As a newbie blogger, I like to share what was the process of making a blog like to me up until now and try to highlight important rules I’ve learned so far. There are so many good guides full of useful tips out there, so I wont repeat the topics they extensively cover.

If you think that blogging might be cool for you and are unfamiliar with the blogosphere, you will do a lot of reading to find a starting point. I did and most of guides and tips usually say the same things. In order to save a fellow pre-blogger who might end up reading this post spending unnecessarily long time and become lost in the how-to guide jungle, I will advise ProBlogger’s Blogging Tips For Beginners as a well- organized and comprehensive source. Blogosphere Jargon might be shocking to you as much as to me, so this glossary on Samizdata.net can come in handy when you need. Another important thing to do for beginner bloggers is to avoid “monetize your blog” guides until setting up the blog and beginning to post. In my experience they only distract your focus and take your precious time so slow you down on the glorious quest of setting up your blog and writing first post. After you achieve first post, you will probably have a stable-and-working-accordingly blog, so you will have plenty of time now for discovering new shores of blogging.

I learned very important lesson during this process: write down all the content (topics, categories, tags… everything) you want to blog, whenever comes it to your mind. Never mind if you are pre-blogging stage, or having dinner, walking outside, about to sleep. When I began to think whether I should have a blog, lot and lots of ideas were racing in mind and I never tried to write them down because I wasn’t even on pre-blogging stage yet. Result; I can’t remember most of them now.