Blogging.

A blog is a discussion or the informal website published on the world wide web consisting of discrete, often informal diary style text entries.

Why should you create a blog.

Blogging has become one of the most popular ways of communicating and spreading information and news.

It’s a great way to express yourself

A fantastic way to share information with others

A place to make you a better person and a better writer

The best of all you can make money by doing a blog $$$$

4 Simple steps to start a blog

Step 1 Choose a blogging platform
Step 2 Choose a web host for your blog
Step 3 Design your blog
Step 4 Useful resources for blogging

Examples of blog

resources: https://cdn.makeawebsitehub.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/theadventureblog-1024x517.jpg

resources: https://cdn.makeawebsitehub.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/sidehustlenation-1024x556.jpg

resources: http://bmspm.net/fokusb86.jpg

Step 1

Choosing where you want to build blog is pretty much the first thing to do. Most people keep on saying that wordpress is the best place for blogging but let us go to the next best which is Blogger. We still have Tumblr incase if anyone is finding for half social network and half blog. Its quite interesting and very simple to use.

resources: www.pingdom.com

Step 2

 Well here comes the biggest decision to be made by yourself today. Start to decide whether you want to pay for your blog or grab a free one. ( I’ll recommend the free one)

Free things have the negative side but im sure you wont mind unless you are trying to start a business blog.

1)       Some of the downsides are you wont be able to get your own domain name.

Yourblog.wordpress.com

Yourblog.blogspot.com

Yourblog.tumblr.com

Yeah its ugly right?  But I guess its ok cause after all its free.

2)       limits

Free things does come with limit. What else you expect? Its free. You cant full monetize it, and you don’t have the possibility to upload all those videos and images you want to show everyone. If you are using wordpress you wont even have access to the free themes offered by it.

There are plenty more to talk about but lets just continue with the steps.

Step 3

Now you can make your blog exactly how you want to. Choose a theme for your blog and try to make it look professional and pretty easy to customize. Remember, your blog’s design should reflect both you and your personality, and also what blog its about. There is no point having a basketball orientated theme if your blog is about football, understand?

It should also be easy for people to navigate if you want people to stay. If you are just doing because your teacher ask you to then you can do it however you wish but ill still recommend you to do it as I say. ( you don’t want to lose your marks now, do you?) nobody likes ugly websites, and people especially hate websites that need a university degree to navigate it. Come on. Make it easy for them.

resource:http://www.bloggingtips.com/blogger/butterfly-blogger-theme/

Step 4

We’ve all made more than a few newbie mistakes even though bloggers come to blogging arena with varying degrees of online and social media experience. Well cool down cause there’s always room for more learning and improvement, whether you’re a beginner or you’ve been blogging for years. so below are some sites to help you:

https://www.bloggingbasics101.com/5-mistake-to-avoid-when-starting-a-new-blog/

https://www.bloggingbasics101.com/choosing-a-blogging-niche/

https://www.bloggingbasics101.com/web-hosting-for-dummies/

https://www.bloggingbasics101.com/7-ways-to-boost-your-success-as-a-blogger/