Create a Blog
A blog is just another website tailored for you to communicate your ideas on whatever subject you choose over the web. It allows other users to comment and interact with you on this subject. It is an excellent vehicle for you get your ideas out to the world and can also be a great way to make money as a result of your knowledge on your specialised subject.
Best Products for Creating a Blog
There are many products available that will help your create you blog. Here are some of the recognised FREE products for you to use.
Wordpress
WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time. Click here to download Wordpress.
Blogger
Blogger is FREE and very easy to use. It provides all the functionality you need for your blog with themes gadgets and more. Click here to download Blogger.
Thesis
The Thesis Theme for WordPress is a high-quality template system that you can use to improve your site immediately.
Thesis boasts an expertly-coded HTML + CSS + PHP framework and additional options that will allow you to fine-tune each and every page of your site. Click here to go to the Thesis homepage.
Blog Hosting
There are two ways to host a blog.
Remote Hosting
Remote hosting means that your content sits on the server of the blogging platform such as Wrodpress or blogger.
The risk here is that you could loose your content if for any reason you are banned from their server.
If you are happy to get your message out there then this will work fine however if you want to make money from your blog then this is not recommended as you will want you own blog address as against somethinb like http://yourblog/wordpress.com.
Self Hosting
This is pretty much the same as setting up your website. You use one of the hosting companies as referenced in the Web Hosting page on this site. This means you have to pay but it gives you the advantage of having your own blog site and will help you better promote it and make money on it.
Make Money with Your Blog
There are many ways to make money from your blog but first you have got to get noticed! Check out Yaro Stark's blogmastermind.com site as this guy knows what he is at when it comes to blogs. At a minimum subscribe to his newsletter which is free and gives some serious tips on how to make money fron your blog.
