How to get a blog up and writing a post in 5 minutes

1. A Day Well Spent:
BLOGGING

2. What’s a blog?
•A blog is essentially a website which you can
update yourself.
•Blogs – short for weblogs – were started
online diaries.
•In the past three years in Australia, blogging
has exploded.

3. What do people blog about?
• Personal
• Family
• Travel
• Fashion
• Beauty
• Home/interiors
• Food
• Current affairs
• Business
• Health and wellbeing
• Cars
• Sport
• TV

4. What are you going to blog about?
Today you’re going to start and blog and write
your first blog post!
You need to think about:
1. Your blog’s name
2. Your blog’s niche – or topic
3. Your blog’s voice – or style

5. Let’s get started!
Got to wordpress.com
Click: GET STARTED HERE!

6. What’s next? Time: 15 minutes
The Dashboard is the home page of
your website’s control room (or back
end). It’s from here that you can
alter the look of your blog; write a
post or write a page.
Themes. A WordPress theme is a
template of how your blog can
look. There are 100s to choose from
in this free format and you don’t
have to stick with what you first
choose.

7. Pages and posts
WordPress blogs offer two
menu systems:
• Pages
• Categories
Pages are like the static pages of
your blog, for example your ABOUT
page
Categories are more dynamic.
You can have as many categories as
you like within your topic. For
example, your blog’s niche is
finance. two of your categories
might be: personal finance and
budgeting tips.

8. Your task! Time: 30 minutes
You are going to write ONE short blog post.
TOPIC: A Day Well Spent
• No word limit
• Think of your style - your voice
• Write from the first person – using the word “I”
• How would you describe the new brand to a friend over a coffee,
a glass of wine or a beer?
• Think of that “chat” – write the words from that chat

9. What to know more?

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