Blog is a contracted form of weblog. In short, it has many uses and is most commonly described as a website that offers commentary, descriptions of events, graphics, or video. A blog is maintained by individuals and the information is generally displayed in reverse chronological order.
There are many types of blogs:
Personal: This type of blog is a journal of sorts, where an individual writes entries about his or her day in a sentimental manner. Few personal blogs become famous, although it is a fast and easy way to keep in touch with friends and family who you are unable to see on a daily basis.
Corporate: This type of blog is most commonly used by a business for marketing, branding, or public relations. The Lancer Letter falls under the categorization of corporate blog because it is used for the purpose of public relations with our parents and community members.
Question Blogging: A qlog answers questions that are submitted via an online form of some type, an email, or a VIOP telephone call.
A media blog: A blog that contains videos is called a vlog, one containing links is called a linklog, blogs containing photos are called photoblogs, shorter blogs with mixed media types are called tumbleblogs, and those written with typewriters, scanned in and posted are called typecasts.
A device blog: Blogs written with different devices have different classifications, as well. A blog written via mobile phone is called a moblog.
Genre blog: Blogs can focus on particular subjects, such as politics, travel, fashion, projects, education, niche, classical music, dreamlogs, art, music, or spamming (called a splog).
Source: Wikipedia.com
Blogger.com: Undisclosed amount of space to publish your blog. Owned by Google, Blogger.com combines with your Google account to enable you to publish photos and videos seemlessly. Each Google account has 1024 MB of space for file storage. You are able to purchase additional space (10 GB for $20/year up to 400 GB for $500/year). Setup and customization are fairly simple for Blogger and it allows you in incorporate Google's AdSense to help you earn money if you choose to do so with your blog, as well as Analytics to track who is viewing your blog. All of Bloggers features are free to use with no fees added on.
Wordpress.com: WordPress allows 3 GB of storage for your blog and all files associated with it for free. You are able to purchase additional space (5 GB for $20/year, up to 25 GB for $90/year). Setup is relatively easy, as is personalization with templates. You cannot, however, edit any templates with a free account so you are limited with that. The customizable CSS upgrade is an additional $15/year. Because Google owns Blogger, AdSense is not able to be used with WordPress, but it has built in blog stats to help you track who is viewing your blog.
There are other free blogging websites, but the listed two have been reviewed by many and are deemed the most popular, offering the most features, with little-to-know out-of-pocket cost for additional features. If you know of any other websites, please feel free to provide a link to it in the comments.
Stay tuned for next week's article on Blog Widgets!
Are you interested in starting your own blog but don't know where to begin? Here are a few different free blog hosting sites and their benefits:
Blogger.com: Undisclosed amount of space to publish your blog. Owned by Google, Blogger.com combines with your Google account to enable you to publish photos and videos seemlessly. Each Google account has 1024 MB of space for file storage. You are able to purchase additional space (10 GB for $20/year up to 400 GB for $500/year). Setup and customization are fairly simple for Blogger and it allows you in incorporate Google's AdSense to help you earn money if you choose to do so with your blog, as well as Analytics to track who is viewing your blog. All of Bloggers features are free to use with no fees added on.
Wordpress.com: WordPress allows 3 GB of storage for your blog and all files associated with it for free. You are able to purchase additional space (5 GB for $20/year, up to 25 GB for $90/year). Setup is relatively easy, as is personalization with templates. You cannot, however, edit any templates with a free account so you are limited with that. The customizable CSS upgrade is an additional $15/year. Because Google owns Blogger, AdSense is not able to be used with WordPress, but it has built in blog stats to help you track who is viewing your blog.
There are other free blogging websites, but the listed two have been reviewed by many and are deemed the most popular, offering the most features, with little-to-know out-of-pocket cost for additional features. If you know of any other websites, please feel free to provide a link to it in the comments.
Stay tuned for next week's article on Blog Widgets!
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