By Ronald Arnott
If you have decided you want to get into blogging or that you want to see what it would be like to have your own blog, you will need a site of your own set up on the Web. Sounds complicated, and expensive. But it's neither. There are a multitude of choices of sites and software available to set up your own blog site, so many that it can be mind boggling.
If you are not a web design expert and if you aren't ready to make a financial commitment to having your blog site up and running, there are also choices for you. The two services I am working with in my blog-exploration are Blogger and WordPress. To have a free account, your site will need to end with either "blogspot.com" (Blogger) or "WordPress.com." To get a site such as "yourname.com" you will need to pay for a domain name of your own, which you can do later if you decide to.
You don't have to know any web programming languages to create your site on Blogger or WordPress. You just set up an account and start the process of "designing" your site. There is a learning curve for those of us who have never done this before, but it is basically a matter of choosing from a selection of 'themes' and 'layouts' and saving your work. You can get as sophisticated as you want, but to get a basic blog up and running you can pretty much choose your theme and layout and click to "publish" your site.
So your blog site is up and ready to go. To start posting to it, you simply sign in and create "new posts". They will display in reverse chronological order in your blog, so the most recent post will be at the top of the page. Now, you just have to figure out what you want to blog about, and start posting to your new blog!
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