Blogging, that is, keeping personal online diaries, is extremely popular today on the Russian-speaking Internet. Blogs are run by everyone, from the president of the country to junior schoolchildren. Russian-language blogs are both a way of self-expression, and a form of communication and exchange of opinions, and full-fledged media, and even business. In other words, a blog is already much more than just another online entertainment.
Instructions
Step 1
If you decide that you also need a personal online diary, first of all, you should decide on the site for its placement. In many ways, the choice of a platform for a blog depends on the goals of its author and the tasks that are set for the blog itself. If you want to have a personal diary in order to express your views and communicate with like-minded people, this is one option, if you are planning a blog for some specific tasks (business, making money, promoting certain ideas), it is completely different. Today on the Internet there are two ways to create a personal blog: using one of the many free services or creating a separate blog on a paid hosting.
Step 2
If you just need a personal online diary, there is no point in worrying about paid hosting and domains, it is better to choose a blog on one of the free services. The difficulty here is to navigate among them and find the most suitable one for your goals. Today, the most popular on the Runet are such blogging platforms as LiveJournal, Diary.ru, LiveInternet, the popular service for teenagers Beon.ru, as well as blogs on Mail.ru and Ya.ru.
Step 3
The main advantages of these platforms are their freeness, ease of registration and functionality, the ability to easily find like-minded people and create entire communities of interest, regular updates without your participation. Powerful popular services have their own staff of programmers who support and develop these platforms. The disadvantages include limited user options, standard design, complex domain name, the presence of third-party advertising, the absence of any user rights to the blog, the impossibility of commercial activities. In addition, to register blogs on Mail.ru and Ya.ru, you must have mailboxes on the mail servers of the platform owners - mail.ru or yandex.ru.
Step 4
An alternative to massive free blogs is the so-called "stand-alone" blogs. At their core, they are independent sites hosted on paid hosting and, as a rule, have their own domain name. To create them, you need some kind of cms (Content management system), that is, a content management system, and the author has certain knowledge in the field of creating sites. Stand-alone blogs are usually created to solve commercial problems - making money from contextual advertising or promoting any services and goods. These blogs are completely independent in their functionality, have a complex structure and often look like full-fledged sites. The disadvantage of such blogs is the impossibility of creating a system of friends (friends) and the complexity of promotion at the initial stage.
