Blog Tutorial
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People feel the need to share their thoughts and opinion with other people. Nowadays the most effective way to do that is to create your own weblog or, as it is most popular - blog. But how to start your own blog? Fortunately, starting a blog site is a really easy task.

All you need to do is open a hosting account where you can have a blog application installed and activated. Here at SiteGround we offer FREE blog installation with our blog hosting package. You can start creating your site right away.

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 two of the most popular blog applications:

There are different descriptions of that concept. According to most of the articles on the 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.

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:

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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.

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In WordPress there is a way to import posts and comments from a Blogger account. First you should make an account in Blogger at the following location:Blo g g e r. c o m. The creation of a new account is pretty easy. All you have to do is to click on the orange arrow with title "Create your blog now" and follow the instructions. Once you are ready and you have a post there, you can import it in your WordPress site. There are some simple steps, that you should complete:

pages - from simple web blogs to large online communities. Drupal includes features to enable content management systems, blogs, forums, newsletters, picture galleries, and more. Here we will explain the use of Drupal as a blog application.