Starting Your Own Blog

It has been almost a decade since the concept of weblogs or blogs had been introduced. Allowing web users or bloggers to publish content and arrange it on the basis of time, blogs have turned out to be the easiest way to have one’s mark on the web. Today, a simple internet search on any topic would return numerous results most of which are guaranteed to come from millions of blogs spread across the World Wide Web. Simple to use, a blog contains almost all the necessary tools that allow a user to publish his/her content on the web. Tools like rich text editor, spell check, image insert, video insert, HTML markup editing facility etc. are provided by blogs so that users do not have to care about the ‘How’ of writing blogs but would rather concentrate on the ‘What’ of writing blogs.

The concept of web publishing has really picked up with blogs. Wannabe writers and poets can create their own blogs and showcase their talent to the general public. By creating a fan following of internet surfers who would follow a blog, bloggers do not only get the opportunity to receive genuine feedback from the readers, they will also know it their content is generating interest among blog visitors or not. There have been many instances in the past where professional bloggers have been able to bag book writing contracts from publishing houses and have written bestsellers.

If you, too, are an aspiring writer or want to have your own blog just for the fun of it, you can easily create your own blog and get going with publishing content on your blog. There are two major ways by which you can create a blog on the internet. These are:

• By opting for a free blog from free blogging platform like Blogger or WordPress, and publishing blog instantly.
• By creating a self hosted server and deploying a blog on it by installing a blog script or creating a fully customized blog from start.

Let us look at the steps for creating a free as well as a self hosted blog.

For a Free blog website

If you have opted for a free blogging platform, you have many choices but sticking to the popular ones is always the best option. There are various websites that allow a blogger to create a blog and provides them with a sub domain for e.g. myblog.blogger.com. After a simple registration in such websites, users will be able to create more than one blog from a single account itself. Not only user friendly, these blogs can be added with additional features and tools very easily.

For Creating a self Hosted Account

If you have chosen to go for a self hosted solution, you will require some professional expertise to do so. For doing so, users can either opt for a script that needs to be installed on a server or create a solution that fulfills the needs of a user. If you want to host your own blog, you can easily search for a solution on the internet with the help of search engines.