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Choosing a Blogging Platform
Should you host your own blog? If so (or not) what are your options and why should you choose one over another?
These are common questions from people who are considering getting into blogging for business or something beyond blogging on their MySpace or LiveJournal account.
Based on my experience, here is how I'd help guide someone to the right solution for their needs today:
This will surely change over time as new players enter the market, current players slip behind, etc. so please keep in mind that the recs here represent here and now and will probably look ridiculous in a year or two .
But, with that in mind, the important thing to remember is that any new blog platform will have to make it easy for currently bloggers to transfer their blogs if they hope to gain an audience. If that's the case, most of the blog platforms mentioned in this diagram should be transferable. Stay away from MySpace if you think you'll ever want to republish your posts somewhere else.
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2. Posted by: Ed Kohler on May 12, 2008 3:57 PM:
Awesome add-ons, PXLated.
3. Posted by: Jeff Deitch on May 13, 2008 12:48 AM:
Dude, you need to check out OmniGraffle for your flow charts.
http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/OmniGraffle/
:)
4. Posted by: Ed Kohler on May 13, 2008 4:37 PM:
Jeff, it hurts me when you knock my artwork. :-)
5. Posted by: Bishop James I Feel God Brown from http://ifeelgod.org on May 15, 2008 3:38 PM:
Ed and Pixlated,
Good Good Good!!!
I might add the following. I have found the Wordpress appears to have the swagger and the plugins to help propel a good blog into a popular blog.
I use several differing platforms but when I created the http://www.fromchurch.com I was stunned when I had to increase my bandwidth limit because my traffic started coming in and I did not understand why.
I had done virtually nothing save post a couple of articles and wham bam - I had traffic.
Later, I found that since I had not kept up with site security updates, I had been slapped with a malicious site tag by google which dried up all the traffic, but overall the performance and response of this self hosted blog has been superior to any of the other platforms I have tried.
As a result, we are recommending wordpress installed by cpanel with the autoupdate plugin installed for all of the Pastors we work with. We believe blogging is an important element in ministry.
Thanks again for the article
btw pxlated, is there a good opensource or freeware windows diagram tool?
In Him,
JMb
6. Posted by: Kyle LeNeau on May 20, 2008 10:23 PM:
Have you ever looked at Graffiti CMS @ graffiticms.com. Is is written in .Net and has the moto of convention over configuration. Also an early competitor to wordpress.
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1. Posted by: PXLated on May 12, 2008 12:57 PM:
Blogging/CMS...Always a hot topic. Off the top I would add some things...No particular order...
1) Open Source or not (seems to be a religious thing)?
2) Lot's of plugins - Does it require them to be functional or are the features already built-in?
3) Is strictly for blogging or can also power a complete site (CMS)?
4) Can expansions be easily integrated (modules/etc) (Forum, Wiki, Gallery, etc)?
5) Need heavy duty specialists (programmers/coders) to actually implement beyond initial install features or can your average joe blow designer/developer do it?
6) Need reliable, quick tech support?
7) Is it secure or hackable?
I'll stop there as it could go on for almost ever :-)