Create Your New Blog in 6 Steps

Continuing the series of how to create, maintain, promote a new blog with a post which would help the readers to make a note, think and evaluate the steps suggested below before creating a new blog. This post has been written after having been on the blogosphere for over a year and a half now and having made small mistakes, interctions with so many bloggers and getting their views as well.

Creating and maintaining a blog is NO BIG DEAL, it's NOT difficult and most importantly it's NOT just for 'dorks, nerds and geeks'. On the contrary once you start blogging you'd experience that blogging is a highly effective medium to channelize your creative energies and showcase your talent easily.

101 Ideas for your new blog

Till date it's not difficult to come across people who think and have a notion that blogging is really difficult or even worse, that it's a thing that nerds and geeks do. That's indeed a clear misconception because blogging has always been a medium to express your thoughts, feelings, opinions etc. on topics which you connect with/ relate to. Having said that, there are no doubts, that there was a time when creating a blog meant knowing a lot of HTML, SEO rules, basic coding and a lot of other things. But that's a story of the past. Today a blog is just as good as the time invested in it by the blogger and the interest taken. Frankly, I think every person should at least try their hand at blogging at least once to understand the real deal. Let's hope these series of posts help you to make your decision.

In more ways than one, owning a blog is an excellent way to utilize your leisure time, it's a liberating feeling which gives you a sense of achievement. The idea of this post (and a few more to follow in the series of how to make your own blog and maintain it) is to help you clear your inhibitions and realize how easy the process of creating your blog is. In this post I plan to mention, not 1; 10; 25; 50 but 101 areas of interest which you can use in parts, as a whole, mix a few topics of your interest together or think of a topic not mentioned in the list below for your blog; because truly, with blogging sky is not the limit, it's just the starting line.

Blogger Tweaks: Interactive Comments using....

Comments are an excellent way to create loyal readers for your blog. Comments add the human touch to the digital space and feel of blogs. One of the biggest problems with comments is that internet is filled with people who'd leave spam comments on your blog. An easy way to tackle this problem is to make user verification mandatory before posting comments. However, this also proves to be a deterrent at times when the reader doesn't want to login separately to his/ her Google/ Livejournal account to post the comment. The solution to this problem can be found in this blogging tweak.

Blogger Tweaks: Drop Down Menu for Labels/ Tags

Although Blogger keeps updating features and adding many new features constantly (click here to follow the official Blogger blog where all updates are announced) to make the job easier for all the fellow bloggers, there are times when one has to look for tweaks online to customize their blog. One of the best part about having your blog on blogger is that finding HTML codes to make those tweaks work is relatively easy. I've decided to dedicate a post every time I find a tweak and reveal the source from where I found the tweak. This post reveals the tweak to create a drop down menu for the tags of your blog.