Building a Successful Blog
In this introductory course on blogging we will go over a few of the basics of blogging and show the way to get started with blogging immediately.
What you'll learn
Expressing yourself is the most common behavior of humans, and blogging has made it easy to express yourself. Just like a letter or book has a structure and formula, blogging also has structure and formula. In this introductory course on blogging, we will go over a few of the basics of blogging and show how to get started with blogging immediately. If you already have a blog, this course will be even more relevant, as it will discuss many of the common questions and issues you face in your blogging routine.
Table of contents
- Introduction 1m
- How to Choose a Blog Host 2m
- Blogging Applications 1m
- Wordpress 2m
- Demo: Wordpress 3m
- Blogspot 1m
- Demo: Blogspot 1m
- Tumblr 1m
- Demo: Tumblr 1m
- Typepad and Live Journal 1m
- Choosing a Blog Host - Points for Considerations 4m
- Various Hosting Options 2m
- Domain Names 4m
- Good and Bad Domain Names 2m
- Custom Theme 5m
- Design Elements - Readability 4m
- Design Elements - Color, Fonts, Menu etc 3m
- Demo: Good Designs 2m
- Design Elements - Background 3m
- Parts of Blogs 2m
- Title - Best Practices 4m
- Pages, categories and Tags 2m
- Comments 1m
- RSS Feed 1m
- Points to Ponder 1m
About the author
Pinal Dave is an SQL Server Performance Tuning Expert and independent consultant with over 22 years of hands-on experience. He holds a Master of Science degree and numerous database certifications. Pinal has authored 14 SQL Server database books and 81 Pluralsight courses. To freely share his knowledge and help others build their expertise, Pinal has also written more than 5,800 database tech articles on his blog at https://blog.sqlauthority.com.