Feb 24 2009

Your Blog Access Rights

Now you will need to decide who you will allow to read, post, comment, etc. on your blog.  Many of the software tools we are going to cover have a lot of options on who can access your site, so having this information thought out will help our setup process.  Why do this before you [...]

Feb 17 2009

Naming your blog

Ideally the name of your blog will represent the subject matter.  We can take the Blogmaster General website & blog as an example.  We went through many different names before settling on Blogmaster General.  We were trying to come up with a name that when people saw it they would have a pretty good idea [...]

Feb 10 2009

Subject Matter

Now that you know why you want to blog, you have probably already decided what you are going to blog about.
If you want to blog to make money, then coming up with a subject matter might be a little more difficult.  Different subjects are going to be more or less in demand and thus produce [...]

Feb 3 2009

Initial Setup and brainstorming

So, you think you want to blog.  In the last post I listed a couple of items you should consider before jumping in.
Purpose:
Do you simply want to share information about your daily life with your family and friends, do you have a cause that you are deeply involved with or have a passion for, [...]