Its really quite simple,a blog is a type of website that is usually arranged in chronological order from the most recent ‘post’ (or entry) at the top of the main page to the older entries towards the bottom.
Blogs are usually (but not always) written by one person and are updated pretty regularly. Blogs are often (but not always) written on a particular topic - there are blogs on virtually any topic you can think of. From photography, to spirituality, to recipes, to personal diaries to hobbies - blogging has as many applications and varieties as you can imagine. Whole blog communities have sprung up around some of these topics putting people into contact with each other in relationships where they can learn, share ideas, make friends with and even do business with people with similar interests from around the world.
Blogs usually have a few features that are useful to know about if you want to get the most out of them as a reader. A couple of blog features are:
Entry types
- Post anything from articles to photos using a browser, email or mobile phone
- Built-in review templates (music, movies, books)
- List by most recent articles, comments and track backs posted
- List articles and photos within a category
- Option to delete one or more articles, comments or track backs
- Archive by months and years
- Rich-text editor: (How it appears to you on screen is how it will appear in your blog)
- Photo editor:
- Capture date and time
- Include caption and description
- Upload individual or zip archives of photos
- Resize photos
- Generate photo thumbnails on upload
- Keep original/raw copy of photo even after editing
- Favourite lists – create a list of your favourite links on your blog (e.g. Favourite websites, musicians, stores, bloggers, etc.)
- Restrict content category access to specific users or groups
- Control comments by allowing or disallowing anonymous comments
- Quick layout designer - single, two or three column options
- Drag and drop layout editor
- Create custom components or edit built-in components
