[X-Newbies] Blog and Wiki newbie.

[J]

I agree with Tony.
I like Typepad as well.

Most of the sites I set up for taxpayer groups and candidates and  
legislators have a
static section for the information that doesn't change and then non- 
web savvy owners can post their own material to the blog section  
without having to know how to code.

Otherwise I could not keep up with all those websites myself...


On Jan 14, 2007, at 11:36 PM, Tony Johansen wrote:

> On 15/1/2007 8:08 AM, "Brian Durant" <globetrotterdk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I would like to setup some sort of blog or wiki, preferably on one of
>> my own domains, but I need some advice, links, HowTo, books at  
>> Amazon,
>> etc. to figure out what and how to create one. I would like to create
>> one in connection with a business I am starting, so it needs to look
>> nice enough not to scare customers away ;-)
>
> There is a vast difference between blog and wiki. So first you need to
> decide which to go for. Blogs well done are fine for most  
> circumstances and
> are easier so I would advise blog. Wiki you would use if you really  
> need
> significant customer interaction on the site.
>
> 2nd: free or pay? Like with anything you get what you pay for.  
> Blogger.com
> is free for example and a lot of people like them. Personally I  
> find them
> too limited and their templates are the most boring on the planet.
> I use    http://www.typepad.com/    It has the balance between  
> powerful,
> flexible, looks great, value, etc that suits me. And they have  
> excellent
> online manual resources that makes everything simple, yet you can  
> easily add
> photo albums, widgets etc.
>
> A third choice open to you if you run Tiger, is to make sure you have
> Apple's iWeb and use that. It is designed to be easiest to use with  
> a .Mac
> account, but there are ways of getting it onto your own hosted web  
> space.
> Iweb demo's I have seen show it to be easy to use and looks cool.
>
> With all of these it is best for business to have the blog on your own
> domain name because the web address can be simpler and easier for your
> customers to use. TypePad makes that process relatively easy to do,  
> and are
> helpful at every step incidentally. I have not used iWeb myself, so  
> can't
> comment on their helpfulness, nor the flexibility of the programme.
>
> Blogs work well, but I find a static web site works better on the  
> web in
> terms of the search engines. An ideal world is to have a static web  
> site
> with an embedded blog that takes care of news, specials, etc
>
> You may care to look at one of my (too many) TypePad blogs here:
>                    http://www.christmas.blogs.com
>
> Have fun :-) Tony
>
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