Blogging: Types of Blogging Platforms
by Ainuddin Mohamad

There are basically three types of blogging, each with its own uses and advantages. Whether you want to blog for fun or for money making purposes, there’s a blog suitable for you.

Blogging is a way for people to express opinions and write a certain topics that can be read by a multitude of internet users. People blog for various reasons, they blog to have fun, make friends, to make extra money, seek attention and more.

Some people even create a blog much like a personal journal that will include their everyday activities. Blogs are often updated by the blogger. Most blogs are now being used to make extra money; they often affiliate with other companies that are relevant to the topic in their blog.

Blogs is also a great way to interact with people. It enables you to meet people who have the same interest as you and lets you discuss about it.

Sometimes people who create blogs make money by asking their loyal readers for donations. This may seem ridiculous but many people become so interested with the blogs that they become a fan of it.

The blog creator then asks their loyal readers for money to maintain their website. It can be a source of income. Another way to make money is to sell products. Often, loyal readers will make t-shirt designs that have a kind of blog website logo to sell them to their loyal readers.

Blogging created one of the most common questions about it. What are the different types of blogging.

There are basically three types of blogging, each with its own uses and advantages. Whether you want to blog for fun or for money making purposes, there’s a blog suitable for you.

Hosting weblog providers is a type of blogging platform where the blogger has to simply sign up and setup a blog account. To start blogging, you don’t need any special software to download and install in your computer. All you have to do is sign up and start blogging. Signing up is easy, its just a matter of having to fill out the required information about you and you can start blogging.

This type of blogging is one of the easiest and simplest ways to start blogging. Blogging this way is suitable for people who doesn’t know how to blog or are beginners in the world of blogging.

To set up your account, you first need to visit the blog providers’ website, sign up for a new account, and customize your blog page. Customizing in a blog provider’s page is easy; they usually have a step by step instruction to help you design your blog page. It will require you to choose templates, colors, themes, font, blog style and more.

This type of blogging platform is perfect for people who don’t have knowledge about programming like HTML or CSS, and other website technical programs.

Stand-alone blog software is another type of blogging platform. This type of platform requires the blogger to download and install a software to their computer. They can either acquire the software in the internet for free or with a minimal fee.

This way, you have more control of your blog designs and it also has a wide variety of themes which you can apply in your blog webpage. You just have to have a web host on where you can post your blog.

This type of blogging platform is beneficial for users who want to have more freedom in customizing their blogs. You also have the choice of adding functions and design templates for your blog page. If you plan on choosing this platform, you should be knowledgeable about the technical matters to make it work or you should know someone that can help you with the technical matters.

The third type of blogging platform is the remote blogging system. With this platform, bloggers have the option to host the blog system in the integrated blog host or by using your own domain.

When you use remote blogging system platform, the set up guideline is like that of the blog host provider, if the user wants their blog hosted by other websites. If he or she wants to have his or her own domain, the blogger should provide the FTP details to the remote web blog system, the details usually includes FTP address, FTP account user name and password.

This type of platform is recommended for users who have advanced knowledge about blogging and internet technical matters.

About the Author:

Ainuddin Mohamad is the Webmaster of http://www.BestWebsites.com.my which is a Directory of Best websites. Since 1998 BestWebsites.com.my has featured thousands of best websites in many categories of interest with descriptions/reviews given by leading publications and webmasters.

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