What is a Blog?
What is a Blog?
by: Arlene Gentallan
A blog, just like other websites, is a means of sharing information with topics ranging from personal passion and hobbies to global matters and interest. But what differentiates a blog from any other kind of website is its unique main feature of organizing its content "post" in a chronological order.
By chronological, I mean the most recent content "post" always goes on top of the homepage. In turn, the older posts gets embedded down the bottom of the page.)
Because of a blog's way of organizing "posts" in a chronological order, it's a culture shock to those people who are oriented to a static website wherein the homepage is more or less unchanging; it's homepage may display links to the recent news/hot deals people can click on while also showing it's offered myriad selection of topics and subtopics.
But wait...
The older post of a blog is not erased from history as time pass. There's a feature enabling one to conveniently locate them, it's called the "archive." Often, the Archive is located on the sidebar of a blog, displaying a hierarchy of blog posts arranged based on the date they were posted.
Another useful adds on feature of a blog is the two sided conversation offered by enabling "comments" on it. In contrast to the one-sided conversation of a static website wherein people just read/watch, a person can leave a comment of his/her opinion, feedback, recommendation and question on a blog post. This way, a blogger can interact with his/her audience.
A blog is a compilation of "posts" arranged with the most recent as first and the older last. All posts are easily accessible through the "archive." Where it's possible for people to leave "comments."
by: Arlene Gentallan
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| What is a Blog? |
A blog, just like other websites, is a means of sharing information with topics ranging from personal passion and hobbies to global matters and interest. But what differentiates a blog from any other kind of website is its unique main feature of organizing its content "post" in a chronological order.
By chronological, I mean the most recent content "post" always goes on top of the homepage. In turn, the older posts gets embedded down the bottom of the page.)
FYI
A blog is made up of series of content called "posts." A post is an entry made by the author (blogger.) It is a content of information consisting of a single or a combination of texts, images, links, videos, etc. So we can say that a post is equivalent to one piece of article, can be short, can be long.
Because of a blog's way of organizing "posts" in a chronological order, it's a culture shock to those people who are oriented to a static website wherein the homepage is more or less unchanging; it's homepage may display links to the recent news/hot deals people can click on while also showing it's offered myriad selection of topics and subtopics.
But wait...
The older post of a blog is not erased from history as time pass. There's a feature enabling one to conveniently locate them, it's called the "archive." Often, the Archive is located on the sidebar of a blog, displaying a hierarchy of blog posts arranged based on the date they were posted.
Another useful adds on feature of a blog is the two sided conversation offered by enabling "comments" on it. In contrast to the one-sided conversation of a static website wherein people just read/watch, a person can leave a comment of his/her opinion, feedback, recommendation and question on a blog post. This way, a blogger can interact with his/her audience.
SUMMARY:
A blog is a compilation of "posts" arranged with the most recent as first and the older last. All posts are easily accessible through the "archive." Where it's possible for people to leave "comments."
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