Chapter 4: Blogging platforms
When the web first came along, website development was an expensive process. Many 20-year-olds who had a basic understanding of HTML — the language that web pages are written in — became very rich, and those costs were passed onto the businesses that hired them. As the web has matured, most of the tools to get a website up and running have become easy to use and cheap, or in many cases free, as you will see in this chapter.
Blogs, or web logs, were an early part of the world wide web as the internet gave people an opportunity to create online diaries. Being able to post a regular diary required tools that made it easy to publish online, hence the rise of blogging software. Over time blogging tools have evolved ...
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