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WordPress is one of the most popular websites to create blogs. Whether you sign up using the .com service or download software through the .org service, you’re on the dashboard, looking around, and feeling overwhelmed. Don’t get discouraged; it’s easy.

On the left hand side of the screen listed from top to bottom is: dashboard, posts, media, links, pages, comments, feedback, polls, appearance, users, tools, and settings. The dashboard is your homepage, giving out a summary of your site and everything going on in WordPress. The posts are where you write the blogs, add new ones, organize, and see what goes on with your previous ones. The media section is where you can upload pictures and video and store it until you are ready to include them in your blogs. Links are where you store hyperlinks to websites until you’re ready for them to be seen. Pages are web pages you want to add besides your blog, like an about you page, a photo gallery, subpages, and more. Comments and Feedbacks are where you see responses from the public and where you write back. Polls are where you can create polls through Polldaddy.com. Ratings are where you allow the public to grade anything from the blogs to the comments. Appearance is another word for Themes. Themes are how your blogs will look with a certain background that you choose. The users section includes your profile, people who use this account, password changing, and more. The tools section is for the experienced, but for novices this has options on deleting your site. The Settings section includes everything from switching your email to adding a personal domain.

The top bar contains: account, blog, info, subscribe, add new and a search bar. Upgrades from the .com site include paying for no ads or space upgrades. Dot org Plugins are add-ons to your dashboard –you can add, add to, or disable a function you want. Plugins can also make your website more efficient.

You can view, edit, rearrange, or delete anything that’s not to your satisfaction. With WordPress, you’re in control of the site.

If your hobby is photography,and you like taking photos and you love the photo galleries or you are just a person who appreciates the beauty captured in photos you should create a photoblog on this topic where you can express your opinions, add photos or chat with those who have the same interest you have. Creating a blog is not a hard thing to do. There are numerous tutorials or indications on the internet that tell you step by step how you should proceed in creating your own blog. But before you start working at your personal blog after you have decided what will be the topic of the blog you should choose which will be the name of your blog, which platform will you choose to host your blog and other stuff.

For a photoblog you should choose a representative name so that people will know right from the name of the blog which is the topic. The name should match the domain and shouldn`t be a too long or complicated name so that it could be easy to remember. Some appropriate name for a photoblog could be: Amazing Landscapes, Fashion Photography, Photo Critics, Digital Cameras, Photography Magazine or Snapshot.

When it comes to choosing the platform for you blog there are some things you have to know. The most known and used platforms are Blogger and WordPress. These two publishing platforms are free and offer you lots of possibilities to customize your blog. Even if they are both offering free hosting, when you use WordPress you have to pay for some facilities. For example for a WordPress photoblog if you want to change the theme you have to pay. The only one which is 100% free is Blogger, but this doesn`t offer such a big number of possibilities you have for a WordPress blog. WordPress focuses more on aesthetics than other blog platforms and offers a great variety of free photoblog themes and templates. That is why this is the most appropriate publishing platform for a photoblog.

On your WordPress photoblog you can post any news about the latest appearances in terms of photography exhibitions, latest digital cameras or other interesting stuff you would like people to know or to write about on your blog. Of course the posts have to be in connection with the topic of your blog. The field of art and photography is a wide one so you have to be specific when you choose the topic of your WordPress photoblog and the subjects of discussion. If you choose to talk about landscapes photos or maybe about fashion photo shootings  you should stick to the topic you choose and you shouldn`t jump from nature to fashion.

If you want to have lots of visitors on your WordPress photoblog you can organize and suggest different competitions. The visitors should post their best photos which they have took and every week or month the best photo or photographer will be voted by all the blog visitors and will receive a prize. This kind of contests will encourage people to visit your WordPress photoblog and you will have lots of posts and visitors each day.

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Everyone has a blog these days and you want to create one for your own but you don`t know which blog platform you should choose. Maybe you are wondering which is the best blog platform and which are the main differences between the numerous blog platform that exist or maybe you want to know if it is worth to pay for the platform instead of choosing a free one. In the rows below there will be analyzed some of the most popular and appreciated blog platform and after reading this article you will be able to decide for yourself which is the best blog platform for your blog.

WordPress is definitely the most popular blog platform on market and in many opinions and reviews it is said to be the best blog platform. It dominates the blog market for years and it is appreciated especially because it is for free and it is easier to customize than the most blogs. The main inconvenient is that you can`t post ads or paid posts and you can`t make any kind of advertisement on your blog because you risk to have it removed. Although WordPress is known as free blog platform you should pay for some facilities as changing the theme. The alternative of WordPress is Movable Type, which is a free blog publishing system too. It can be downloaded be anyone and installed on the server.

Another popular platform blog is Blogger, the free blog platform service offered by Google. This is the perfect platform to choose if you don`t want to spend any money on your blog. But you only have a limited number of blog themes to choose from and there are lacking some important features in comparison with WordPress. This is the perfect blog to choose if you want a simple blog which doesn`t need to be updated. If you want a blog on Blogger you should be quite experienced at CSS or HTML. If not, you should choose WordPress which is less complicated and doesn`t require to be an expert in these fields. It is enough to have the basic knowledge about HTML.

Tumblr is another free blog platform like WordPress and Blogger. It is not one of the best blog platform but is maybe the most simple and easy to use. TypePad is the best blogging platform for premium and professional blogs. It is a paid service which offers you personal support and a domain. If you choose to go for this paid service you won`t regret it because it offers lots of themes and professional designs in comparison with a free blog platform as Blogger. Other famous blog platform are: Squarespace, Live Journal, Xanga and Open Salon.

In conclusion, the best blog platform is for sure WordPress. It offers support, a great variety of free plugging, it has a great maintenance and always it is available a new version. It is not very hard to use and it requires almost no HTML knowledge, so it is perfect for the beginners.

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