How to Blog About your Sailing Trip: The Return of the Tips
Welcome to the next episode of the blog saga. So now that you have read the first installment, improperly titled “How to” because “why to” are terrible search terms, you will actually learn how to blog about your trip! Look out Christmas, you may have the market cornered on anticipation but not for long.
You can start by rejoicing in the fact that you do not have to make your own website. And what I mean by that is that you do not have to speak R2D2 to be able to script your own website. Instead you can use something called a content management system. An example of this is WordPress, the website that I use to publish my own blog.
Users of blogging content management systems sign up with a site for free and set up their blogs. Using the tools that the management system gives them, they can post their information on the internet. It makes it incredibly simple to start your own website where you can publish just about whatever you want. Scary but neat. the Yin and the Yang. The apple and the orange. The hippopotmus and the duck. Whatever you want to call it.
Click here to sign up for a free WordPress account.
Once you have an account there are lots of different things that you can do. For example you can post pictures of your trip, videos, music, interviews with whales, and of course recordings of insane rants that you went on when after you caught the scurvy because you didn’t bring enough fruit.
Important sailing tip #216, remember to bring enough fruit so you don’t catch the scurvy. You and your shipmates already bother each other enough, insanity won’t help anything.
Rumor has it, you will have a lot of free time out there so you can get pretty creative with your blog and there are a lot of different things that you will discover with it. It will also be interesting for you to hear back from people what they think about your trip. This blog will open up your trip to anyone who stumbles upon it on the internet. People can comment directly on your blog and you may find yourself in a conversation with someone who has been where you are going. Maybe they will give you some tips on different things to check out while you are there. Who knows?
Good luck and stay tuned to the blog that’s more reflexive than Jay-Z. And thanks to the anonymity of the computer screen, just as cocky. Oh wait my real-life friends actually read this. My cover is blown.
