Professional Blogging – Choosing the Right Platform

Everywhere you click on the web, you're bound to come across a blog or three. Blogs run the gamut of topics, everything from family news to celebrity gossip. No matter your topic, if you've ever considered the world of professional blogging careers, depending on your personal flair, there are many free, simple to use platforms like Joomla, WordPress, Posterous or Weebly to choose from.

Some platforms allow you to make minor changes to their existing templates or even incorporate your own template designs. The latter option is great for more advanced users especially those who understand HTML and CSS and have access to design software like Adobe Creative Suite. But if you are a newbie, no worries, blogs usually run on a WISYWIG – what you see is what you get – system that lets you input your text in the same fashion as you would in a word processing program.

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The World of Professional Blogging – Blog Elements

In The World of Professional Blogging - Choosing the Right Platform, we discussed the many types of platforms whirling around the interwebs. Now that you have a grasp of what is available to you, you'll choose the platform that best suits your style and captures the essence of your topic or topics.

So, now that you know the skinny on the basic element of a blog such as the admin area, site maps, etc. it's time to discuss the guts of your blog. These areas will be where you place your content and where you will drive your readers. You'll be able to add photos, videos and more. For the most part, the sky's the limit.

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