What is a Blog?

A blog is basically an online journal wherein you can digitally write down your ideas, thoughts, opinions and practically anything that you want people to read. Blogs come in different styles, formats, and settings, depending on the preference of the user. Many blogging sites, offer built in features such as hyperlink, straight texts, and pictures. Some blogging sites, even allow you to put video and mp3's on your blogs.

A basic blog contains these features:

Title- which allows you to label your post
Body- this is the content of your post
Trackback- other sites can be linked back to your blog
Permanent link- every article that you write has a URL
Comments- this allows readers to post comments on your blog.

The advantage of blogging is that it is made of only a few templates. Unlike, other websites that is made up of numerous individual pages. This makes it easier for blog users to create new pages, because it already has a fix setting.

This is useful for first time users, since they can start blogging right away. They can choose from a number of templates that blogging websites provide. Atomic Blogging.