Your new Printing Press
Now that you realize a blog requires writing content, it's time to set up that first blog. The easiest way start is a combination of blogspot and Google's Blogger.com. Blogspot offers free hosting, and blogger.com offers the interface that sets up the pages.
First, you have to set up your blog disk space by registering with blogspot. Then hop on over to www.blogger.com to set up the blog template and post away.
It is nearly painless. The templates are pre-configured, and the post editor interface is no more complicated that a word processor. There is a straightforward set of "help" instructions, and you can choose whether you will be the only editor, or whether you are a group of friends will share the daunting day to day of creating interesting content.
If you prefer to put the blog on your own site, you can skip the blogspot registration. Instead, set up a restricted access folder on your site, and give it a separate ftp password. If you don't know how, ask your ISP. The separate password lets you keep your main site password private, and limits posts to the blog folder, not to your entire site.
There is other software for creating blogs, but blogger.com's interface is an easy way to start. John Breslin (AKA Cloud) (Galway, Ireland, Co-founder of Ireland's largest bulletin board community) has some statistics for the blog engine software prevalent in his community. Blogger is first, followed by Wordpress.
Wordpress is a free blog software package that you set up on your own site. Where as blogger.com handles all the passwords, comments, archives updates, back pages and provides templates to simplify the process, when you go to install Wordpress or similar packages, you will be faced with the mechanics of setting up the php & msql that manage the visitor registrations.
But to start with, all you have to do is try it out for free. Be sure that you spell blogger carefully. Yahoo just happens to have a site registered with a similar name, spelled with one g. I wonder if they realize that it may confuse some people?
First, you have to set up your blog disk space by registering with blogspot. Then hop on over to www.blogger.com to set up the blog template and post away.
It is nearly painless. The templates are pre-configured, and the post editor interface is no more complicated that a word processor. There is a straightforward set of "help" instructions, and you can choose whether you will be the only editor, or whether you are a group of friends will share the daunting day to day of creating interesting content.
If you prefer to put the blog on your own site, you can skip the blogspot registration. Instead, set up a restricted access folder on your site, and give it a separate ftp password. If you don't know how, ask your ISP. The separate password lets you keep your main site password private, and limits posts to the blog folder, not to your entire site.
There is other software for creating blogs, but blogger.com's interface is an easy way to start. John Breslin (AKA Cloud) (Galway, Ireland, Co-founder of Ireland's largest bulletin board community) has some statistics for the blog engine software prevalent in his community. Blogger is first, followed by Wordpress.
Wordpress is a free blog software package that you set up on your own site. Where as blogger.com handles all the passwords, comments, archives updates, back pages and provides templates to simplify the process, when you go to install Wordpress or similar packages, you will be faced with the mechanics of setting up the php & msql that manage the visitor registrations.
But to start with, all you have to do is try it out for free. Be sure that you spell blogger carefully. Yahoo just happens to have a site registered with a similar name, spelled with one g. I wonder if they realize that it may confuse some people?
posted by jbell at
10:10 AM
<< Home