answers to FAQ

[Kiran Chava]

don't claim I am write in answering, but I tried to answer some of
the questions.

Suggestion: Can we setup a shared blog and write there? So if somebody
feels we are spamming mailboxes, we can escape!

FAQ 1. Basic Blog related questions

1. What is a Blog?

Answer: There are lot of definitions floationg around in air. One
of them is "A short form for weblog, a personal journal published on
the Web. Blogs frequently include philosophical reflections, opinions
on the Internet and social issues, and provide a "log" of the author's
favorite web links. Blogs are usually presented in journal style with
a new entry each day.
from www.fkcc.edu/links/library/lis2004/glossary.htm"

2. What are the different blog hosts available?

Answer: There are lot! Some of them are
a) http://spaces.msn.com
b) http://blogger.com
c) http://360.yahoo.com
d) http://rediffblogs.com

3. How to get a Blogger account?

Answer: It is very much similar to getting a mail account. Go to your
favourite blogger site and then signup to create an accont for you.

4. Will my blogger account expire if I didnot use it for a long
time?

Answer:

5. How to post into a Blog?

Answer: It is very easy. Minor differences exists among different blog
sites,
These tips might help you
a) create a blog account
b) create a blog, if required by the site u use.
c) create an entry/ make a post/ .... and the post that's it u are
done.
TODO: elaborate this to explain each blog providers individully.

6. How to comment for a Blog?
Answer: Click on some thing like that "commet", "post a commnet",
....and the write ur openion and the click on "ok"/ "submit"

7. Do I need to have an account to post a comment?

Answer: It depends,
If the blog u are reading allows ananymous comments u can go ahead
and comment, otherwise u need to have an account.

8. What can I write in a blog?

Answer: You can write anything! But you will read only what is
interesting to you! Like that, remember your readers will also read
whatever is interesting to them.

9. Who will read my blog?

Answer: Whoever interests in "what is written" in your blog will read,
whey they know it was written there!
But ideally anybody can read your blog if it is a public blog, and
only restricted people can read if settings are so, or only u can ead
it, if it is a private blog!

10. How to get visitors to my blog?
TODO

FAQ 2. Basic "Telugu Blog" related questions.

1. What is a "Telugu Blog"?
Answer: If you write in "Telugu" language (with telugu script?) in
your blog, then that is a "Telugu Blog".

2. Why a Telugu Blog

Answer: TODO

3. How much it costs for me to setup a "Telugu Blog"?

Answer: ZERO, other than paying for your surfing!

4. What is Unicode?

Answer: Computer understands only zero's and one's. So to make it
understand we need to encode our language in zero's and one's.
Previous to Unicode people used to have different encoding schems for
different languages, and many times different encoding schems for same
language (like we, telugus have for eenadu, andhrajyothy,
vaarttha,.....) .
This created much problem to both users and software developers.
Unicode tries to solve this problem by having a unique encoding which
covers all the languages / symbols (like yahoo smiles, traffic
symbols, ) even scripts which never used by common people are also
supported, even music symbols are encoded uniquely !

So For simplicity Unicode is an encoding to cover all the scripts of
world.

5. Why Unicode only? why not my own format?
Answer: Because Computers can better understand unicode. There are
many applications which support unicode! The list is very big and
growing day by day, but a few applications for your knowledge
1. Notepad
2. Internet Explorer 6 or above
3. yudit
4. firefox on windows XP (2000?)
5. Netscape on windows XP
6. Front page
7. Microsoft office (including word, spreadsheet, one note, outlook,
etc..)

6. Which Blog Hosts allow me to post in Telugu?
Answer: There may be more but the following will allow to post in
Telugu
a) http://spaces.msn.com
b) http://blogger.com
c) http://360.yahoo.com
d) http://rediffblogs.com

7. How to Post in Telugu?

8. How can I read the socalled "Telugu Blog"?

9. Which fonts I need to buy for writing a "Telugu Blog?"
Answer: No You don't need to buy any fonts!

10. What are the fonts available for "Telugu" with Unicode support?
1. gauthami
2. pothana2000
3. vemana
4. akruti

FAQ 3. Advanced Blog related questions

1. Can I change the URL of my Blog?
2. How to put photos in a Blog?
3. I have Posted an article through email, but the blog did not get
updated, Why?
4. Do I need to have an account to post a comment?
5. Is there any way to post the images through email as attachments?

6. How can my blog get a better rank in Google?
7. How to setup a blog on my own domain?

FAQ 4. Advanced "Telugu Blog" related questions.
1) How to tweak My Telugu Blog.

Thanks and Regards,
Kiran Kumar Chava

[Kamesh]

Hi,

>> Can we setup a shared blog and write there? So if somebody feels we are spamming mailboxes, we can escape!

That's a good idea. In that case we could share the password and every body can try to modify it when ever they feel like.

Question : Why a Telugu Blog ?
Answer : Simple.. Because we love Telugu and would like to see people read and write in Telugu. Many of us have this urge to read other content (Like Telugu Literature both prose and poetry, Others views on varied subjects in Telugu) apart from daily news in Telugu. To put it in other way, there's a difference between reading something in Telugu and reading it in other Languages (mainly English). The Sweetness and Subtelty of Telugu is hard to get in other languages and by the way don't we all know that "Desha Bhasha Landu Telugu Bhasha Lessa".

Question : How to get visitors to my blog?
Answer : Well, this mainly depends on how good your blog is. It also depends on the following
1) If your Blog is good enough then people will automatically drop by.
2) It also depends on How often you add content in your Blog and How varied your content is.
3) Dont forget to network among fellow Bloggers and add links to their blogs. You could also ask your fellow Bloggers to reciprocate in kind by adding your link to their blogs. This enhances your visibility and theirs as well.

Question : How to tweak My Telugu Blog.
Answer : TO DO

I will be adding somemore later if possible..

Best Regards,
Kamesh.

--
"Hacking is the clever circumvention of imposed limits, whether those limits are imposed by your government, your own personality,
or the laws of Physics." -- St. Jude

[Pradeep Makineni]

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(MTech CSE)
National Institute of Technology, Suratkal .