool video here about yahoo shortcut and how this plugin work. You can download this plugin here.

Wordpress theme submitter

Don — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:02:38 +0000

Wordpress is blogging system where you can make your own blog. Btw here are some list and the best place where you can submit or choose your favourite wordpress themes after you finish installation with your own wordpress blog.

Upgrading wordpress

Don — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 04:16:29 +0000

1) Backup all database before you upgrading your wordpress. You can use phpMyAdmin or wordpress backup plugin.

2) Download new version wordpress and unzip. Upload to your web server and overwrite old file.

3) Beware, dont forget to change same detail about your wordpress database, user and password into wp-congfig.php.

4) Run wordpress upgrading like http://yourdomain.com/blog/wp-admin/upgrade.php. Follow the instruction what you see there. Finish and enjoy with new wordpress version. Happy blogging.

Wordpress Installation Guide

Don — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 03:30:00 +0000

1) First, you must have your own domain and hosting to install wordpress. Download wordpress and unzip.

2) Create database name, user and password on web server. Change/rename wp-config-sample.php wordpress file to wp-config.php and fill database details.

3) Upload all wordpress file to your web server folder like http://yourdomain.com/blog/. You can use ftp software like cuteftp or filezilla to upload wordpress script on web server.

4) Run wordpress installation like this http://yourdomain.com/blog/wp-admin/install.php and follow the step what you see there.

5) If you want to upload image to your wordpress, dont forget to cmod your wp-content to 777.

Secret Button For Wordpress

Don — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 02:33:52 +0000

Do you know how to see secret button on wordpress 2.1 or wordpress 2.31? If you use Firefox just press alt-shift-v and if you use IE just press alt-v. Before you use this button, confirm that you already active your “Use the visual editor when writing” in user–>Your Profile.