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What are the most popular blogging platforms? What do you use & why?
Sorry, if I asked several questions at once. I want to start a blog and would like to know which blog publishing platform/hosting I should use.
Thanks a bunch =D
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The one I use is wordpress. I have a personal blog on wordpress.com - which provides you with absolutely everything you could imaginably believe for free and you don't have to go to the hassle of setting it up on your own server. There is also a version you can download from wordpress.org and then you can host it on your own server. The huge advantage to wordpress is that it is being constantly updated and any function you can think you might need has probably already been created by someone else in the form of plugins. Therefore it makes it very extendable.
There is also blogger by google and a whole host of other ones - check out a survey done on problogger - an incredibly useful site for this kind of thing - http://www.problogger.net/archives/2006/01/18/blog-platforms-poll-results/
There is also blogger by google and a whole host of other ones - check out a survey done on problogger - an incredibly useful site for this kind of thing - http://www.problogger.net/archives/2006/01/18/blog-platforms-poll-results/
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Thanks for the advice.
I've been using blogger.com for my personal blog for a couple of years because, to be honest, it was the first one I came across. Since then, I've worked for many companies that preferred wordpress.com because it could be adapted better, plus there are a lot more options available in comparison to blogger. For example, I'm currently working for a company that switched from blogger to wordpress - they've already seen a remarkable difference in the layout and the page views. I'm not sure if that has anything to do with the site, itself, but I thought that was a notable reason to switch.
Same with me, jennhollowell! I still have my blogger setup, but "graduated" (I call it) to wordpress. I copy posts from one to the other. I ran into problems on blogger, and found in the Google Group for blogger that other users were having the exact same problems. Google failed to address these weird problems after saying things like "Thanks for pointing that out. We'll get back to you." (Yeah, right.)
Yes, I was able to rewrite my blogger blog freely - all the html and css - to look EXACTLY like the rest of my website. But wordpress provides excellent support in a warm and friendly atmosphere, is easy to use, and looks quite professional. Much space available, and you can add "static" pages to make it an entire website on its own. Ask my clients.
Yes, I was able to rewrite my blogger blog freely - all the html and css - to look EXACTLY like the rest of my website. But wordpress provides excellent support in a warm and friendly atmosphere, is easy to use, and looks quite professional. Much space available, and you can add "static" pages to make it an entire website on its own. Ask my clients.
I run three different blogs, all on Blogger. For awhile I did run my own blog from a server in my basement, but recently shut that down because it was just too much work. I picked Blogger at the time because it seemed easiest to test the waters. I was glad when Google started offering domain forwarding so I can have a real name instead of something.blogspot.com.
Now that I'm doing fairly well with the blogs, I do wish I'd gone with Wordpress. There are just far more options available. Best for me would have been using the Wordpress install offered by my hosting provider so I could have just maintained everything myself.
Now that I'm doing fairly well with the blogs, I do wish I'd gone with Wordpress. There are just far more options available. Best for me would have been using the Wordpress install offered by my hosting provider so I could have just maintained everything myself.
source(s):
http://www.shakespearegeek.com, http://www.commutesmarter.com, http://duanesbrain.blogspot.com
No doubt you can see the similarity of structure and layout, even though the content is markedly different.
http://www.shakespearegeek.com, http://www.commutesmarter.com, http://duanesbrain.blogspot.com
No doubt you can see the similarity of structure and layout, even though the content is markedly different.
Actually, it's quite easy to migrate a blog (or three blogs, in your case) from Blogger to a hosted install of Wordpress.
http://underscorebleach.net/jotsheet/2006/05/move-blogger-to-wordpress
http://underscorebleach.net/jotsheet/2006/05/move-blogger-to-wordpress
I have used Wordpress for years with amazing success. The amount of control is wonderful and so far it has scaled well from a starter site all the way to thousands of hits a day.
Check out some of the amazing things you can do with the site at wordpress.com. You can also check out some of the differences you can look at a site I put together:
A site I put up for an artist friend of mine:
http://www.thesadiesmith.com
My site (going through some staffing changes so no major updates in awhile but we do peak at about 2,000 hits a day):
http://www.assortednerdery.com
Check out some of the amazing things you can do with the site at wordpress.com. You can also check out some of the differences you can look at a site I put together:
A site I put up for an artist friend of mine:
http://www.thesadiesmith.com
My site (going through some staffing changes so no major updates in awhile but we do peak at about 2,000 hits a day):
http://www.assortednerdery.com
Platforms? Wordpress, Movable Type and Blogger.
What do I use?
For my personal blogs: Tumblr:
http://insomniaccoder.com
http://pedrovera.com
http://pedrojavier.org
For my stand-alone server: Wordpress 2.7
http://veraperez.com
Honorable mention: Blogger.
Why tumblr? For the kind of writing that I do, Tumblr gives me more variety while at the same time being completely painless to setup and run.
The only reason I still use Wordpress is because my ad network requires a Wordpress plugin, otherwise my last WP site would be running Tumblr over a year ago. A secondary reason is as a live backup of the most active of my Tumblr sites. WP has a plugin that polls my Tumblr RSS feeds and imports each new article into my WP install.
As for Blogspot/Blogger, it is fantastic, but for what I am doing, Tumblr is slightly better. I would not hesitate to recommend Blogspot/Blogger to anyone that wants a free blog with close to full control of its template and behavior.
What do I use?
For my personal blogs: Tumblr:
http://insomniaccoder.com
http://pedrovera.com
http://pedrojavier.org
For my stand-alone server: Wordpress 2.7
http://veraperez.com
Honorable mention: Blogger.
Why tumblr? For the kind of writing that I do, Tumblr gives me more variety while at the same time being completely painless to setup and run.
The only reason I still use Wordpress is because my ad network requires a Wordpress plugin, otherwise my last WP site would be running Tumblr over a year ago. A secondary reason is as a live backup of the most active of my Tumblr sites. WP has a plugin that polls my Tumblr RSS feeds and imports each new article into my WP install.
As for Blogspot/Blogger, it is fantastic, but for what I am doing, Tumblr is slightly better. I would not hesitate to recommend Blogspot/Blogger to anyone that wants a free blog with close to full control of its template and behavior.
I use Google, Multiply & Propellor.
Google gets more acknowledgment, Multiply is homey and growing, Propellor is more for article linkage within your group but a sound platform.
Google gets more acknowledgment, Multiply is homey and growing, Propellor is more for article linkage within your group but a sound platform.
if you want free service go for blogger.com, if you want to use your own domain name and hosting then use wordpress.org
wordpress. use domain name. it is cool and not that expensive really to start your own brand.
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