Choosing the right blogging software

Posted by admin 18 Nov, 2009

How to choose the right blogging software
Before you start blogging, you need to to ask yourself the following before you decide on what software you use.
1) What are your objectives?
Are you:
- blogging for fun or for $?
- will you need much space to store photos/video content etc?
- do you want a simple blog [...]

How to choose the right blogging software

Before you start blogging, you need to to ask yourself the following before you decide on what software you use.

1) What are your objectives?

Are you:
- blogging for fun or for $?
- will you need much space to store photos/video content etc?
- do you want a simple blog or do you want to grow it into something which may require additional functionality? e.g. forums, photo album etc

2) Choosing the right blogging software

The best blogging software I know of is:
- wordpress.com (free version-no domain name required) and wordpress.org (domain name required but this offers you more flexiblility)
- blogger.com
- weebly

Depending on your needs, the blogging software you choose will differ. If you need something really simple – e.g. a personal blog or a simple site which doesn’t need much tweaking, then Blogger or Weebly are probably better. But, if you want to do more with your site than just blog, Wordpress offers the most flexibility and there are a bunch of resources available for free which make it easy to add more functionality to your site.

The free version of Wordpress is very good and has a huge number of free themes and you can literally get a blog up and running in a matter of minutes. Google also likes it and your blogs are pinged to others in the Wordpress community which means you get traffic to your site fairly quickly. Wordpress also has a pretty cool stats program which gives you a good breakdown of your users. The downside is you do not have your own domain name which means you are limited in terms of functionality.

For the purpose of this site I will focus on Wordpress because it is my blogging software of choice.

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