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People start blogging under a variety of influences and with a variety of goals. Whatever the initial provocation, majority of bloggers either quit blogging altogether or reduce it  significantly. Some do so in six months, some in a year. Only about twenty percent of bloggers persist with blogging beyond a year. Yet at any given time, the number of bloggers and blogs is quite large: it includes a large number of those who are waiting to fall into low or no activity. There are two main reasons for frustration or boredom with blogging: One is that most of us bloggers take up this activity as a hobby; so when its initial charm recedes, we find it dull. Another big reason is that we expect too much from blogging in terms of popularity and/or money. When it does not happen, we take it as a waste of time. As we elaborated in this post on the love of blogging, one can gain a lot by way of professional reputation, expertise, personal growth, self-realisation, promotion of one's prod...

updated in September 2020 हिंदी के ब्लॉगों की डायरेक्टरी संकलित करते हुए हमें करीब एक दशक हो चुका है और हम हर वर्ष यह देखते हैं कि हिंदी के ब्लॉगर लिखते तो अच्छा हैं लेकिन अपने ब्लॉगों में रंग या चित्र डालने और अक्षरों की फॉर्मेटिंग पर बिलकुल ध्यान नहीं देते या फिर उन्हें ऐसा कर देते हैं कि केशव की यह कविता याद आने लगती है: केशव केशन अस करी जस अरिहूँ न कराहिं...  इस लेख में हमने कोशिश की है कि हिंदी ब्लॉगों में प्रायः दिखने वाली डिज़ाइन की गलतियों की तरफ आपका ध्यान आकर्षित करें ताकि आप ऐसी गलतियां न करें. यह Web design in Hindi लेख  हिंदी और अंग्रेज़ी दोनों में है.  नीचे हमने A से G तक सात चित्र दिए हैं. सब किसी न किसी ब्लॉग के स्क्रीनशॉट हैं और हर चित्र में छोटे चित्रों का समावेश किया गया है, साथ में ज़रूरी टिप्स दिए हैं. बात हमनेब्लॉग्स की की है लेकिन ये टिप्स सभी तरह की हिंदी वेबसाइट के लिए उतने ही काम के हैं.  चित्र A को देखिए.  इसके मुख्य भाग में एक ब्लॉग का स्क्रीनशॉट है, जिसमें दर्जनों विजेट (Gadget), बैज या अ...

During our survey of the blogsphere for quality blogs, we are often faced with sites infected with malware. Thanks to very effective software on our computer, we have been able to detect and block them. We had quite a number of such attacks during the ongoing compilation of the Directory of Best Hindi Blogs and so comes this post. To our bloggers who are not technically oriented and who do not wish to invest thousands of rupees on paid anti-virus programs, we are recommending here four FREE anti-virus programs. Of these, the Microsoft Security Essentials comes free if you have genuine Windows installed on your computer / laptop. Otherwise you can download it from here:  Microsoft Security Essentials

This post is part of a series on web hosting and domain names . We keep updating these posts. This posts tries to practically show how website owners (especially bloggers on free platforms) can benefit from professional website hosting. The term 'website' includes all types of sites including blogs. Should I have an independent identity or place my blog on a separate web host or both? We’ll settle the hosting issue first. Blogger and Wordpress – also supported by third-party themes, plugins and widgets - provide enough design and hosting functionalities on blogs hosted on their servers. So, we will advise you to keep hosting your blog on their servers, unless you want to do one or more of these on your blog: maintain the blog on a long term and build a brand around it; promote yourself as a budding or established celebrity or expert; sell products or services through it; give it a very customized look and want to keep changing it; add a lot of matter that w...

How website domain names and hosts work In a previous post, we discussed website domain names . OK, all websites need to have a domain name [web address] so that people can find them. But where does the domain sit and how a visitor gets to browse it? What are the ways to make it secure and big and prominent? That takes us to website hosting (or simply web hosting), which is the topic of this post. This series of posts are regularly updated. In these posts, we use the term 'website' to include all types of sites including blogs. Who hosts my blog xyz.blogspot.com? Google Inc., the owner of the Blogger platform, has placed your blog ‘xyz.blogspot.com’ on their servers. Similarly, xyz.wordpress.com is hosted on Wordpress servers. Google does not charge anything from me. If I create a blog xyz.com and ask Google to host it, will it host it free? There are web hosting companies [e.g. Bluehost.com ] that will host your blog / website but charge you for that. How is ...

This post is part of a series on web hosting and related matters. We keep updating these posts. This posts deals exclusively with website domain names. The term 'website' includes all types of sites including blogs. How to create a website? How do I maintain a self-hosted blog? How can I have a blog with a name independent of suffixes like .wordpress.com ? Can I change my existing website? I am stuck with a blog on a free platform, what do I do? We keep encountering such questions. Hope, at the end of this series, you will have answers to all such questions. What is a domain name? The domain name is the name by which a website is known. It is the website's address on the vast network called the World Wide Web or the web . The domain name of ITB website is www.indiantopblogs.com . As we all have unique addresses of our homes and offices, all websites have a unique domain name. My blog is on Blogger and has domain name xyz.blogspot.com. Am I right? xyz is a s...

by Indian Top Blogs This is the second post in the archiving series. You can see here the first post on blog archiving . If you have landed here directly, we'd recommend that you read that post before reading the present one. Displaying blog archives: keep it simple yet effective You can display archives on the blog in many ways. Some bloggers choose to keep a separate page for archives and put individual posts manually on this page. But this is seldom the most efficient way of managing and displaying archives.  Archive display is better done using an automated system, i.e. by using a widget. We list below the most common ways in which archives are displayed on blogs: a. A box stating ‘archives’ or ‘select month’ or something like that. When you click on it, you get a drop-down list. This saves space and is very unobtrusive. However, the list collapses after you click on a link in the list, and you need to re-open the list. Many visitors find this need for rep...