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Basically ?blog? is a verb that means to maintain or add content to a blog. Usually a blog reflects the thinking of a creator. A blog is generally known as a ?weblog?. A blog generally consists of text, images and link to other blog. The creator of the blog generally expresses his views on the blog. Creating of a blog site is generally easy. To create a blog site many free open source blog tools are available. Primarily to make a simple website there is no need to know web designing. You need to open a hosting account in which blog applications can be installed and activated. A blog is a part of the World Wide Web.

Types of Blog

Usually there are various types of blog available. They are:

? Personal Blog ? This type of blog is commonly used by an individual. Basically in this type of blog, the owners express their feelings as well as views.
? Corporate Blog ? This type of blog is generally used for business purpose in the corporate world.
? Question Blogging ? This type of blog is used to answer questions. The viewers submit their question through email or any other means.
? Other types of blog are art blog, photo blog, video blog etc.

Ways to create a blog site

There are some readymade blog tools available to create a blog site. There are many in build functions such as posting articles, HTML Editor, archive etc. Free themes are available on the Internet for your blog site.

Types of Blog Application

Generally there are two popular blog applications available.

1. Create a blog with Wordpress ? At first you need to open a free hosting site in which wordpress is installed. With the help of wordpress hosting package any one can create their own site.
2. Create a blog with Drupal - You need to open a free hosting site in which Drupal is installed and create your site through Drupal hosting package.

Ways to make your blog better

There are many ways to make a blog attractive, faster and better. The ways are as follows:-

? Blog from Firefox ? You can blog from any page, you want with the help of ScribeFire. ScribeFire is nothing but an add-on for firefox. To republish you can easily drag and drop pages on ScribeFire.
? Blog from your Desktop ? Ecto is one of the best blogging desktop clients for both Mac and Windows. It?s easy to post multiple blogs and it supports Wordpress, Typepad, Blogger and more.
? Theme ? The themes on your blog has to be catchy and has to suit your personality.
? Update frequently ? Creating a blog is not the end of your job. You must update your blog frequently so that visitors come around to take a look at your updates.
? Publicity ? Tell everyone about your blog such as your friends, relatives, and neighbor.
? SEO your blog ? This is mainly to get good traffic from Search Engines. This will make your blog better and popular.
? Easily convert text to Html ? The text to HTML conversion tool is MarkDown. It helps to convert your text to HTML automatically making you more comfortable.
? Submit your Posts to social sites at a time ? By submitting your posts you can make your blog famous and to do this you have take the help of Onlywire tool.
? Copy the web links as HTML ? This helps to quickly copy your web links as HTML code. As a result it helps the blog to work better.
? Content ? Above all these factors lie content. If the content of the blog is attractive then visitors will visit often. Thus your blog will become popular and better.