Today I will talk about the early stages of starting a blog. On most sites, including this one, anyone wanting to write a blog must first begin by registering.
The reigestering proccess consists of a few short steps that allows the website to verify the user's information. Information such as name, address and e-mail are required. Further on, the person then must chose a screen name that he or she will use to identify themselves with on that site. This aspect is particualrly useful when a person who is writing the blog chooses to do so anonymously. This way the person does not have to reveal his or her real name. This feature is also useful when leaving comments on other people's blogs.
When starting a blog the user must also choose a name for it. This name will be present in the blog adress. For example I chose to name my blog acct108humbercollege reffering to the course I am writing this blog for. Therefore, in order to access my blog the website adress to use would be http://acct108humbercollege.blogspot.com/.
A neat feature on this site is the ability chose a pre set layout. This is useful for people who have little knowledge of computer programming language such as HTML. These preset layouts allow a person to start blogging right away simply by typing just as they would normally do in a word proccessing document or e-mail. There are easy to use features designed to facilitate this such as changing fonts, colours and inserting pictures. There is even an easy to use feature that allows a user to link over a word to take the reader to a particular spot on the web like I have done --> HERE
For those more advanced, the site allows the user to costumize these pre set layouts however they choose. This can be done by using HTML or by using the options provided to make these changes.
The registering and set up process is simple and allows anyone to create their very own blog in minutes.
Come back tomorrow where I will take a more in depth look at blogging and some history behind it.
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