A Blog Is A Kind Of Website

• A blog is a type of website. It often has a registered domain name associated with it, and is often hosted at a paid-for web hosting service. A quick and overly simplistic definition of hosting, is that web hosting means where all the various files and gizmos that make up the blog or website are found on the Internet.
• A blog or website needs to hosted somewhere. Blogs can be hosted for free at places like wordpress.com or blogger.com. These hosted-free blogs can have registered domain names associated with them, but free-hosted blogs have limitations. Serious bloggers should strongly consider having their blog professionally setup with paid-for hosting and certainly using a registered domain name appropriate for the blog. It’s best to Own Your Own Blog and Have Your Own Unique Domain Name.
• A blog is a powerful and flexible way to publish information on the Internet, for just about any purpose you can imagine.

WordPress Is A Very Popular And Powerful Blog Platform

The word “blog” is created from “web log.” In its truest form, a blog is an online chronicle, account, journal, or diary. These days, a competent blog developer using a blogging platform such as WordPress can make a blog do just about anything that is desired by a website owner. WordPress is a blogging platform. WordPress is an Open Source blogging/Content Management System platform used for both blogs or standard websites, or a combination of both. WordPress is an established success. WordPress can be a blog only, it can be a traditional website with only web pages and no blog posts, or it can be a website with a blog. WordPress is very flexible. WordPress Works Wonderfully!

Use WordPress To Power Your Website

JonathanRAllenWebDesign.com is Proudly Powered by WordPress. This website is powered by the WordPress blogging platform. I have it set up so that it has static web pages appearing as the website’s front-end, and the dynamic blog part of my website is the back-end. This is a common way to use WordPress for a website and it offers much flexibility and customization. I can change and add to the content displayed on my blog as I desire, and the static pages of my website can easily be changed or added with WordPress.

A Blog Is A Powerful And Flexible Way To Publish Information

A blog is made up of content that is published chronologically (the newest content appears at the top of the blog) in the form of entries called “posts.” You are reading a blog post right now. Posts are saved in the blog, you can page backwards (travel back in posts time) through a blog and view all of the posts previously published. Blog “archives” are a special way to view older posts.

A blog can also be customized and configured so that it appears and behaves just like a regular website made up of individual pages linked to one another in various relationships. The blogging platform (or engine), that powers a blog can add this website-like functionality to a blog. For example, the WordPress blog engine is very good for configuring a blog to act like a common website … only with lots more flexibility, options, features, and power!

A Blog Is A Path Of Communication

A blog can be published by just one person, which is probably the way most blogs make their way to the Internet, or by a team of people who create the content and information appearing on the blog. Businesses often use the team approach to blogging.

Blogging is the process of writing the content (Words, images, and video are examples of content.) that make up the information in the blog posts. I was blogging as I wrote this post, then I clicked a button and published the post to this blog so you can read what I have to say.

Each post to a blog will have its own unique and permanent URL (Uniform Resource Locator) that someone can type into a browser address input box (or save as a bookmark in their browser) to arrive at that particular post in a blog. The author of the post, the post’s date, and categories (categories are ways to classify posts) the post belongs to, are usually included as parts of each post.

Readers of blog posts are often able to add their comments about the posts, to the posts. The reader comments and the post author’s responses, are usually included or available to be read as part of the blog posts. Discussion and communication are inherent fundamentals of a blog.

RSS Or Syndication

A neat feature of a blog is that you can “subscribe” to the blog. This is done through RSS or syndication. What these fancy terms mean is that readers of a blog can use a special link that is part of the blog’s features, to view the content of the blog away from the actual blog.

A reader of your blog can keep track of what’s going on with your blog by subscribing to your blog (using the special subscriber link of the blog) with what is called a “reader” service.

Blog subscriptions and readers comes in very handy if you have a number of blogs you like to follow. Instead of having to visit each blog separately to see what’s new, all you have to do is go to your reader service. The blog reader service collects all of the new posts from all of the blogs you like to read in one place where you can view the content of the posts, or click on through to the various blogs. This makes it convenient to keep in touch with what’s going on in your favorite blogs in just one place.