In advance of the Outer Banks Blog Summit I thought I would put together some links for those interested in either starting a blog or learning more about blogging basics.
Truly free blogging sites.
- Blogger. com Home of Google's free blogspot.com blogs
- Wordpress.com Home of free wordpress blog and blogging software.
Typepad is one of the foremost paid blogging services combining flexible software and a hosting service.
Blogging basics, HTML, CSS and blog design info
- w3schools.com CSS Tutorial An excellent site for an introduciton to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) the new way to format HTML This site also has tutorials on HTML, Java script and other web building tools.
- Photoshopsupport.com Blog design tutorial witth an excellent set of tips and web sites that can help with blog design and graphic design in general.
- Technorati Blogging 101 Great tips from the foremost blog monitoring site
- Blog Writing: How to Write a Blog from about.com
- Daily Blog Tips offers a host of tips and links for all levels of bloggers. Try Blogging Basics search for starters
- ProBlogger discusses branding, Blogging for Beginners, even What is a blog and Lessons Learned
Legal and conduct issues
- Electronic Frontier Foundation EFF offers a series of brief pieces that can help you understand the legalities of blogging from libel to copyright law. Bloggers have rights. Bloggees have rights as well. Be informed.
- Code of Conduct Bill O'Reilly's suggested CoC for bloggers and particularly for anonymous comments.
- Plagarism Today discusses copying and copyright issues
- Excellent discussion of blog conduct from Write Technology
Resources for Real Estate bloggers
- RealEstate Tomato Blog explains some common misconceptions
- More misconceptions from houseblogger.com
- Real Estate Business Success offers tips on Listings on blogs and on blogging communities