Starting A Blog

by Jimmy Akin on February 28, 2005

Down yonder, a commenter writes:

Congrats, buddy [on your fixed blogiversary]! You have been an inspiration to me for a long time, and now I have been inspired to start my own blog concerning Christianity and the arts (esp. Catholicism and Visual arts).

Any advice?

Yes, three pieces:

READ THIS SERIES OF ARTICLES (Cowboy hat tip: Southern Appeal)
Get a real blog that has permalinks and automated archives, not one you design yourself. (Hear me, In Light Of The Law?)
Be sure to blogroll me and link to me a lot. Thanks much!

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Tim J.

Hey, thanks alot! I will make sure to do things the right way when I do start up. I am "technologically challenged", though, so I will have to learn as I go.

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LawfulGood

LOL! Yes. Atom is just fine. :)

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Ed Peters

Hi Jimmy! Your decision to use little ole yours truly as a whipping boy example of a bad blog set up has, ironically, sent about, oh, a hundred people over my way to day! Sorry to be such a bad example. I am a worry to my friends. Best, edp.

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Jeff Tan

Thanks for the tips! I've also started a new blog just 2 weeks ago, but I haven't linked to your posts as yet. I'll fix that soon.

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Publius

Jeff,
Thanks.

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Jeff Miller

Publius,
Atom feeds are good enough and normally when people mention RSS feeds that includes Atom. This was not as true initially, but now almost every aggregator supports the Atom format.

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