1. Blogs made simple English 490/590 Winter 2006

2. A what? A diary that happens to be online. The term "weblog" was coined by Jorn Barger on 17 December 1997. The shorter version, "blog," was coined by Peter Merholz, who, in April or May of 1999, broke the word weblog into the phrase "we blog" in the sidebar of his weblogJorn Barger1997Peter Merholz1999sidebar It is not very easy to search. You can read it from start to finish, but you can’t easily zoom into what you want accurately.

3. Blogs: The elements (optional) ･ Post Date - date:time the post was published ･ Category - category the post is labeled with (can be one or more) ･ Title - main title of the post ･ Body - main content of the post ･ Trackback - links back from other sites ･ Comments - comments added by readers ･ Permalink - the URL of the full, individual article ･ Footer - usually at the bottom of the post, often showing post date/time, author, category, and stats such as number of comments or trackbacks. - from Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogs

4. Elements in action title body trackback footer category Post date

5. How a blog works using LAMP Client Web Server (Apache) 6.Sends web page Database (MySQL) Code (PHP) 3.Gets records 2.Runs code 4.Organizes records 5.Creates HTML 1.Request web page

6. A blog we can edit…