Which Online Blogging Platform Should I Use?
An online blogging platform is the software you use to publish your content to the web. Just as you might have a choice about which word processor or web browser to use, there are also a range of different online blogging platforms available to you.
Some are free, while others will cost you a monthly or yearly subscription. Some are hosted online for you, while others require you to host them on your own web server. Some are meant for individual blogging dome others for group publishing o to create small networks of bloggers.
So which one is likely to suit you best?
Hosted Blogging Platforms
By far the easiest way to get started is a hosted blogging platform. The most popular choices here are Blogger.com and WordPress.com. Both of these services are free to use, and you can start a blog very easily, with a minimum of setup.
Darren Rowse writes about hosted solutions:
"This is the type of blog that many bloggers start out with, simply because they are easy and usually quite cheap (if not free). Probably the most popular of these systems is Blogger.com - but there are others like WordPress.com and Live Spaces. TypePad also runs hosted blogs - although have the option to go with a type of standalone option also through remote hosting."
If you aren't sure about blogging and want to give it a try first, these are nice solutions that will provide you with plenty of options as to how your blog looks and displays your text.
The big downside with these free blogging platforms - TypePad excluded, which is a paid service - is that you can't use your own domain name.
So, instead of having masternewmedia.org, for instance, if you were using Blogger, your website address would read masternewmedia.blogspot.com. While this won't bother some people, and it is possible to hide, professional users might prefer to have their blog hosted at their own domain.
Should you decide to go ahead, you'll find plenty of help in getting started. Here, for instance is a video from Google to get you started with Blogger.com:
Link:
http://www.masternewmedia.org/indepe...#ixzz10N6dSYpF