How To Set Up A Blog On A Regular Website
Upon scanning my Google Analytics report recently for this blog, I found a few people searching for instructions on setting up a blog on a regular website. The short answer to this question is that it really isn't much different than if you were to set up the blog's homepage as also being your website's homepage.
You need to create a subdirectory under the root directory of your domain. In this subdirectory, you will install your blogging platform. Then, on either just your home page, or possibly on all of your non-blog web pages, you should have a link to the blog's main page.
A simple example of this at my Curry Elvis website. The main page is the only non-journal (non-blog) page on the site. It links to a the main page (index.html) of the sub-directory "wordpress".
On my Chameleon Integration hubsite, I use the subdirectory name "blogs" as the parent to several more subdirectories. Each of these subdirectories has a short-form name of the blog it represents. For example, my older Vegetarian Fusion cooking blog has the URI of /blogs/vegfusion/.
The sub-directory name is really up to you. Common names are "blog", "journal", "diary", "words", "letters". Also in use are the names of blogging platforms, or the year. It all depends on what you need for a particular website.
If you want a bit more detail on setting up a blog on your own domain, you may want to read my article Introduction To Blogging - Part 3b: Setting Up A Blog On A Private Domain, at EzineArticles.com. It does not have technical details, and assumes you don't yet have a domain name, but it may be helpful.
If you want specific instructions, I'd recommend those that come with your blogging platform. Most of the popular platforms provide the necessary documentation. If you're really stuck and don't know what to do, drop me an email at rdash001-at-yahoo-dot-ca. I may be able to help, but I can't necessarily respond immediately.
(c) Copyright: 2006-present, Raj Kumar Dash, http://blogspinner.countwordula.com/
Technorati Tags: blogspinner, blogging, pro blogging, multi blogs, blog platform
You need to create a subdirectory under the root directory of your domain. In this subdirectory, you will install your blogging platform. Then, on either just your home page, or possibly on all of your non-blog web pages, you should have a link to the blog's main page.
A simple example of this at my Curry Elvis website. The main page is the only non-journal (non-blog) page on the site. It links to a the main page (index.html) of the sub-directory "wordpress".
On my Chameleon Integration hubsite, I use the subdirectory name "blogs" as the parent to several more subdirectories. Each of these subdirectories has a short-form name of the blog it represents. For example, my older Vegetarian Fusion cooking blog has the URI of /blogs/vegfusion/.
The sub-directory name is really up to you. Common names are "blog", "journal", "diary", "words", "letters". Also in use are the names of blogging platforms, or the year. It all depends on what you need for a particular website.
If you want a bit more detail on setting up a blog on your own domain, you may want to read my article Introduction To Blogging - Part 3b: Setting Up A Blog On A Private Domain, at EzineArticles.com. It does not have technical details, and assumes you don't yet have a domain name, but it may be helpful.
If you want specific instructions, I'd recommend those that come with your blogging platform. Most of the popular platforms provide the necessary documentation. If you're really stuck and don't know what to do, drop me an email at rdash001-at-yahoo-dot-ca. I may be able to help, but I can't necessarily respond immediately.
(c) Copyright: 2006-present, Raj Kumar Dash, http://blogspinner.countwordula.com/
Technorati Tags: blogspinner, blogging, pro blogging, multi blogs, blog platform
