How to Create a Blog & Site

Nowadays the most effective way to share your thoughts and opinion is to create your own weblog a.k.a blog. But how to start your own blog? Fortunately, starting a blog site is an easy task.

• You do not need to know anything about web development to start blogging: you can create and manage your blog site using some of the free blog tools that are available;
• All you need to do is open a hosting account where you can have a blog application installed and activated. At SiteGround we offer FREE blog installation with our blog hosting package and you can start your site right away.

Advantages of using a ready-made blog tool

• The blog application has many built-in functionalities such as posting articles, HTML editor, commenting, archive, menus, themes management, etc.
• The most popular blog tools have large supporting communities. You will be able to find free themes for your blog and customize it the way you like.

Which blog application to use?

With the help of a blog application you needn't be a web designer or developer to share your thoughts with the world. In the following pages you will find brief instructions on how to build your own blog by using some of the most popular blog applications: 

• Learn how to create a blog with WordPress;
• Learn how to build a community website with BuddyPress plugin for WP;
• Find out how to create a blog with Drupal;
• Find out more about the Pixelpost photo blog system;

Define: blog

There are different descriptions of that concept. According to most of the articles in Internet 'blog' is short for 'weblog', a frequently updated publication of comments and thoughts on the web. Usually it is reflecting the views of the blog's creator. Blogs consist of text and images and are sorted by date. The newest information is on the top and there is an archive of the old one. People create blogs to share their thoughts with the world. A person writing in the journal is called a 'blogger'. Bloggers write about different topics: from the typical daily situations to the progress of some scientific researches. The readers also can leave comments and thus make the whole blog more interesting and useful.

History of the blog

Blogs are part of the World Wide Web since its creation. In the beginning they did not have a defined name, but their purpose was more or less the same as that of contemporary blogs. Here is a list of the first blogs:

• Dawn of Internet: Tim Berners-Lee at CERN begins keeping a list of all new sites as they come online.
• June 1993: NCSA's oldest archived 'What's New' list of sites.
• June 1993: Netscape begins running it's 'What's New!' list of sites.
• January 1994: Justin Hall launches Justin's Home Page which would become Links from the Underground.
• April 1997: Dave Winer launches Scripting News.
• December 1997: Jorn Barger coins the term 'weblog''.

How do I start?

To start your own blog site, you need to sign up for a blog hosting package. SiteGround has long experience hosting blog applications, such as WordPress. Our servers are perfectly optimized for blogs. We offer FREE blog installation and immediate activation of your blog hosting account.