Help with Blogging

[mrsdrake]

I have online journals on various sites, but they don't allow advertising. Plus, I use them mostly for my personal stuff.

So I want to start a separate blog where I can talk about my experiences with advertising and making money online. I check with my web host and there are several built in blogging systems. However, I know nothing about any of them. I would love it if anyone can give me any advice on how to choose which one to use. If anyone has any experience with any of these (good or bad), I would like to hear about it.

Here's the list of available blogging systems:

* B2Evolution (from CPSkins)
* LifeType
* Nucleus
* Serendipity
* Textpattern
* WordPress (from CPSkins)
* boastMachine
* myBloggie
* B2Evolution (from cPanel)
* WordPress (from cPanel)


Thanks.

[ameastre]

Wordpress is probably the most well known and easiest to set up. However, you need to be extra vigilant about updates, because they are also more prone to being targeted by less than friendly people/bots (price of popularity). Also, creating hidden pages doesn't work (like if you manually want to link to something).

You can try out demos at opensourcecms.com to figure out which one seems like it would work for you. When you decide though, make sure you are installing the latest version. Fantastico is great, but it tends to be a little slow to update.

[mrsdrake]

You can try out demos at opensourcecms.com to figure out which one seems like it would work for you. When you decide though, make sure you are installing the latest version. Fantastico is great, but it tends to be a little slow to update.

Thanks. I will look into that.

[xxclixxx]

I've used Wordpress for a long time now and feel it's the best option. But *any* software that you install make sure you *always* update when a new version comes out that fixes security problems. The application layer (AKA scripts you install) is the #1 way to hack a website now, because it's so incredibly easy if people don't update the software.

[ismabera]

Last year I tried with Wordpress but my blog was suspended as I was promoting some business (Agloco). Than i started with
googel's blogger.com (http://email-love-story.blogspot.com) and I think it is great. Good tools, user friendly. All you need is to open googel account (email) - for free.
For my site I am using freewebs.com (http://ismabera.webs.com).

[mrsdrake]

I already have my own host and domain. I'm going to be loading the blog onto my own host.

[mrsdrake]

I've used Wordpress for a long time now and feel it's the best option. But *any* software that you install make sure you *always* update when a new version comes out that fixes security problems. The application layer (AKA scripts you install) is the #1 way to hack a website now, because it's so incredibly easy if people don't update the software.

I'm a fanatic about updating everything.

Thanks for the advice though.

[getbetterhealth]

Maybe I'm missing something, but blogger.com--not on your list--seems to be a very viable system. I have all my blogs there, and once set up, I can update them with the Scribefire download for Firefox. That makes my life very easy. I'm doing exactly what you're talking about--blogging my musings about internet marketing, with ads and all.

[mrsdrake]

Maybe I'm missing something, but blogger.com--not on your list--seems to be a very viable system. I have all my blogs there, and once set up, I can update them with the Scribefire download for Firefox. That makes my life very easy. I'm doing exactly what you're talking about--blogging my musings about internet marketing, with ads and all.

The ones on my list were the ones offered by my web host to be automatically added to my site. I wanted to keep the blog on my own domain. I was able to automatically install WordPress in about 30 seconds. Then upgrading to the latest version took less than 5 minutes. I'm pretty sure there's a Firefox plugin for WordPress too.