Cos'è un Blog?
Introduzione al Blogging
(courtesy of WordPress.org)
Che cosa è un “blog”?
“Blog” è una versione abbreviata del “weblog,” which is a term used to describe web sites that maintain an ongoing chronicle of information. A blog is a frequently updated, personal website featuring diary-type commentary and links to articles on other Web sites.
Blog spaziano dal personale al politico, and can focus on one narrow subject or a whole range of subjects. Many blogs focus on a particular topic, come notizie, web design, viaggiare, dello sport, or mobile technology.
Alcuni sono più eclettico, presentando i link a tutti i tipi di altri siti. E altri sono più simili a diari personali, presenting the author’s daily life and thoughts. Generalmente (although there are exceptions), i blog tendono ad avere un paio di cose in comune:
- Una zona contenuto principale con gli articoli elencati in ordine cronologico, newest on top.
- Spesso, gli articoli sono organizzati in categorie.
- Un archivio dei vecchi articoli.
- Un modo per le persone a lasciare commenti sugli articoli.
- Un elenco di link ad altri siti correlati, talvolta chiamato “Blogroll”.
- Uno o più “RSS” come RSS, Atomo o RDF file.
- Alcuni blog possono avere funzioni aggiuntive oltre questi.
Il Blog dei contenuti
Il contenuto è la raison d'être per qualsiasi sito web. Retail sites feature a catalogue of products. University sites contain information about their campuses, curriculum, e la facoltà. News sites show the latest news stories. Per un blog personale, si potrebbe avere un sacco di osservazioni, or reviews.
Without some sort of updated content, there is little reason to visit a web site more than once. Su un blog, il contenuto consiste di articoli (a volte chiamato anche “i messaggi” o “le voci”) che l'autore(s) scrive. Sì, alcuni blog hanno più autori, each writing his/her own articles.
Tipicamente, blog authors compose their articles in a web-based interface, integrato nel sistema di blogging stesso. Some blogging systems also support the ability to use stand-alone “weblog client” software, which allows authors to write articles offline and upload them at a later time.
Comments
Vuoi un sito web interattivo? Wouldn’t it be nice if the readers of a website could leave comments, tips or impressions about the site or a specific article? Con i blog, possono! Posting comments is one of the most exciting features of blogs.
La maggior parte dei blog hanno un metodo per permettere ai visitatori di lasciare commenti.
There are also nifty ways for authors of other blogs to leave comments without even visiting the blog! Detto “pingbacks” o “Trackbacks”, they can inform other bloggers whenever they cite an article from another site in their own articles. All this ensures that online conversations can be maintained painlessly among various site users and websites.
La differenza tra un blog e CMS?
Software that provides a method of managing your website is commonly called a CMS or “Content Management System”. Many blogging software programs are considered a specific type of CMS. They provide the features required to create and maintain a blog, and can make publishing on the internet as simple as writing an article, dando un titolo, and organizing it under (uno o più) categorie.
Mentre alcuni programmi CMS offrono funzionalità vaste e sofisticate, a basic blogging tool provides an interface where you can work in an easy and, ad un certo grado, intuitive manner while it handles the logistics involved in making your composition presentable and publicly available. In altre parole,, si arriva a concentrarsi su ciò che si vuole scrivere, and the blogging tool takes care of the rest of the site management.
WordPress is one such advanced blogging tool and it provides a rich set of features. Attraverso i suoi pannelli di amministrazione, you can set options for the behaviour and presentation of your weblog. Via these Administration Panels, si possono facilmente comporre un post sul blog, push a button, e sarà pubblicata su internet, istantaneamente! WordPress goes to great pains to see that your blog posts look good, the text looks beautiful, e il codice html che genera è conforme agli standard web.
Archivio
Un blog è anche un buon modo per tenere traccia di articoli su un sito. A lot of blogs feature an archive based on dates (like a monthly or yearly archive). The front page of a blog may feature a calendar of dates linked to daily archives.
Archives can also be based on categories featuring all the articles related to a specific category. Non si ferma qui; you can also archive your posts by author or alphabetically. The possibilities are endless. This ability to organize and present articles in a composed fashion is much of what makes blogging a popular personal publishing tool.
Feeds
Una alimentazione è una funzione di software speciale che consente “Feedreaders” to access a site automatically looking for new content and then post updates about that new content to another site. This provides a way for users to keep up with the latest and hottest information posted on different blogging sites. Alcuni includono Feeds RSS (alternativamente definita “Rich Site Summary” o “Really Simple Syndication”), Atomo o RDF file.
Syndication – RSS
Un feed è un machine readable (di solito XML) content publication that is updated regularly. Molti blog pubblicano un feed (di solito RSS, but also possibly Atom and RDF and so on, come descritto sopra). There are tools out there that call themselves “feedreaders”. What they do is they keep checking specified blogs to see if they have been updated, and when the blogs are updated, essi mostrano il nuovo post, e un link ad esso, with an excerpt (o l'intero contenuto) del post. Each feed contains items that are published over time. Quando si verifica un feed, the feedreader is actually looking for new items.
New items are automatically discovered and downloaded for you to read. Just so you don’t have to visit all the blogs you are interested in. All you have to do with these feedreaders is to add the link to the RSS feed of all the blogs you are interested in. The feedreader will then inform you when any of the blogs have new posts in them. Most blogs have these “Syndication” RSS disponibili per i lettori da usare.
La gestione dei commenti
Una delle caratteristiche più interessanti di strumenti per il blogging sono i commenti. This highly interactive feature allows users to comment upon article posts and link to your posts and comment on and recommend them. These are known as trackbacks and pingbacks.
