Chapter 3
Blogging Basics
IN THIS CHAPTER
Getting your blog underway
Understanding domain names
Selecting a domain name
Buying a domain name
Getting to know the parts of a blog
Congratulations! You’ve committed to starting a blog, and now it is time to take a closer look at the next steps to joining the blogosphere. Launching a blog takes more than just a good idea. It’s important to understand the basic aspects of blogging from selecting a name to identifying the components of a typical blog.
This chapter teaches you everything you need to know from how to hit the ground running to the ins and outs of domains to how to identify the typical parts of a blog so that you’re completely educated and ready to get into the nitty-gritty technical part of creating your blog.
Launching Your Blog Quickly
Once you’ve got your blog topic selected, you may want to move immediately from first considering writing a blog to actually publishing and sharing content on the web. Good news! It is absolutely ...
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