Does this blog make me look fat?
Posted on Mar 03, 2008 under Blog Surfing |
I need your advice. Please!
I started blogging in July of last year, with Blogger. Being a nitpicking, anal Virgo, everything had to be perfect from Day 1, which of course it wasn’t! So I fired off some missives to the “Help” function, to which no replies were forthcoming. In a fit of pique, I decided to try out a South African bloghost, iBlog. I moved my few Blogger posts over and found a happy home for the next six months. Then in January iBlog started suffering from serious blogstipation, becoming so slow and often not even allowing me to access my own blog. I joined in the general exodus to Wordpress, and thought that I had finally arrived. Except that Wordpress is so frigging exclusive, it won’t accept most html or support advertisements. I can’t even get a slideshow going!
As you know, I gave up my high-powered corporate job to devote myself fully to healing, getting fit and losing weight. But that means asking my husband for money for every little thing! I would like to earn some money for myself… and I would like to do it online. I’m not interested in selling Herbalife, or Amway, or any other multi-level marketing scheme, or pyramid scheme, or whatever crappy scam is doing the rounds. Fortunately I have stumbled upon a few blogs that actually have good ideas on how to earn money online, but for that I need a less prissy bloghost than Wordpress.
So, where to now? Back to Blogger? I have since figured out the things I couldn’t do before. Or do I make the leap to something like Typepad or whatever at a nominal monthly fee? Think towards the future, when I may be promoting my book, writing about sustainable living, publishing newsletters, and keeping everyone up to date with the doings of my kids, cats and husband, etc? Which would require a more involved setup that I can develop as I go along… I wouldn’t want to move again, you know!
If you are hosted by someone other than Blogger or Wordpress, please let me hear your thoughts… and advice.
March 3rd, 2008 at 2:37 am
Thanks for sharing the beautiful photos of your homeland. I always forget to mention that my friend’s neighbour is originally from South Africa. Next time I see her I’ll have to ask her what city.
Continued success!
March 3rd, 2008 at 4:15 am
I hope someone has good answers for you. I’ve already given you mine
March 3rd, 2008 at 5:53 am
Wordpress will allow ads and videos to be added. We pay a web wizard to do things like this for us. Sometimes these guys will tell you how to do it on your own for next time too.
I tried typepad a few years ago and was lost in complex coding… not sure if it is still like that or not though…
Good luck deciding!
March 3rd, 2008 at 8:45 am
Hi Hanlie!
I am a happy Blogger, but then again I am not interested in advertising. Why not register your own domain name with Joomla? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joomla) Since you might move to a blog at a nominal price, why not host your own site? Joomla is freeware as far as I know. You’d need (unless you are more technically savvy than I am) help with the initial setup. But after that it is easy and very userfriendly to maintain the pages.
Hope you find a happy solution!
(: Pippa
March 3rd, 2008 at 10:48 am
You can do pretty much anything with wordpress if you host it yourself.
I have my blog hosted with Dreamhost and it’s pretty much unlimited space (500 gb of which I use about 15 mb so far) for about $10 a month.
You can give other users a $50 discount if you recommend them so if you visit this link you could get it for about $6 a month. It’s got one click install of wordpress etc. or you could host something like Joomla which was recommended above.
March 3rd, 2008 at 9:34 pm
I have no advice as I own my own server space and get my hosting through http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/ I use wordpress full program script, not wordpress.com I think you should go with what one works the best for you. I find that blogger has more options but is down more then wordpress.com but its been years and years since I used blogger and I only set up a few accounts for people on wordpress.com , never used it myself.
Good luck!!
*huggles*
=0)
March 4th, 2008 at 7:16 am
Im a total ludite when it comes to anything bloggy - other than to just type!
I know, no help whatsoever.. but I wish you luck in all of this.
March 8th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
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