Welcome back to our ongoing series, Blogging Basics, where we give you blogging tips to create a successful blog. Click the link to view all of the posts that have been published in this series to date.

Here at Berries and Cream Blog Design, we work with a lot of new bloggers. Often, new bloggers are confused and overwhelmed by the blogosphere’s culture, terms, and unwritten rules and expectations. If you are an overwhelmed blogging newbie, this series of posts is for you.

A relationship begins with an introduction, and it’s no different with blogging. If you decide to blog, you will build an intimate relationship with your blog. So here’s your formal introduction to get this relationship started right.

Newbie, Meet Blog… Blog, Meet Newbie.

Good – you’re now acquainted. Let’s dig into the good stuff, like background information.

What a Blog Is

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Welcome to our ongoing series, Blogging Basics, where we give you blogging tips to create a successful blog. Click the link to view all of the posts that have been published in this series to date.

Blogs, bloggers and the blogosphere in general have become the topic of many myths. Here are a few popular blog-related myths with the truth revealed.

Myth #1: Anyone can start a blog.

False. Contrary to this popular myth, not just anyone can start a blog. There are some requirements, some more obvious than others, that are part of having a blog. (more…)