I wanted to create a blog that
a) was well laid-out and presented
b) easy to work on, edit and update
and
c) easy for visiters and followers to navigate on.
I researched a bunch of different blogging systems online- this website gave me a truckload of info.
http://www.sitepoint.com/blog-software-smackdown-review/
I decided immediately that I definitely did NOT want to work with a self-hosted blogging system. It would, for one, take far too much time to code all the features and set it up myself, so I veered more towards hosted services. At least I knew then that all the technical aspects, I didn't have to worry about and that I could get straight into setting it up, appearance wise, as well as making posts and adding pages.
Some popular hosted services blogs used came up, Blogger being one of them. Other examples I saw included TypePad and LiveJournal. Out of the three, I chose to use Blogger purely because I didn't have to pay for additional features. Another more ITGS-ey reason would be that I liked the layout in Blogger much better. It served as a much more informational, news delivery layout than the more personal, diary entry like style of LiveJournal. Also, I found the different elements in the WYSIWYG in Blogger much more varied and easier to work with.
So to sum it all up, I chose to create a hosted services blog and chose one where I didn't have to pay a monthly fee :)
a) was well laid-out and presented
b) easy to work on, edit and update
and
c) easy for visiters and followers to navigate on.
I researched a bunch of different blogging systems online- this website gave me a truckload of info.
http://www.sitepoint.com/blog-software-smackdown-review/
I decided immediately that I definitely did NOT want to work with a self-hosted blogging system. It would, for one, take far too much time to code all the features and set it up myself, so I veered more towards hosted services. At least I knew then that all the technical aspects, I didn't have to worry about and that I could get straight into setting it up, appearance wise, as well as making posts and adding pages.
Some popular hosted services blogs used came up, Blogger being one of them. Other examples I saw included TypePad and LiveJournal. Out of the three, I chose to use Blogger purely because I didn't have to pay for additional features. Another more ITGS-ey reason would be that I liked the layout in Blogger much better. It served as a much more informational, news delivery layout than the more personal, diary entry like style of LiveJournal. Also, I found the different elements in the WYSIWYG in Blogger much more varied and easier to work with.
So to sum it all up, I chose to create a hosted services blog and chose one where I didn't have to pay a monthly fee :)
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