To start off on my intended path I realize that there is a lot I don't know. Not just about what goes into making a blog, but about what goes into making a webpage. I intend to explore both over the course of this week. But for this, my first day, my intent is to explore the different website options for the hosting of blogs (the name blog, incidently, was a shortening of the term "weblog" which was made popular by Jorn Barger on 17 December 1997).
I have spent the last couple of hours surfing a bunch of different blogging website options and all I can say is WOW! What have I gotten myself into? There are websites devoted strictly to blogging, such as Blogger, TypePad and Word Press. Then there are websites aimed at journalers, like Open Diary, Living File and My-Diary. And finally there are the hybrids; places that offer a mix of blogging and social networking such as Live Journal, places that offer tools for website creation targetted at bloggers like Squarespace, and places that are, ultimately, online content management systems (CMS) which are used by people to host their blogs in the cases of Drupal, Textpattern, and Tripod.
In the end, learning about the different options available has raised more questions than it has answered and leaves me a bit bewildered at the task ahead of me.
A question that may arise from those of you reading is "Why Blogger?" I wish that I could offer up a compelling and well-researched backing for my choice, but unfortunately the answer is: it was the first one I looked at that caught my eye. {smile}
For Tomorrow: An exploration of some of the tools used in basic website creation (hypertext, links, etc.).
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