Re: Note on blogging

**"Kathy Purdy" k*@gmail.com**

I have written to Anne privately to help her with her chmod question, but I
wanted to address the whole blog/website question a bit more.

A blog is just a specialized kind of website. The very first blogs were
created by hand coding html documents and uploading them to a web server.
Blogging software automates this process, so the blogger can focus on
writing. With some types of blogging software, your blog post is uploaded to
the blog software's servers (computers). This is true of Blogger and
Typepad. WordPress offers you both choices. They will host your blog on
Wordpress.com, or you can download the software from WordPress.org and
upload and install it to server space that you rent from a host. This is
what Doug and I do. Wordpress.com is easier but less flexible.

Doug advises hiring someone to deal with website difficulties. He may be
generating enough income to pay someone else to do his website dirty work,
but I certainly am not. However, I have a secret weapon that he apparently
lacks: geeky children (young adults, really) who still live at home and are
available for questioning at a moment's notice. So often, what seemed like
an insurmountable obstacle was answered with a "oh, all's you've got to do
is this" and with a couple of mouse clicks I had another problem solved.

You may not have geeks living at home, but there might be one in your
neighborhood willing to help, or perhaps a phone call to the high school
computer teacher will help you locate volunteer or paid help. Sometimes all
that is needed is someone to explain terminology and walk you through the
steps the first time. Or you may need to hire someone to set things up, but
after that you can take care of it yourself. There are many ways to go about
it.

WordPress provides enough information through their Codex (documentation)
and Support Forum (user-to-user technical support) that you can teach
yourself--it just takes more time. And, as Doug pointed out, time is money,
and you have to balance the costs involved.

Kathy

On 11/2/06, Anne Phelan <acphelan@earthlink.net> wrote:
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> So I wondered if there are advantages to using blogging
> software that would make it worth my while to get someone
> to help me set it up.
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-- 
Kathy Purdy
Cold Climate Gardening: providing the information you need
to succeed in USDA Hardiness Zones 4 and colder.
http://www.coldclimategardening.com
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