Give voice to your thoughts and ideas. Build blogs and be heard by millions across the globe. Unlike the print and other medium of expression, weblogs are more flexible, fast and easy.

If you don’t have a blog then you are surely missing out the sheer excitement of blogging. So, if you are in hunt to build one for yourself that is really good news.

Well, it is very much likely that you hardly know about blogs and the process of blogging. Here, we will make your task easy.

What is weblog?

Blog or Weblog is a special kind of website. The difference between blogs and general websites is that blogs generally consist of single pages and is mainly in text form.

In a weblog, new information is updated regularly and organized by date and submission. The topic of posts ranges from politics to religion to fashion. Whenever new entries are added, the old posts are archived while the existing ones shift down.

Types of Blogs

There are mainly two types of blogs:

• Personal Blogs are mainly online diaries or commentaries of an individual blogger.
• Corporate Blogs are used by business companies to build internal communication and culture as well as externally for marketing and public relations.

Parts of a weblog

The different sections in a weblog are mentioned below:

• The blog title consist of the name of the weblog
• The blog description is the description of your weblog
• The date when posts are uploaded in the blog is the entry date
• The title for the post is the entry title
• The body content consist of text, images, videos and links
• The time stamp is the time a post had been uploaded and links to other individual post in the weblog
• Author’s name is entered in many author’s blog
• The comments section gives a freedom to blog readers to leave comments about the post
• The archive section consist of links to past entries in the weblog
• Other links section consist of list of other bloggers i.e., the blog roll
• At times, there are also sections for ads
• Often, categories are created to help readers navigate various topics in the weblog

Making your own weblog

Now, if you are set to start a blog then you must have a detailed plan. The kind of blog you want and what would you like to communicate to your readers. There are various free blogging software’s, which aid in creating blogs in a few minutes.

There are many blog websites, which allows visitors to build an account and make a blog space on the web. Blogger.com, WordPress.com, Livejournal.com are instances of websites, which provide free hosting and updating of weblogs. Create your blog and set your foot in the world of blogging.