Jun 20 2008
Start by Blogging
Not only blogging will give you hands on experience about being online, it is something you can start for free, as well.
Blogging is easy to do, there are free blog accounts in many places. You can start and test topics without spending any money.
- Many of the actions about promoting and adding content to a blog are very similar to promoting and maintaining a web site. Blogging will let you hone those marketing and management skills.
- Studying and changing the templates will let you practice that HTML you are learning and some web master skills you need to maintain a site.
- You can start straight away with no special knowledge. If you can use electronic mail, you can blog.
Your effort will not be wasted, as you can channel the traffic from your blog to you site later. What’s more, you’ll be able to host the blog on site, when you build it. Blogger or WordPress, the two most popular systems, the last one is the most popular for site blogs.
Blogs are considered social media and have the advantage, for instance, of builiding RSS feeds for you. This lets you share your posts with other like minded people as they can subscribe to your feed easily.
If you want an example: this is a blog. Even established sites benefit from having a blog as the mean to convey brief news, short articles and other pieces of information.
