■ A blog originally was a personal website meant to be like a diary or journal. ■ Basically a type of website, like a forum or a social bookmarking site. ■ A type of website that is usually arranged in chronological order from the most recent ‘post’ (or entry) at the top of the main page to the older entries towards the bottom. ■ Blogs usually have a few features that are useful to know about if you want to get the most out of them as a reader.

● Start your favorite web browser. ● Type in in address bar of your browser. ● You will be taken to the Blogger’s home page. ● Scroll down a little bit then page will be shown like following picture ● Now Click at “CREATE YOUR BLOG NOW”. ● You will be presented a first step to create a blog “Create a Google account”. ● Now you will be shown second step to create a blog that is Naming a blog. So you must think an appropriate a blog title and blog URL beforehand.

● If you want to host your blog somewhere else then Click “Advanced Blog Setup” link else click “Continue” to proceed further. ● Now after clicking “Continue” button you will be presented third step to create a blog that “Choose a template” here you can choose a template for your blog from variety of template click “Preview template” link to preview your blog. If you choose a template from here then also you can change it later. ● Click “Continue button” and you are done. Your blog has been successfully created. ● Now click “Start Posting” button to write a first post for your blog. Write a title of post and body of post. You can also format your post by given formatting tools like bold, italic, underline, text color, size, font and alignment of the text then click “Publish” button to publish your first post. If successful message appears then you have successfully post your blog post. Now click “View blog” to view your blog. Happy blogging.

The features that make blogs different from other websites are: ► content is published in a chronological fashion. ► content is updated regularly. ► readers have the possibility to leave comments. ► other blog authors can interact via trackbacks and pingbacks. ► content is syndicated via RSS feeds.