How to Start Your Own Blog in Less
than 15 Minutes
Creating a blog is nothing that you need to be afraid of. There is no elaborate planning
required either. However, there are a few things you would need to decide. Since these
blogging service providers give you a lot of choice in terms of template and color
themes, would be require to take those decisions yourself.
The following is a quick guide of what to think over before creating your blog:
Theme: Determine what you would be writing about or the nature of the content
that you would be sharing with your readers. This depends mainly on your
interest. Topics blogging to the field of politics, poetry, arts, current affairs, or
almost anything under the sun can be chosen. You can stick to one theme or you
can choose to write about whatever concerns you on a day to day basis. Since it
is your very own web journal, you can make it as flexible as possible in all
aspects.
Blogging Provider: Next you need to decide upon which blogging service
provider you would like to use. This depends on the kind of reviews that you get
about them from friends and acquaintances, or something about them that you
may have read online. Otherwise, you can always try out something and find out
if you like it. You can try out one of these popular sites: Blogger.com,
WordPress.com, Typepad, Blogagotchi.com, Livejournal.com,
JournalHome.com, TheDiary.org, Mindsay.com, Blog.com, Diaryland.com,
Blogdrive.com, or Xanga.com.
Templates: A wide range of templates will be made available on any blogging
service you decide to start you blog. Select the one you most prefer or like.
Freebies: The advantage with these blogging service providers is that they make
your blogging experience as dynamic and interactive as possible. They enable
you to install add-on features that include button, pictures, blog chalks, imoods,
tagboards such as myshoutbox.com, guest maps, guestbooks, comment boxes
for readers' thoughts and views, etc.