Blogging - The Infrastructure

Setting up a web site is a lot of work. Besides the detail work, which I described in my article Blogging, which discusses the issues of content, structure, and attractiveness, a web site has to have an infrastructure.

• Server Space.
• Identity / Structure.
• Procedures and Utilities.

With a web site based on a Blogger blog, all of these are provided for you, and for no direct financial charge. Along with what's provided for you comes what you don't get to choose.

One item that you don't get to choose is directory structure. You organise your blog logically, by label and by title, which lets your and your readers access the content in ways relevant to you. How the content is stored is up to Blogger - this is something that you don't have to worry about (which is good), and you can't control (which is occasionally not good).

Since a blog, by tradition, is an online journal, it is organised by date, and structured by year and month. The directory structure reflects this organisation. Here's the URL of this post, Blogging - The Infrastructure

blogging.nitecruzr.net/2008/10/blogging-infrastructure.html

• blogging.nitecruzr.net - The blog URL.
• 2008 - The year of the post, when originally published.
• 10 - The month of the post, when originally published.
• blogging-infrastructure - The original title, compressed.

All that I did was setup a blog (including the name), and write a post (including the title). The URL of the post was made for me, and I can't control it. If I change the title, or the post date, the URL stays the same. This leaves me free to concentrate on what the readers see and appreciate - content, structure, and attractiveness. And that's how you get readers.

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