As you start of your career as a blogger, you are going to have to learn some of the important terminology which bloggers use. These are the four most important words for you to learn as a novice blogger: blog, domain, platform and web host. Once you learn these terms, you’ll be able to discuss blogging as if you’ve been at it for years. When you understand how blogging works you’ll have no trouble passing your blogging 101 exam.

Blog is short for weblog. A weblog, or blog is made up of posts which are organized chronologically, sort of like a diary, only online. Most blogs are text only, but there are a growing number of photo blogs and even video blogs. To start your blog, you’ll have to learn a little about the technical details - hosts, webhosts and platforms.

First, let’s address platform. Your platform is a piece of software which lets you write your posts and upload them to your blog. Platforms will also include design tools to customize the look of your blog.

The next term is web host. A web host refers to the company (or a server owned by that company) which is the “residence” of your blog. Think of it as a sort of file cabinet where the blog posts you write are stored.

The last term is domain; this is simply the website address of your blog, which usually ends in .com.

Once you learn all of these important terms which every blogger has to know, you deserve a reward: you have successfully completed blogging 101!