As first post of this guide to beginners, I will start by the most basic and elemental thing which is the Blog.

What Is A Blog ?

This site is a blog! may be the meaning could be taken as something obvious but is not for everybody, in fact, there is a lot of people with some idea about what is it, but they don’t know exactly what it mean. Blog have some many meanings, so lets check some of them:

A blog is a website where entries are commonly displayed in reverse chronological order. “Blog” can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog. Source Wikipedia

Blog — (weB LOG) A blog is basically a journal that is available on the web. Source BlogsCanada

A blog is a personal diary. A daily pulpit. A collaborative space. A political soapbox. A breaking-news outlet. A collection of links. Your own private thoughts. Memos to the world. Source Blogger

Blogs, or weB logs, are basically online journals or diaries which are great for sharing information and ideas. Source BBC

If you still with a doubt, lets collect all those meanings in a single one. Basically a blog is an space on the net, a website where you can share your ideas, your knowledge or simply your life, just like a diary. The entries or posts are displayed in reverse chronological order, this mean that the last entries are displayed in the top, this way your visitors can read the last posted content.

The Comments

For each entry, the visitors can make comments and share their ideas about the related topic. This way, you as blogger - blog administrator - can reply those comments, making the entry some fun and nice to read.

You have the authority to approve or decline any comment, even you can add an option to moderate the comments, and those won’t be displayed until you read and approve the proper comment. In the most of comments, the visitors drop their blog link to expand their network, but this technique will be taken in other post.

The Archives

“The archives” is a list with all the entries posted on your blog. You can manage this list by year, month, week or even by day, but the most common kind of archives are listed by month, is the most reasonable taking the fact that it can reduce this list quite a good way, much more than if you do it per week or day.