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Yep, there are lots of them out there. wordpress, typepad, bbblog, etc.
In my opinion, wordpress (available for free at wordpress.org) is the best of the bunch.
Rodney, can you explain why you prefer WordPress? I added Yahoo 360, but it sounds like they will be exporting everyone to a more intregrated type of thing down the road. I am kinda old school, so I am still hazy on the whole blog thang.
Part of the reason I like Wordpress comes down essentially to it being what everybody else likes. The implications of which are that it's strongly supported, has plenty of third party content available for it, is supported by most webhosts, is a familiar platform to any readers, etc. etc.
It just works. I'm not using it to any kind of advanced level, but it does everything I want it to, does it very easily, and looks good while doing it. So while I don't necessarily have high standards for blog software, Wordpress easily does the job.
Part of the reason I like Wordpress comes down essentially to it being what everybody else likes. The implications of which are that it's strongly supported, has plenty of third party content available for it, is supported by most webhosts, is a familiar platform to any readers, etc. etc.
It just works. I'm not using it to any kind of advanced level, but it does everything I want it to, does it very easily, and looks good while doing it. So while I don't necessarily have high standards for blog software, Wordpress easily does the job.
Lewis, and Rodney ... would you mind sharing a link to your blog/s, or any nice blog using WordPress, so I can an idea of how these are presented?
Rodney, can you explain why you prefer WordPress? I added Yahoo 360, but it sounds like they will be exporting everyone to a more intregrated type of thing down the road. I am kinda old school, so I am still hazy on the whole blog thang.
Wordpress is very easy to install on a website and use, it's very popular (meaning it has a very large community support base), it has a lot of features that you need and lots of different layouts that can be found for free that people have created.
Plus, like Solmu says, it just works
In my opinion, wordpress is like the standard for having a blog on your site. They also have a free hosted blog solution at wordpress.com if you don't want to do all the install stuff yourself.
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Lewis, and Rodney ... would you mind sharing a link to your blog/s, or any nice blog using WordPress, so I can an idea of how these are presented?
Because of our no self promotion rules, we can't share links to our sites in threads, but if you search google for wordpress blog or "powered by wordpress", you'll see literally 1000's of them. There's no one way to set it up.
If you search for "wordpres themes" or "wordpress templates", you'll see all kinds of free layouts that you can use.
wordpress is the successor to b2.. and I'm guessing b2evolution is a offshoot of b2 done after development was stopped. And to answer your last question, wordpress is quite easy to integrate with existing sites.
wordpress is the successor to b2.. and I'm guessing b2evolution is a offshoot of b2 done after development was stopped. And to answer your last question, wordpress is quite easy to integrate with existing sites.
Since you seem to be familiar with both B2 and WordPress, which do you think is better?
To be honest, the only reason I know about B2 is because it was a 1 button install type thing from my webhost.. but it installed itself to some wonky directory (my hosts problem, not a fault of B2). Then when I went looking for the install package for B2 I found that they'd switched development to wordpress and I just grabbed that instead. So I really can't give you any good reason why one would be better than the other... except maybe, as mentioned, you'll be able to find more resources online for wordpress since it is a very popular package.
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