Why Do I Blog?
I’ve seen this question floating around the blog-o-sphere for several months now. It’s what’s called a meme. One blogger writes a post that addresses a certain question or subject, then they pass it on to five others to do the same. Now it’s my turn as Shane over at Zoomstart has tagged me.
So, why do I blog?
This question has come up in my own mind occasionally. I think my reasons are ever-changing actually. Here are a few things that led up to me blogging…..
- After flipping through Dave Taylor’s, Creating Cool Websites, I decided that I wanted to learn how to build a site from scratch. I immediately built myself a homepage (embarassing), and was instantly hooked on trying to create something on the computer…..that anyone could access. I think I was looking at someones Blogger site and decided that looked interesting, so I checked it out!
- I set up a blog and linked it to my homepage. After I played with blogger for a while, I learned of Wordpress.com, and liked it much better, except for the fact that you couldn’t edit the CSS.
- After keeping my personal Wordpress.com site going for a few months, with posts that no one would find interesting other than myself and maybe my immediate family, I decided to try and install Wordpress on my own hosting plan.
- After having a hard time figuring out what I was doing, I finally realized how all the pieces fit together, and realizing that others had the same problems………after spending some time on the Wordpress forum. At this point I decided to write a tutorial, How To Install Wordpress with 1 and 1 Hosting. This tutorial brought a lot of traffic to my site, so I guess I was hooked from there.
As far as the question, Why Do I Blog?, I would have to say it’s because I feel like I’m sharing with others while at the same time, benefiting from it myself. I’m using it to:
- be part of a large community
- pass along information that I think might be helpful to someone else
- try and develop better writing skills
Here’s who I’m gonna pass this on to, if they may be so interested:


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