About Blogging

First off, its easy peasy!

Its just like typing a word document, except the whole world gets to see it. Some blogging software requires you to know a little HTML, but its pretty easy to pick up and handy to know. Here is a nice basic cheat sheet of HTML codes from Webmonkey. Some of the very basics:

• Paragraph:

<p>blah blah blah
blah blah blah
blah blah blah</p>

• line break:

<br>blah blah blah</br>

• Bold:

<b>blah</b>

• Italic:

<i>blah</i>

• Underline:

<u>blah</u>

• Email:

<a href=”mail to: ckyle@libraryweb.org”>Cathy’s email</a>

• link:

<a href=”http://www.libraryweb.org”>MCLS website</a>

Its very important to close your codes with </> because otherwise the whole thing will be bold, italic, or a link.

Many of the more advanced blogs don’t require you to know any of this, but as I said, it can be useful.

Personally I like wordpress because for someone with a lot of blogs, its easy to manage them all. An unfortunate side affect of blogs becoming more reliable and easy to use is that there is always one that’s better than the one you are using. This is what happened to me and why I went from blogger to edublogs to wordpress.

~ by cathykyle on January 29, 2007.