Beginner Intro: What blogging platform to choose?
Written by tmdd on July 21, 2008
So on our last post we hopefully gave you some encouragement and you’ve decided to start a blog. Now which blogging platform should you choose?
You have some options here:
You can choose one of the free ones, and here you have a whole range of offers like Wordpress.com, Blogger.com, LiveJournal.com, Blog.com and you can search google for more if you want. Any of those sites allow you to quickly register and have a blog going in less than 5 minutes, all sites also have extensive help and support and overall it’s really very simple.
The other option is to go for a blog hosted on your own webspace and with your own domain. This will set you back about $5 or $10 per month for hosting and another $10 per year for a domain name. But once you have your own hosting account you can install from a whole plethora of blogging platforms, content management systems, forums, wikis, simple HTML sites, anything you want. Most of the times you can install those applications on your webspace just by clicking a couple of menu options on the hosts administration panel. Read the rest of this entry »
Beginner Intro: Blogging
Written by tmdd on July 10, 2008
When you’re just starting to get into the online business you’ll pretty soon get overwhelmed by the amount of information and offers, tons of different ways to make it, and each promising more than the other. Now it’s very important that you take action as soon as possible and don’t get stuck in reading and researching everything. Taking action can sometimes be hard, and a lot of people never even make it through this phase, so in my opinion the first thing you should do is start a blog immediately.
If you have the gift of writing, whatever it may be about, poems, stories, lyrics, recipes, game or product reviews, a personal diary, etc, then you should have no problems starting a blog right now and continue posting to your blog with relative frequency. If you don’t have the gift of writing, well, i would recommend you start a blog anyway and try it out for a month or two. Maybe with time you’ll learn to enjoy blogging, like millions of others. A blog is extremely easy to start, it’s completely free and you can be blogging in less than 5m.
What will you blog about? Read the rest of this entry »