Before we do anything else to get your blog started, you need to decide which blog software you want to use. There are several different blog software options out there, and happily all of them are free. I want to stress that choosing the software for your blog is something you really, really want to do right the first time. Having to switch your entire blog over to a different software is a huge pain to go through – and you don’t want to risk choosing a software without support that crashes and loses your entire site!
The things you want to look for in your blog software are: supported (with regular updates), reliable, stable, easy an intuitive to use, and flexible enough to cover anything that you’ll want to do with your blog.
In the blogging world on the internet, there is one very clear leading blog software that is the most flexible, and most used: Wordpress. Wordpress both heavily supported and completely free.
Wordpress
Wordpress (www.wordpress.org) is the leading blog software on the web today. It is both free and heavily supported, with updates released regularly. Wordpress is tremendously flexible and expandable, and because it is open source there’s a huge community of people who create (free) addons that you can use to easily expand the capabilities of your blog.
I’ve used many different kinds of blog software, and I unhesitantly recommend Wordpress as the best blog software by far available out there. This site that you’re reading now is a Wordpress blog, and I have several others. Don’t start with something else and then have to go through the hassle of having to move your whole blog to a different software down the line.
Ultimately there’s a reason that Wordpress is the most popular blogging software on the web. And for the low price of free, there’s no reason not to use it.
Why Not Blogger?
Blogger (www.blogger.com) is a free software owned by Google, and is also pretty popular right now. The main advantage of Blogger is that they will host your blog for you. Blogger is popular among first time bloggers and people who just have a personal blog (as opposed to a business, writing column, etc.) Blogger does have several disadvantages, cheifly:
- You do not have your own domain name. Instead your blog will be at http://yourname.blogspot.com. In addition to being harder to remember, it looks unprofessional.
- Blogger is just not as flexible or powerful as Wordpress. The majority of people who use Blogger eventually move on to Wordpress, and transferring your entire blog to a new software is a huge pain.
18 Responses
September 3rd, 2009 at 12:50 pm
Your so right. Wordpress is the only way to go for making your blog. Had a blogger site and it was awful lol
September 3rd, 2009 at 12:57 pm
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September 8th, 2009 at 12:37 pm
Not only is Wordpress easier to use and have more options than Blogger (or God help you if you try to use anything else) but Wordpress is actually updated more often and doesn’t have some of the security holes that Blogger does.
There’s something to be said for a community of thousands of developers. Even though they’re all working for free, they still manage to get more work done than the paid Google employees!
September 14th, 2009 at 11:11 am
Wordpress is the only option for a blog imho, blogger shouldn’t even be mentioned.
September 17th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
I agree that wordress is the way to go if you want to have a blog for any length of time. If you’re just making something for a month or two Blogger is just fine though
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