subject: Blogs From Scratch - How To Build A Blog From Scratch [print this page] Before you begin writing your blog from scratch, decide what your goal is. Are you trying to sell something? Are you simply describing your daily life activities as a record for posterity, or do you want to entertain your friends and family? Who is the intended audience for your blog? How often do you want to write? What are the various ways you could be creative with your blog to highlight your writing skills? Maybe you only want to present a factual record of events or product and service events without personalizing the content for real. Once you answer those questions, you can consider the technical aspects of making your blog live on the internet.
Some people build personal blogs from scratch and use their creative sensibilities by assuming an alternate persona. For example, you could write a record of your daily life and highlight funny anecdotes by writing a blog from a dog's perspective. Maybe you would call it the dog blog. Taking on a unique perspective allows you to comment on life and other humans in a potentially funny way that allows you distance yourself personally. If you choose to build a business blog from scratch, you can still take on alternate personas in your quest to sell products or services. Whether you present yourself honestly as you are or with a creative approach, you can still present factual information, represent a personable, friendly point of view, and be entertaining and successful.
If you are focusing on the technical aspects of making blogs from scratch, know that you can have a blog application custom to your needs and desires. If you are creating both a new blog and website, you could hire an expert to do the whole job. You can tell the expert what you want. You can ask for some feedback and suggestions on the design you have in mind. The expert should be able to clarify why some design features will work better or not for your website and blog.
If you are an absolute beginner, you might consider a tutorial program. You can utilize any web server but customized web building software may be helpful and necessary.
Some software options include tutorials or other training you can try. You can start by selecting a basic blog template, and tools built in the program can take you step-by-step through the process. You will be able to add links, videos, pictures and other data depending on the software you are using.
