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In the first part of building your website for free I talked about how to get your domain and host a simple website. In this article. I’ve decided to cover only Blogs in this article and cover hosting and mail lists in my next one.
One of our featured Articles this week is about How To Blog. It’s a great resource for the operation and writing part of your blog and mentions some blog software. My entry will center around software and services to run your blog. Don’t have time? Micro-blog with Twitter. A couple startups I know use it to keep their customers and supporters up to date. So does LWL
Everyone has one. There are many Software As a Service (SaaS) websites out there that provide blog software. You can easily setup your own blog on any of those. I’ve attached a non-comprehensive list of blog platforms below.
The first thing you’ll want to decide is if you want to just link your existing website to one of these services or run the software yourself. The advantages of linking to the service is that you don’t have to do almost anything. You can setup your blog at something like http://blogspot.com/SusanCosmetics instantly. You can edit the navigation on your own site to link to it. What you lose is some slight branding and complete flexibility. Some services let you create a sub-domain similar to what I covered in my last post.
If you choose to run your own blog software, I’m going to assume that you or someone on your team knows what you are doing. Basically you’ll have to have a place to install the blog. This means you’ll have website hosting with a database running such as MySQL. If you don’t know what I’m talking about run your blog as a service. Wordpress,Typepad, and Movable Type are all great blog platforms you can run yourself.
These are listed in no particular order. Wordpress and Typepad are the most extensible:
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