Creating a Blog on your website is easy.  No, you don’t need WordPress or other applications.  You can do it right on your own mySiteWizard.org site.  Surprised?  Let me clear up a misunderstanding that is flying around. Wiki defines a Blog as a contraction of Web Log. That is exactly what it is.  It is a website which includes a chosen subject that you regularly add new information to.  That’s it.  You do not need simple or complicated applications.  You can create a blog directly on your existing site. Here’s how …

Firstly, choose a subject.  If the purpose of your blog is to attract an audience and even participants make sure that your subject has a following.  Is there room for another blog on the subject? Personalizing your information and ensuring that you bring something a little different to the subject increases the likelihood of success.

Sharpen your pencil and visit your competitors.  List what these sites include such as categories, comment forms, polls etc.  After you have completed this decide on the features that you have to have and those which hinder visitors from finding what they want on your blog.

Now log in to your site and let’s do it!

1. Add a New Page and name it Blog.  Ensure that the URL of this page includes Blog.
2. Decide on how your categories will be organized. For example, by subject or by month or both.
3. Decide on the location of this menu.  You may choose to place the categories in the Page Master Menu.  In this case all your webpages will include this menu. Alternatively, you may decide to have this menu exclusively on your Blog pages.   To do this create a new page by choosing Add a New Page then click Copy. Click Blog then change the word Blog to the article name etc.  This saves the time and the aggro of setting up each new page with this menu.
4. If you want visitors to add a comment use the Comment Form
5. If you want to create a membership to send out an email alert to inform of new blog items -then do this.  I choose not to hide any of my pages from all visitors.  The Join function is solely to provide members with a service. Now if you have a site which will be consistently loaded with new information consider using the Directory feature at mySiteWizard.org.  There is a great Search feature for you or visitors and the organization is wicked.  Really!  Whether you choose to use the Directory is not critical now.  You can always do this in the future.

Questions and comments – I’m always here to support you in your website success.

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