| great that the phrase blog floats around the net day in | | | | blog was starting to pick up pace, and as a result |
| and day out, but what if you have no idea what a blog | | | | became a phenomenon. Once it became free to the |
| really is? Is this going to be helpful to your web site? | | | | public, it really took off and was a pastime that was |
| No, not really. Here we will offer some information on | | | | enjoyed by many. Web logs were hand coded by |
| the phrase blog, and you can decide for yourself if it | | | | developers on the web before the software became |
| may or may not be useful in your web pages. This | | | | available. The use of html was the main coding for this |
| way you will not be wasting your time on something | | | | program, and the web designers at the time were |
| you may not need, and the energy can be put to | | | | pretty much the only ones that knew it. Now that this |
| something you find more useful for yourself. The term | | | | new software is available to the general public, anyone |
| blog refers to weblog and it is in every fashion not a | | | | is capable of making a blog. The moment blogger was |
| commercial or professional site. It is more of the | | | | released in 1999 it became a huge success with the |
| personal nature, for comment or web site material. | | | | public. Now people are not restricted on what kind of |
| Generally the most recent information on a blog is kept | | | | weblog they make, fast-forward to the year 2000 and |
| at the top of the page, as blog's are dated log formats. | | | | people are making as many as 300-350 new blogs |
| frequently they will have commentary of other sites or | | | | daily. There is actually a directory for all these blogs, |
| links directing you to them. Oftentimes the site is | | | | and it contains as many as 5,500 entries. This is now a |
| dictated by group links and the log is updated regularly. | | | | craze with over 750,000 blog users; this was not |
| The opinion is that this was the very first weblog, way | | | | merely a passing trend obviously. There are multiple |
| back in 1993 and it was called the Mosaic. This was | | | | tools these days for the people that are truly |
| generally a compiling of links that where kind of | | | | interested in blogging, this software can be found online |
| disregarded. It took until 1998 for there to be a mere | | | | and has become extremely popular. Check out the |
| handful of these so called blog's in existence. The | | | | craze for yourself and see what you think of it, you |
| bloggers all knew each other and were swapping the | | | | may just enjoy it. |
| links between themselves. By the year 1999 this term | | | | |