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Web Blogsby Ulan YRYSBAEV

Development of Business Applications (DOBA)

http://doba2007.wordpress.com

Contents

Useful Sources and References

Methods of Blogging

Web Blog Software comparison and Features

Type of Web Blogs

What is a Web Blog?

Conclusion and Demo

Definitions

What is a Web Blog?

“ A blog is a website in which items are posted on a

regular basis and displayed in reverse chronological order.

The term blog is a shortened form of weblog or web log.

Authoring a blog, maintaining a blog or adding an

article to an existing blog is called “blogging”.

Blogs use conventional style of documentation.

Often blogs focus on a particular area of interest

while some blogs discuss personal experience. ”

- Wikipedia


Definitions

What is a Web Blog?

“ „Blog‟ is an abbreviated version of "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.

Blogs range from the personal to the political, and

can focus on one narrow subject or a whole range of

subjects. ”

- Wordpress


Definitions

What is a Web Blog?

“ Short for Web log, a blog is a Web page that serves

as a publicly accessible personal journal for an individual or

as a communication tool for businesses.

Regularly updated, blogs often reflect the personality

of the author.

Postings are arranged in reverse chronological order

– meaning the most recently added article appears first,

followed by the second most recently added article and so

on. ”

- Blogware


Blog Types

By Media Type

oVlog is a blog comprising VIDEOS

oLinklog is a blog comprising LINKS

oSketchblog is a blog containing a PORTFOLIO of SKETCHES.

oPhotoblog is a blog comprising Photos

oTumblelogs is a blogs with shorter posts and mixed media types


Blog Types

By Devices

Blogs can also be defined by which type of

device is used to compose it. A blog written

by a mobile device like a mobile phone or

PDA is called a MOBLOG.


Blog Types

By Genre

Some blogs focus on a particular subject,

such as Political blogs, Travel blogs,

Fashion blogs, Project blogs or Dream

blogs etc.

While not a legitimate type of blog, one

used for the sole purpose of spamming is

known as a SPLOG.


Blog Types

By Legal Status

A blog can be private, as in most cases, or

it can be for business purposes.

Blogs, either used internally to enhance the

communication and culture in a corporation

or externally for marketing, branding

purposes are called CORPORATE Blogs.


Web Blog Softwares

There are a lots of ready both commercial

and free Web Blog softwares. Most of them

are open source softwares which means it

is available to configure and enhance

according to your needs. Even their

community welcome people willing to

contribute in code development and willing

to contribute in financial aspect.

B2evolution, Wordpress and Serendipity

are examples for these Web Blog softwares


What is on Offer?

There are two types of packages you can

use:

• The Hosted service

• The Self-hosted packages


What is on Offer?

The Hosted service:

If you would like to start publishing on the

Web, but you don't have any Web hosting, you

may want to look into a hosted service for your

needs. Ex: Blogger, TypePad etc.

All of these services are managed for you, so

you never have to worry about technical

maintenance of your Weblog: instead, you can

focus on your blog's content and appearance.


What is on Offer?

The Self-Hosted service:

If you have Web hosting available (or are

willing to purchase hosting) and feel that the

benefits will outweigh the drawbacks of

maintaining your own blog installation, you'll

want to consider a self-hosted package. F.e.

Movable Type, WordPress,Textpattern etc.

Some hosting companies have made the

installation process a little easier, allowing

one-click installation from a browser-based

control panel.http://doba2007.wordpress.com

Let’s go through the Scenario

Let’s go

through the

comparison

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Features of Web Blogs

Cost: Web blog software can be open source

or/and commercial.

Minimum Requirements:This indicates the

minimum requirements of the server on which

the software is to be installed.



Localization: This indicates the languages

supported by the administration interface of the

system.

Multilingual: This indicates whether the

system's administrative interface is localized

based on individual user settings.



Multilanguage support of Blogs

Most of the Blogs have Multilanguage feature

which enables Web Blogs to be published in

different languages.

In general, terms Internationalization (i18n) and

Localizations (l10n) are used to cover all issues

related to Multilanguage feature.



Multilanguage support of Blogs

For easy use Internationalization and

Localizations, i18n and l10n are used:

i18n = I (nternationalizatio) n

l10n = l (ocalizatio) n



Multilanguage support of Blogs using

GNU Gettext Utility

GNU Gettext Utility is the mostly used technique

used by open source softwares to support

Multilanguage feature.

If a blog software you want to use does not

support a language you desired than you can

translate it quickly using Rosetta, if the

Multilanguage feature is based on GNU’s

Gettext utility. www.launchpad.net



Web Blog Translation using Rosetta




Web Blog Translation using Rosetta



Data Storage: This indicates the type of the

Data Storage of the Web Blog Software.

