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How blogs are made
Server-based systems eliminate the need for bloggers to manage the software. With web interfaces, these systems allow travelers to blog from anywhere on the Internet. A blogroll is a list of links that create a context for a blog. Bloggers with common interests will share a blogroll to help each other increase their visibility on the Internet. A feedback comment system allows visitors to blogs to post comments. Frequent comments testify to popular blogs, but some bloggers prefer to pre-screen or block comments.
Tools such as Ecto, Elicit and w.bloggar allow users to maintain their Web-hosted blog without the need to be online while composing or editing posts. The TrackBack feature introduced by Movable Type in 2002 enables mulitple blogs to be automatically notified when certain topical or other changes are made to one blog. (bBlog has gone as far as implementing threaded trackbacks on comments and comments on trackbacks.) Linking between blogs is credited with complicating search engine page ranking techniques. [6] [7] Integrating blogs into search results threatens websites that are arguably more credible. (However, as one Google executive may have remarked, it is the search engine's job to find the ways that a website represents a "vote" for another website.)
Some Web hosting companies (Tripod), Internet service providers (America Online) and online publications (Salon) provide blog creation tools and blog hosting. Some people program blogs from scratch using ColdFusion, CGI, pure Ruby, Rails, ASP, ASP.NET or other server side software. While this is difficult, the creativity can be rewarding. Others have created blogs using wiki software, such as the Wikimedia platform. |
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Blogging software make blogs possible. These are some popular software packages: Nucleus CMS, Movable Type, Drupal, b2evolution, boastMachine, Antville, Serendipity and WordPress. A good program combines a user-friendly interface and format flexibility.