Internet

Screenshot of the blog of Abahali baseMjondolo - a grassroots movement of shack dwellers.

A blog is a type of website that is very easy to publish and to update.

This section will take you through the stages involved in building a website, starting with analysing your audience and goals, then deciding how to structure your website, how to get it hosted and how to set up your own website address or domain.

You'll learn about the website development process, about the important issue of maintenance, and about keeping your content fresh in order to keep people visiting your site.

We have included downloads and guides for the following tools to help you create your website.

Unlike traditional media, the internet isn't a one-way channel, but a participatory space. Communicating on the internet is about engagement, getting people involved. If you do it right, people will become advocates for your message and start promoting it themselves.

This guide to Anonymous Blogging was written by Global Voices.

Global Voices provides the following disclaimer;

A Content Management System (CMS) is a piece of software that enables you to create dynamic websites. This can be useful if you want to create a community or be able to update your site easily. There are many different CMS systems available; we've chosen three which you can use for setting up a dynamic websites; SPIP, Joomla, Wordpress and Drupal.

Set up a Wordpress blog. If you would like to set up your own website that can be regularly updated with new ideas and descriptions of events in a chronological order, it doesn't get much easier than using Wordpress.com.This guide takes you through every step you need to follow to set up a blog using Wordpress and make simple modifications to the way it looks. Get blogging! This guide makes it easy!