6.4. Blogs: creating a subsite to blog

A blog is a great way to share ideas or news about what’s on your mind and allows others to leave comments for a continued dialogue about your news. In this scenario we wanted to share with our guests information about us and the wedding-planning chaos. As you learn about this, think of other scenarios where you could use a blog. For example, one of the most common scenarios where I see the blog site template used is for company news. Each division creates its own blog post to share news and uses a Content Query web part (which will be discussed in the final chapter, Pulling it all together with search, My Sites, and cross-site functionality) to pull all of the latest new articles onto a central site. The point I’m trying to make is get creative with these technologies. You’ll be surprised at the many ways you can use the functionality. So let’s get started and create a blog site:

Step	Action	Result/Notes
1	Choose Site Actions > New Site.
2	Select Blog.
3	For the name enter Bride & Groom Blog. For the URL enter BnGBlog.
4	Click Create.