I don't know what I'm doing. Help an old woman, please.
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I’m 68 years old, just online for the first time, and I don’t know what I’m doing! I don’t want to write a blog, I just want to read some. I don’t understand any of your terms! What is a Widget? Where is my sidebar? Why do I have a sidebar? I don’t see any bubble, I don’t see any grid. I don’t have a blog! Are you reading this now??
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Ok, Ok, Ok. Take a deep breath and I’ll see if I can help you. If you go to my website, you’ll see a search box and a few other boxes that say “Recent Posts”, “Archives”, and “Categories”. Those are wigets and they are in the sidebar. Since you don’t have a blog, you really don’t need to worry about any of this, but if you do want a blog at some point, wigets will add additional functionality to your blog and they’ll be put in the sidebar. Does this make sense?
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What actual difficulty are you having reading blogs? There are several billion of them now. Figure out a topic you want to read, and go to the web page that shows that tag, like http://wordpress.com/tag/cthulhu or whatever.
If you dont’ want to create a blog, don’t worry about terms for building blogs. You don’t have a blog, so it doesn’t apply. It’s like, if you just want to ride the subway, why would you read a train engineering report?
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Reading a blog is just like reading any web site – just put together a bit different than some web sites (easy to see the most recent articles) – many news sites are really blog software – so you have probably been reading blogs for some time
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