Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Blog 411: Intro to Computers Project

What is a Blog?

A blog (all so known as a Weblog) is a modern day diary where people can express thoughts, found research, latest fashion tips or anything they feel to write about. It is then published on the World Wide Web. Blogsites also allow the blogger to post photos for visuals and links to other websites for further information on the topic. Blogging can also be very interactive as readers can post comments agreeing, disagreeing or simply complementing the bloggers post.

Bloggers may love that they can show his/her creativity by building unique layout themes for their blog. However, there are many sites that have template themes for those who want an attractive appeal but don’t know how to create the layout theme themselves.

How is a Blog created & How Does it Work ?

There are millions of sites to create blogs, however www.blogger.com is one of the most common ones. Creating a blog requires basic information (First/last name, date of birth, username and password) and an active e-mail address. After signing up profile information is needed. This specifies what topic you will be blogging about, if it’s a company the details for the company and whether the blog is open to the public or locked. After all the fine-tuning is done (making it look attractive etc.) you are able to update posts. Pressing on the New Post section is one way to updating new entries, it will then take you to a writing field where you can make items bold, change colors of text and fill in all information that going to be posted. Blogger.com allows you to view how your post would look before you complete the final post.

Who blogs & Why?

Every and any one can blog, right up to employers and employees of big companies (of course access to the internet would be need to blog). Some blogs are family oriented, they can either be geared to providing family type information or geared to a specify family with posts of family events and pictures. While others can give step-by-step guide on how to do certain thing (fashion styles, fixing things in the house or replacing parts on the car). Users of blogs are also well known companies like Microsoft, this company blogs on computer advise and technical know-hows. This provides Microsoft’s clientele with on hand reference to question they may have about Microsoft products.

How can you protect your Blog?

Depending on whether your blog is personal or public blogsite protecting your blogged information is possible. Bloggers can protect the entire site with a password or each individual post. For the persons you want to read the post, give them the password for that post, they type it in on their end and they will have access to see your post information.

How do you find other Blogs?

Find blogs are easy; it can either be done on www.blogger.com by viewing the blog list or searching a specific topic. Also a blog search can be do through www.google.com by typing in the “topic” followed by the word “blog”. There can be million on the topic you choose so browsing the different option to see the best blog site may be the best idea instead of picking the first one you see.