Re: Note on blogging

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

I have been using WordPress for over a year now, and am willing to give
anyone a helping
hand, though there is an awful lot you can learn from the
documentation and support forum.
Doug is right about costs--I registered my domain name and bought a year's
worth of hosting for less than some people spend on yarn for one sweater.
And many web hosting services provide a service where WordPress
auto-installs for you.

Kathy

On 10/30/06, Douglas Green <d.green@xplornet.com> wrote:
>
> If you've been thinking of starting a blog, let me suggest you head over
> to
> http://wordpress.com/blog/2006/10/24/domain-mapping-registration/
>
> And sign up for a wordpress blog with your own url - either that or sign
> up
> for your own url and install wordpress (a free download) on it.
>
> The technical reasons for having your own url (search engines find you
> easier etc.) outweight the minimal costs of owning your own url or using
> the
> wordpress system.
>
> I now use wordpress but not on their servers as this link suggests you do.
> I
> registered my url at godaddy.com (for $1.99) and bought a year's worth of
> hosting (sign up manually over the telephone and ask if there's any
> unpublished specials - I got a 20% discount for asking) for my new blog
> (url
> in sig line) and now I'm having a great bit of fun populating it with new
> articles, a newsletter picture contest and comments.
>
> In any case, not that I'm an expert but every bit of advice I read on
> blogging says serious bloggers don't use blogger.com (particularly after
> this weekend when it has been down most of the time). LoL!  I'll be
> phasing
> my blogger.com site out as the other sites come online with google et al.
>
> The wordpress stuff is hot off the press (or almost hot) and certainly
> food
> for thought in the blogging world.
>
> Doug
>
> Doug Green SGF Communications: e-publishing content
> Home: http://www.simplegiftsfarm.com
> Blog  http://www.douggreensgarden.com/wordpress/
>
>
>
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Kathy Purdy
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