What is a BLOG ? It's Definition, Description And Features.

To understand ‘what is blog’, Let’s view some definitions from other sources on internet. After that we will discuss in detail.

‘A blog is a website in which items are posted on a regular basis and displayed in reverse chronological order. The term blog is a shortened form of weblog or web log. Authoring a blog, maintaining a blog or adding an article to an existing blog is called “blogging”. Individual articles on a blog are called “blog posts,” “posts” or “entries”. A person who posts these entries is called a “blogger”. A blog comprises text, hypertext, images, and links (to other web pages and to video, audio and other files). Blogs use a conversational style of documentation. Often blogs focus on a particular “area of interest”, such as Washington, D.C.’s political goings-on. Some blogs discuss personal experiences.’ Source.

‘A blog is basically a journal that is available on the web. The activity of updating a blog is “blogging” and someone who keeps a blog is a “blogger.” Blogs are typically updated daily using software that allows people with little or no technical background to update and maintain the blog. Postings on a blog are almost always arranged in cronological order with the most recent additions featured most prominantly.’ Source

‘From “Web log.” A blog is basically a journal that is available on the web. The activity of updating a blog is “blogging” and someone who keeps a blog is a “blogger.”‘ Source

Simple Definition-  A blog is a type of website updated on a regular basis.

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.

Now I am going to explain you some important terms or you can say features about BLOGS.

Blogs have many terms such as Favicon, Template, blog title, Blog post, Archives, Body, Sidebar, Header, Footer, Gadgets, Comments etc.

FAVICON – A small picture or logo representing blog in the address bar of browser.

TEMPLATE- Template is defined as a type of design which determines a blog looks. It comes in full customized form, includes wallpaper, backgrounds, different fonts, gadgets etc. we can still customize it to look how we want.

BLOG TITLE – Blog title is simply defined as the name of one’s blog. You  can customize it and give it the effect what you want, that suits your blog theme.

BLOG POST-  Blog post is defined as the entry of some photo, video, song or article you published in your blog. (ex- the whole article is known as a single blog post.)

ARCHIVE- If you visit a older blog, you are only going to see some recent entries that have been made by the blogger, this doesn’t means that the blog you are visiting only contains that much. All the older    entries of that blog are under that site under a folder named as ‘ARCHIVE’. Blogs have options for readers to surf older entries through archive.

BODY- Body of a blog is defined as the central part of a blog where blog post or recent entries appears.

SIDEBAR- Sidebar is defined as the wide border on one or both side of a blog where generally gadgets or advertisements were placed.

HEADER- Generally Header is defined as the topmost part of a blog which contains Blog Title, it’s description etc.

FOOTER – Footer is defined as the bottommost part of a blog where generally copyright description, sitemaps and sometimes some gadgets also appears.

GADGETS- Gadgets are simply defined as applications which bloggers use for many purposes such as for social connectivity, pageviews, sharing, searchbox, enabling HTML or JAVASCRIPT on web pages, customizations and much more. There are lots of gadgets available for bloggers on internet.

LAYOUT- In Blogging terminology layout is generally used to show the different arrangements of a blog such as where one’s gadgets will be placed, width arrangements. From layout you can change different settings on how your blog looks.

COMMENTS- Comments are used by most blogs but not all, they are generally used to give feedback to blog authors, ask them questions, requests etc

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