By Don Bethune

In this age where internet access is widespread, almost everyone and their mothers have a blog, or at least have read a blog. Blogs are the soapboxes of the 21st century- a place where a person can freely express his or her opinions, whether it be the relative advantages of the free market vs protectionism, or the sheer adorableness of her cat Bobo.

It is no longer necessary for one to be well versed in HTML, the language of the computer, or even the computer itself in order to utilize this form of expression. Many sites offer services that allow you to aposta your content with the click of a button, uploaded for the world to see. One of the most well known sites offering this service is Wordpress.com.

The nice thing about blogs is that they are super easy to create. To start a blog, you no longer need to know anything about computers, apart from where the keyboard is. This is because there are plenty of online blogging tools at your disposal. The 2 most famous ones are Blogspot and Wordpress.

There are also ways to add features to your page allowing other users to leave comments, or feedback. Say you write a blog on music, and you talk about your favorite song. If this artist has a website, Wordpress enables you to create a alinka to that site. This means that a reader will be able to click on this link, which will then take them to their site so that they can see exactly what it is you are talking about.

There are a variety of other ways to make your site more fun and user friendly. Helping to draw more attention to, and drive more traffic through your site. However, if the main objective of your page is more of a daily journal, or just a place for you to vent, there are settings to allow only selected people to view it, or to not make it viewable at all to anyone but yourself.

The user-ability of the Wordpress is beyond simple. They hand hold you through a step by step sign up process, which after completing, you are given a page similar to what it would look like when writing an e-mail. And just like after finishing that e-mail, simply locate the asubmita button, and with one little click, Wordpress.com works its magic and within seconds your blog is posted and viewable.

By far the best thing about Wordpress is its ease of use. It is super easy to put up a new post: Just go to your account, type what you want to post, and click 'Submit.' It's that simple, even your grandmother could do it (as many grandmothers have, in fact) !

In conclusion, setting up and running a blog is hardly a daunting task. It is super easy to do so, once you have the proper tools and the best unique content to post. With Wordpress, your blog will be like magic. - 18098

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