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How to Start a Blog Using Web Development?

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Mohit Patil
January 19, 2016


Mohit Patil
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When creating a blog website, there are a few things that you would like to customize in your own way. While free CMS applications do allow a plethora of customization options for designing your own blog site, a full-fledged personalization option is not available. And, to make your website an omni-channel powerhouse, you need to direct your blog in your own way and take advantage of all the online available technologies. So, the topic that we are hovering around here is how to start a blog using web development?

Businesses are constantly looking for ways to optimize their growth and the transformation from offline to online is one big step. The next big step is to know how to use this new platform to establish that same business and create a larger brand exposure.

So, how to start a blog using web development? Follow the steps below:

Step 1: Idea and Topic Generation

You blog needs to amaze and enthrall your audience. Therefore, irrelevant to what your business is, it needs to be presented in an interesting and inspirational way. Think of a niche and stick to it to stand out from the crowd.

Step 2: Choose a blogging provider

Whichever suits your needs best - Wordpress, Blogger, Tumblr – go for it. The best thing is most of the platforms are either free or provide service on a trial basis. Creating your blog from scratch means you are going to depend very much on the platform. Therefore, make sure you are comfortable using it and plan what to put on it.

Step 3: Hire a web development firm/professional

Taking help of web development from the initiation stage is a smart step. There will be so many instances where you need to take a decision: which theme you need for your business, are you looking for a responsive or an adaptive design, where do you want the “Call to Action, Hovering social media buttons or fixed ones, etc. This is where you need to take informed decisions and only experience web development groups can help with that.

 If you are a startup and finance is a constraint, go for a freelance web development professional as they are less costly. On the contrary, if you are a well-established megacorp, your approach needs to be different. Settle only with high end web development firms that can deploy talented professionals who will understand your business and will be available 24/7 to provide with your website development assistance.

Step 4: Select domain name, hosting, and start writing

Think of a name, think of a hosting provider, purchase them and start writing. Get rid of all those “Lorem Ipsum” as soon as possible and work with original contents. This will help better with the designing part and will also overcome future fallacies related to view and appearance. Take opinion of the expert developers that you have hired as they are in the business and know which hosting and domain companies are serving well in the market.

Not just the beginning, a business blog requires significant changes from time to time. The necessary alterations to backend systems are lengthy and complicated tasks. The ability to manage templates, encounter performance issues,  and deal with downtime and regular maintenance is no walk in the park. Web development is doubtlessly a need in today’s world. Using it, you can not only create a blog easily, it will be fast, easy-to-use, user-friendly, and will stand out from the crowd. So, find the right firm/freelancer and get started with your blog without giving a second thought.


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