What Is A Blog?

First of all, all you need to know clearly is what you are doing and what you want to do.

Let me introduce with some terms using in blogging.

-What Is Blog?

A blog (short for weblog) is a personal online journal that is frequently updated and intended for general public consumption. Blogs are defined by their format: a series of entries posted to a single page in reverse-chronological order.

Just look some other people say about blog.

Problogger.net said

A blog is a type of website that is usually arranged in chronological order from the most recent ‘post’ (or entry) at the top of the main page to the older entries towards the bottom.

Wiki said

A blog (a portmanteau of web log) is a website where entries are commonly displayed in reverse chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.

Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs.


Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on art (artlog), photographs (photoblog), sketchblog, videos (vlog), music (MP3 blog), audio (podcasting) are part of a wider network of social media. Micro-blogging is another type of blogging which consists of blogs with very short posts. As of December 2007, blog search engine Technorati was tracking more than 112 million blogs.

Here,Blogger.com, said

In simple terms, a blog is a web site, where you write stuff on an ongoing basis. New stuff shows up at the top, so your visitors can read what's new. Then they comment on it or link to it or email you. Or not.

Since Blogger was launched in 1999, blogs have reshaped the web.

For those who would like to find more about the definition of Blog, Blogging and Blogger, u can go and see here.



-Which blog you are using?


Normally there are many blog hosting sites. But most blogger create a blog at blogger.com and some choose wordpress.com. While wordpress can give lots of templates , blogger.com has a big community that you will be in the commnity. Many bloggers choose blogger.com as long as I see. However, I'll only discuss concerning with the blogs from blogger.com.


-Which format you are using?

At blogger.com, you are asked to started with .xml based templates which are aimed to be easily accessible by users. If you want to learn about html or you know it them well, you can do it by just clicking 'Edit Html' under 'Layout' main menu. Then you can find the link for 'Revert to Classic Template' just bel0w on left side. Their templates are rare to find. But its easier for you to start with .xml which is the original format you are given.