Creative Sunday - Own A Nice Website For Your Hive Blog (Completely free & Easy) - DIY
Hive blockchain is an excellent platform for its users, and one thing the blockchain is good at is blogging. As users on the Hive blockchain, we can agree that we have all become mini bloggers, but how about upgrading our status as bloggers to the next level? If you must do this, you do need a website.
Hive, in its primary state, is a social media-esq platform. But to blog properly, you need to have all your content in one place, so that your followers can indulge in your content and not be distracted by the noise of other users. So, a website for your blog is the right tool to become the next Chimamanda Adichie through the Hive blockchain.
But you are probably worried, creating a website is not cheap in both time and money. You need skills, a website, and a host. That shouldn't be your worry, as the Hive ecosystem of DApps has got you covered. I hereby, introduce to you, the right tool for this: @Engrave.app (available at engrave.website but currently known as dblog and available at dblog.org). With this tool, you should have your website up and running.
At the end of this tutorial, you should be able to have all your Hive blogs in one place, and finally have a website to be included in your bio. How about that? Let's begin!
First, visit Dblog.org and click on "Create Your Own Blog"
Next, log in with Hivesigner to access the dashboard (you all already know how to do this).
Now, I am logged in. Here is what the dashboard looks like (very intuitive). While in the dashboard, click on "Create new blog" to create yourself a blog page (personal blog website).
You will now be taken to the "Create new blog" page. Here, select and input your:
A: Blog name
B: Blog title
C: Blog slogan (kinda a motto for your blog)
D: Select your theme/template (basically how you want your blog to look like)
So, as shown above, I have inputted all the required details and selected a #Leofinance -looking theme as the template for my blog. It is looking good! Once done, click on "Create" to move to the next page.
Before going to the next step, note that your blog is not being hosted directly to a top-level domain such as .com, .net, etc. It is being hosted as a sub-domain under the following options: .dblog.org (default), .engave.site or .engrave.website. Just choose any that sounds good to you from the options provided.
Next, you want to select categories for your blog.
Categories will help organize your blog so that all seemingly themed posts can be found in one place. As you can see below, I have entered four (4) categories into my blog, such as " #crypto ", " #personal-finance ", " #news ", and " #business ".
I have selected these categories because they match my blog's overall theme. So, build yours based on your preferences, there are no hard or fast rules. Once you are done, click on "Continue".
Now, import your posts from your blog to the new personalized blog. Simply choose any category, and import it into it.
Preferably, select the category you write more in, as all your posts will be imported into that single category, which you will now have to manually sort out later. Or you may simply click on "finish", so that your blog is left blank and start creating new blogs afresh.
Now that I have imported my blog, my personal blog page is ready. You can simply visit https://zestimony.dblog.org or click here to view the result of this experiment.
Isn't that beautiful?
What's more?
You can simply direct people to your blog as your blog is ready for primetime. But if you have the skills and patience, you can configure search engine optimization (SEO), Google Analytics, and more. And if you need a more personalized domain, you can pay with Hive for a .com domain for your blog. However, it is a nice one so far, and for most people, this is more than enough.
Note that all I have demonstrated above can be done from your smartphone, I just prefer working with my PC.
Thanks for enjoying my #creative-Sunday article. We will meet in the comment section below!
Woow, this is a beautiful work my friend, I think this is indeed creative and special for a Sunday, well done brr and have a lovely weekend
Thanks brotherly for finding it interesting! Enjoy your Sunday as well.
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Wow, digging dip is what you are doing here👌
Learning indeed never ends
This is creative my friend, I respect your brain 🧠 oo😂😂
Good job 👍😇
Thanks Ma. I happy you enjoyed it.
the .com domain.. is it a one time payment or something like a subscription.
Normally, domains are usually renewed after a set period. Likely after a year or more.
I've not seen a one-off purchase for a domain.
@zestimony always giving us premium contents every Sunday.. Good one brother.
Thanks @prayzz
Wow @zestimony. You did great work. Your article is amazing.
Thanks dear! Hope you'll experiment it soon.
Yeah very soon.
Wow I'm actually surprised at this. This is my first of seeing this stuff. So we can actually create our own websites for our Hive content? That's actually pretty neat. It's most especially good for people that are more niche-focused. This could come in handy someday🙌
Yea. Definitely will come in handy. Thanks for visiting my blog.
Oh gush!
All these looked like simultaneous equation to me but they are worth learning. Thank you for this
Lol. You're sounding like someone who will always sleep in a maths class!
Lol. Trust me, it's easier than it seems!
Thank you so much for sharing this with us!
You don't know how much this solved my longtime puzzle. Wow!
I guess all that man has ever imagined is really in existence. Hehehe
Lol. Thanks a lot dear for finding it helpful. We're just being creative on Sundays!
Hi, would you know how to move the imported blogs from hive to dblog on a separate article category? I tried importing mine however all are moved into a single category, but I wanted to subdivide the blogs into different categories. Any idea where the setting is for this? Thanks
Okay. It is nice to see that you tried it. I must commend you.
Here is the thing. If you import your blog at first, they all move to a single category, you now have to painstakingly move each blog into your desired category.
That's quite stressful u know, but for now, that's the only way.
how can I move them once imported? I can't see the option within the site. Can you tell me where that setting is?
You will need to attempt to edit each individual post and change its category to your preferred one.
owww. I found it now. lol Thank you so much! Have a great day!
Welcome dear!
Please! I've one question for you. How are you doing it, that you're earning so much votes on your blog! In just four weeks you've grown your reputation to 63!
Please, I'll be pleased to learn from you
I think I just got lucky that most of the content I first publish were from my travel logs and maybe people liked it. Not really sure though, I just tried my best to interact on a daily basis here on hive and also explore the different communities.
That's interesting! Kudos to you!
If you want, I can create some contents that you may simply add me as a beneficiary!