How to write a blog

The most effective way to share your thoughts and opinion is to create your own weblog. 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.

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 a large supporting community. You will be able to find free themes for your blog and customize it the way you like.

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:
1.Blogger
2.Instablogs
3.Wordpress

Blogs are also easier to setup than websites, and because of this reason people are often lured into thinking blogs are a better option than websites.

So please don't go into this thinking that creating a blog is an easier way to make money online. Even bloggers making a lot of money have put in their share of time and effort.

Blogs are of two types:

1)Remotely Hosted

There are two ways to host a blog. The first way is to remotely host it-- which means your content literally sit on the server of the blogging platform (WordPress.com, Blogger.com, etc.)

There's always a risk involved with doing it this way because if Blogger or WordPress decide to shut your blog down (for whatever reason), you would lose all your content.

It also doesn't look as professional to have a blog address like http://yourblog.blogspot.com or http://yourblog.wordpress.com. And if you want to make money, first impressions mean a lot.

2)Self Hosted

With a self hosted blog, all your content sits on the hosting account that you own. Your blog address is more professional and easy to remember because you can have a true domain like http://yourblog.com.