If you want to give yourself a Web presence without spending a lot of time or money, a blog is your answer. Blogs (Web logs) are short, diary like entries on a Web site that has a chronological, journal format. Fun or informative, but not formal, blogs are easy to set up, maintain, and update. This guide helps beginners get started on making one.
About the Author
Brad Hill has worked in the online field since 1992 and has written 20 books. As a best selling author, columnist, and blogger, Brad reaches a global audience of consumers who rely on his writings to help determine their online service choices. Brad s books include a Publishers Weekly bestseller and a Book of the Month catalog selection. Brad's titles in the For Dummies series include Google For Dummies and Building Your Business with Google For Dummies. Brad is often consulted in the media's coverage of the Internet. He appears frequently on television, radio, Webcasts, and has been quoted in Business Week, The New York Times, and innumerable other publications.
Brad is Associate Editor of Weblogs, Inc., the world s largest blog network, where he helps to manage about 100 blogs written by nearly 200 bloggers. As a staff blogger at Weblogs, Inc., for two years, he posted well over 3,000 entries in blogs about digital music, Google, Yahoo!, search engine marketing, and others. As a hobby, Brad operates independent blogs about dogs , classical music , and his own bad self . He and his wife maintain a photo blog about their adventures at home and on vacations, read mostly by friends and family. Brad has not won the Nobel Prize, and the prospect seems doubtful. He remains cheerful.
