Chapter 2. Blog Site
In This Chapter
Knowing how blogs work
Adopting the b2evolution blog application
Running multiple blogs with WordPress
Using a blog hosting service
Incorporating a blog with an existing site
A blog, for those of you who have been couch potatoes instead of Net potatoes, is short for weblog. A blog is like an online diary. You post your thoughts, photos, or information of interest to your viewing audience and collect comments from people who read your blog. Kids use blogs, and so do politicians. Blogs come in many different varieties. There's the vanity blog, which is a blog that's put up by someone who absolutely thinks it's the coolest thing since wireless pointing devices but fills the blog with vacuous text, and there's the serious blog, which is put up by someone who has important information to convey to his Web site visitors. In this chapter, we explore two pieces of blog software and explore a blog that was added to a Web site.
Examining Blog Software and Services
If you type blog software into your favorite search engine, you get pages of results to explore. Many of the most popular blogs are free.
Before actually showing you some blogs, we tell you a bit about how they work. When you add a blog to your Web site, you're adding PHP pages to your Web site. The pages enable you to display your blog online and accept comments from visitors to your blog. You post entries to your blog from the administration pages. From the administration pages, you can also delete ...
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