•Flat File

•Data File

•Database



Max. Weblogs: This number indicates the

maximum number of weblogs (channel of

postings) that the system can manage through

a single installed administrative interface.

Mutiple Sites: This indicates whether the

system can manage weblogs across multiple

sites.



Post Ordering: This indicates the available

methods for ordering the display of posts on the

site.

•Descending

•Ascending

•Alphabetical

•Category



Categories: This indicates whether the system

allows posts to be classified by categories.

•No

•Single

•Multiple

Subcategories: This indicates whether a

system allows subcategories to be created in a

hierarchy.



Keywords: This indicates whether the system

allows keywords to be associated by a post.

Post Editor: This indicates the type of editor

used to edit the primary post field.

•Textarea

•HTML

•Java

•Plugin Based



Draft Mode: This indicates whether the system

supports submitting unpublished drafts of posts.

‘Yes+’ indicates that there are additional post

statuses beyond published and draft.

Post API Support: This indicates which

blogging APIs the system supports.

•Blogger

•MetaWeblog

•MovableType

•b2

•Atom



Post Moderation: This indicates whether it is

possible to require editor- or administrative-level

approval of a post before it is published to the

site.

Post Pings: This indicates whether the system

will "ping" any number of pre-designated URLs

using XMLRPC to indicate that a new post has

been published to the site.



PINGING – Update other web sites, search

engines that your blog updated.

Recommendation

http://pingomatic.com

Ping-O-Matic is a service to update different

search engines that your blog has updated.

We regularly check downstream services to

make sure that they're legit and still work.



RSS Output: RSS the system will produce for

syndication, if any.

Atom Output: Atom output another technology

that is used for syndication. It is provided and

consumed by most Blog Softwares.



Comment Spam: This indicates the methods

available to prevent comment spam.

Login, Filtering, Captcha, Duplicate,

Ipban, Userban, Moderate, Blacklistdelay,

Shutoff, Redirection, Linkcount, Massedit



Templates : Web Blogs can be presented

differently based on Templates.

Template Storage: Templates are stored and

retrieved in format of:

•Flat File

•PHP File

•Database



User Security: This indicates the method used

to differentiate the permissions of different

users.

•Numeric levels

•Permission groups

•Single user

•User permissions



RSS Aggregator: This indicates the extent to

which the system can consume RSS from other

sites.

Plugins/Extensions: This indiates the method

most acceptable by the developers by which

additional functionality can be added to the

base system.

•Drop-in

•Push-button



Imports From: Blog Softwares can import

content from another Blog Resource. Importing

from "RSS Feeds" indicates that the system can

import from an existing RSS feed, rather than

importing the data natively. This allows

importing from any system that suports RSS

output, but may not import things such as user

accounts, comments, and other unpublished

data.



User Profiles: This indicates the detail allowed

in user profiles for the system.

•No

•Simple

•Custom



Skin Switch: Blog softwares can provide Admin

interface that allows to switch the template of

Web Blog to new one by one-two clicks.

Cross-post: If Web Blog system support cross

post then a user can apply a single post to more

than one weblog simultaneously.

Password Posts: With this featore posts can

be protected so that only those visitors that

know the correct password may read them.



Blog By Email: Users can add new posts to the

Blog by sending email to the email address

defined previously.

Blogging by SMS: Users can post a Post to

their Web blog using SMS.

Recommendation:

http://letmeparty.com (free)



Blogging by Microsoft Word 2007: Users can

post a Post to their Web blog using Microsoft

Word 2007.

Useful sources for Web Bloggers

Comparison of Web Blog Softwares

http://www.weblogmatrix.org

Demo site for almost all web blog softwares

http://www.opensourcecms.com

Translator for GNU Gettext based softwares - Rosetta

http://launchpad.net

Blogging using SMS - LetMeParty

http://letmeparty.com

Registering your Web blog for Blog Search Engines – Pingomatic

http://pingomatic.com


References

http://www.weblogmatrix.org

http://www.opensourcecms.com

Wikipedia http://www.wikipedia.org

Blogware: http://www.blogware.org

Wordpress: http://www.wordpress.org

Asymptomatic: http://www.asymptomatic.net


http://www.weblogmatrix.org/

http://www.wikipedia.org/

http://www.blogware.org/

http://www.wordpress.org/

http://www.asymptomatic.net/

Conclusion

During the presentation Web Blogs are defined using definitions of

well known companies. The general types and features of Web

blogs also explained by comparing four major Web Blog softwares.

Applications, web sites that are thought to be useful for blogger are

also introduces generally.


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