"A website that displays in chronological order the postings by one or more individuals and usually has links to comments on specific postings. "(Answers.com)

Most blogs have 2 or 3 columns with entries. Usually the column in the middle has all the posts done in chronological order. The columns on the side will more likely have Archive of past entries and other one with ads (if ad supported ) and or more info about the author , a search bar and links related to the blog's topic.

Blogs are simple websites used to share info using words, audio, video and or pictures. Most bloggers are people sharing knowledge on the specific blog topic. A weblog will use word to do descriptions and any topic. An audioblog will use, well, audio to share information in form of podcast. Photologs use pictures with descriptions that users share with mostly friends. Vblogs or videoblogs use videos and are not really popular. Although Vblogs are not very popular people still use them for various purposes. Check out this link that can teach you how to creat a Vblog and good reasons to use it.

There's no need to know how to write in html or any other language to create your own blog. Most layouts are already created (written ) for you and is fairly simple to customize. There's tons of info on how to customize layouts on the internet. If you have an interesting topic that you would like to share, start blogging.

• Dec 1997: Jorn Barger coins the term web log. *

• October 1998: The first personal blog website that including the reader's comment feature--Open Diary.

• Early 1999: Peter Merholz coins the term blog after announcing he was going to pronouce web blogs as "wee-blog". This was then shortened to blog. *

• February 2, 2002: Xanga came out with the first moble blog webcam ever made.

• December 25, 2003: Createblog (layout & code site for blogs) launched

• In January 2005, Fortune magazine listed eight bloggers that business people "could not ignore": Peter Rojas, Xeni Jardin, Ben Trott, Mena Trott, Jonathan Schwartz, Jason Goldman, Robert Scoble, and Jason Calacanis Source, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_blogging_timeline

• In 2007, Tim O'Reilly proposed a Blogger's Code of Conduct. Source, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_blogging_timeline

Vblogs, photologs, and more types.


A popular photo log site.












How to's, services, videos, and more.

Here are some of the most popular providers for blogs.


Since these blog sites are different, they might be different to customize.
Blogger is the easiest to customize; Due to its popularity, more templates and widgets have been created.
Follow the Blogger channel on Youtube for videos on how to use it.


*From Blog history: A timeline of blogging.

You can also view and discuss your classmates blogs.

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